PONY'S LONGEVITY
DEATH AT 43 YEARS REMARKABLE RECORD (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. After reaching the remarkable age of 43, a pony which had good claims to be called a nota'ble in Auckland, his died at the home of his owner, Miss Thorald Clerk, Bassett road, Remuera. For years this pony, known variously as William Rufus, Rufte and Rufus had defied the ordinary longevity laws of his kind, and had far outstripped the age at which even old horses usually die. One of several records which he seems to have established is that he had lived through the reigns of five kings, and another was that, instead of seeing children who had first ridden him merely grow up, he had stayed with them into middle age.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 13
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127PONY'S LONGEVITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19694, 28 July 1938, Page 13
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