Centenarians and Tholr Progeny.— The London Sunday Times says:—Mr Thomas hi gov has died at Wellington. New Zealand, “at the asc of 104, leaving nearly a hundred descendants.” The feat of matching one’s years with one’s progeny is easier as one gets beyond the thrcc-score-and-tcn. The septuagenarian can expect only n handful of grand-children, hut in Biblical days he would have been thought, a slack centenarian whose descendants did not run to three figures.
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Waikato Times, Volume 117, Issue 19604, 17 June 1935, Page 7
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