HALE AT 101 YEARS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19419, 30 August 1926, Page 12

HALE AT 101 YEARS.

OLDEST BYDNEY CLERGYMAN. REV. S. HUNGERFORD'S CAREER. [I'JIOJI • OCft OWN COESMBSPONDfiNT. ] . . SYDNEY. Aw. IS. The older the Be v. Septimus Hungerford grows the younger he feels, he says. No one' could possibly, for iiis yews, be mofe hale and hearty- than this Venerable clergyman who lives at Crernorne, 6ne of the harbour suburbs, and who celebrated .his 101st .birthday last week. He has lived in Sydney all His life and-apart from Church - work—he attends service every Sunday—-takes • a tremendous interest in politics. For" many years he Was proraiHegj In p'Ufelio movements/beiflg associated more than half t ce||Ury ago wjth Bishop Weritworth arid Dr. .<t. 1). Lang. Possessed to a remarkable degr§§ of all his faculties, Mr. Huiigerfofd loves iiSthlng id much as to talk about old times. He has ftOfc much of 'ati opiftian tM fiiaidPliy Of men In politics tioW. He Mi/a ,fn6 standard was very niuCh higher ift the old dSys. He broadcasted this message id politicians on, his birthday• "Be steadfast; work for the State, ilot for ybUrseivfeSj as. so ffiahy 6f you are doing. • You Will gain 110 Ultimate feWafd .from your selfishness." In additiriri to the. ArigHc4ri Clitifch, of which Mr. Hurigendi'd is, of .course, its -oldest minister—it hefed hardly be said that he now lives in retirement—every otlier church associated itself .With the birthday congratulations; .