“I always believed that I was born in ISIS, but as no official records of births were kept in New Zealand until 1848 I coni dnot be sure of it,” said Mr. Stephen Westney, at Onehunga, when members of the Bowling Chib presented him with a wallet and silvermounted umbrella in honour of his eighty-first birthday. Tie added that recently an occasion arose when it became necessarj’ to verify the date, and he had fortunately been able to do this through other documents.—Special Correspondent,.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 10
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84Untitled Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 56, 30 November 1926, Page 10
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