SIXTY YEARS MARRIED
MR. AND MRS. J. EDWARDS SADDLETREE MANUFACTURING Numerous personal, cabled and telegraphed congratulations, including those of King Edward VI LI., wet* 1 received yesterday by Mr. and Mrs. Jaliez Edwards, of 27 Baildon Road, West Lynn, when they celebrated their diamond wedding. Aged 85 and 83 respectively, Mr. and Mrs. Edwards have a family of seven. There are 13 grandchildren and ono great-grandson.
Practically all his life Mr Edwards has been engaged in the manufacture of saddletrees, and he recalls an interesting history of their production for the chargers used in the FraneoPrussan War of 1870, the Boer War and then in the Great War. in 1877 Mr. Edwards left England for Melbourne, where he was engaged in liis own business until 1902. He then came to Auckland and opened a business. Ho retired in 1925, since when his sons, Messrs. S. L. H. and A. E. Edwards have continued the business.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22539, 2 October 1936, Page 4
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