Tho oldest woman in New Zealand, Mrs Frances Webb, celebrated the 103rd anniversary of her birthday in Feilding on Friday, March 2. Mrs Webb is wonderfully active for her great age, is in possession of all her faculties, ' and has a splendid memory. She was born in 1825, 10 years after tho battle of Waterloo, at Silverwell, a few miles from Truro, in the County of Cornwall.' It is a foregone conclusion (says a correspondent of the Auck'and Star) that, there will be a triangular contest for the Waitomo scat at the next election, the Labour Party having decided to put forward a candidate. Mr J. C. Rolleston is the preheat member for Waitomo,
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Otago Witness, Issue 3861, 13 March 1928, Page 31
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