101ST BIRTHDAY
MR. JOB HUMPHRIES REMEMBERS MANY WARS An Auckland centenarian, Mr. Job Humphries, of Alford Street, Avondale, will celebrate his 101st birthday on Friday. Since he attained the century Mr. Humphries has had to give up tending his garden and going for short walks in the neighbourhood of his home, but otherwise he enjoys good health and his only disability is deafness, which first troubled him less than three years ago.
He is a keen reader of the newspapers, and has been following the news of Japanese aggression with great interest. "This is going to be a bad Christmas for many people all over the world," he said yesterday. f"I can remember many wars. The first one was the Crimean War, nearly 90 years ago. I saw Miss Nightingale when I was a bov just after the war was over." Mr. Humphries has been a resident of Auckland since he arrived with his late wife in the ship City of Auckland in 1872. He worked on the building of the railway line to Onehunga, and for 15 years was employed at the Auckland Mental Hospital, latterly as head attendant. The past year has added two to the number of his great-grand-children, making 28. He has three sons and three daughters living, and there are nine grandchildren.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume 78, Issue 24144, 10 December 1941, Page 9
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