BROTHERS’ RE-UNION
, United Press Association—By Electric Teleg. -ph—Copyright). LONDON, Sept. 29. One of the strangest reunions on record, occurred at Bradford, when bjrthens whose ages aggregate 217. met for the first time. They are: John Pearce Smith, aged 77, Frederick George Smith, 70,- both from Napier, New Zealand, and Arthur Smith, of Bradford, who entertained the brothers at dinner. The family was originally Cornish, but a depression in the tinmining industry resulted in John and Frederick going to sea
14. They became captains and were never home on leave together. Finally they settled down in New Zealand.
Arthur says he is proud that his brothers have clone their share in the colonisation of New Zealand.
JpJin has six married daughters, twenty-two grand-children and four great grand-children. Fred has five married children and several grandchildren. , John was a member of the New Zealand bowling team in 1922. The brothers have arranged the next meeting for 1932.
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 5
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155BROTHERS’ RE-UNION Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1929, Page 5
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