HASTINGS RESIDENT 102 YEARS OLD
ARRIVAL IN HAWKE’S BAY IN 1870 (United Press Association) HASTINGS, March 29. Believed to be Hawke’s Bay’s oldest resident, Mr George W. Lines, of Hastings, celebrated his one hundred and second birthday today. He was born at Salford, Bedfordshire, England, and came with his parents to Australia in 1854. He came to Hawke’s Bay in 1870 and worked in a timber mill. The cottage built by Mr Lines when he came to Hastings was then the biggest in the town. It is still in use.
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Southland Times, Issue 23780, 30 March 1939, Page 4
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90HASTINGS RESIDENT 102 YEARS OLD Southland Times, Issue 23780, 30 March 1939, Page 4
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