SEXTON’S ANXIETY
Seventy-eigbt-year-old Mr John Sims, of Westbourne, near Chichester, Sussex, lies ill in a flint-stone cottage in the corner of a cemetery —listening for the chiming of the village church clock half a mile away. He listens carefully, for if the clock fails to strike Mr Sims and his wife may lose their cotlaige. The parish council, who own it, are anxious to take possession. Mr Sims became sexton of the church and the cemetery 41 years ago. A deed dated 1860 entitles him to live in the cemetery cottage rent free on condition that be renders “rent service” by winding and attending the cburcli clock, nearly 100 years old. Only if be fails to keep the clock going can Mr Sims be turned out of the cottage.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22827, 11 March 1936, Page 6
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129SEXTON’S ANXIETY Otago Daily Times, Issue 22827, 11 March 1936, Page 6
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