AGED 101.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20194, 3 January 1934, Page 9

AGED 101.

Kaiapoi Woman Passes the Century. ONE OF SIXTEEN CHILDREN. The one hundred and first birthday of Mrs Elizabeth Dickie, of Peraki Street, Kaiapoi, coincided with the start of the New Year, for Mrs Dickie was born in Aberdeenshire. Scotland, on Januay 1. 1833. Mrs Dickie, who was Miss Elizabeth Begg before her marriage, came to New Zealand as a young married woman and went with her husband to his first work in the colony at Mr White’s Flaxton farm. Since that time Mrs Dickie has not lived beyond three miles from the Kaiapoi Post Office. There were four children of the marriage, Isabella, Joseph. John and William, of whom Mr John Dickie, of Ohoka Road, is the only survivor. The family lived in a cottage in Peraki Street for twentyseven years after leaving Coutts Island in 1904, and since 1931 Mrs Dickie has resided with Mrs A. D. Kane. Mrs Dickie had seven sisters and eight brothers, and was a twin. Her sight and hearing are good and she can remember very well incidents of her early life in Scotland. There are eighteen grandchildren and forty-one great-grand-children.