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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5500, 13 November 1929, Page 2

“I believe that millions’ of future centenarians will be as vigorous in every way as people to-day are at sixty (says Sir Arthur Arbuthnot Lane). These apparent marvels are not far distant, as some people think. The trouble in the past has been that people have failed to take care of the ‘works’ and have allowed the machinery of then’ bodies to wear out long before they were really old. Humans are like motor-cars. Length of life of either depends entirely on the care taken of the ‘works/ and when people take proper care bf themselves we shall soon have them living beyond the hundred-year mark, as the simple living Zulus do. Great age is, of course, is only desirable if life is still worth while. ’ The three-score years and ten of the Bible is a long enough life for a person who has neglected his ‘works.’ Such people are thoroughly worn out, mentally and physically, and "have nothing to live for. But intense educational effort is at last having the desired effect. The younger people are beginning to observe the simple rules of health, and this is being reflected in much longer life than in the bad old' days.”