NINETY-SIX YEARS OLD
DR. GILES’S LONG CAREER VETERAN O t THE CRIMEA A friend of Florence Nightingale, doctor, army surgeon in the Crimean War, pioneer settler, farmer, golddigger, magistrate, mining warden, newspaper editor, departmental undersecretary and a member of 13 Royal Commissions, Dr. J. Giles, of Auckland, celebrated his 96th birthday yesterday. Dr. Giles was born at Frome, in Somerset. His medical studies in London were interrupted by the Crimean War, for which he enlisted, although he never reached the front being held back for work at the base at Scutari, where he met the famous Florence Nightingale. In 1858 he came to New- Zealand and took up a farm at Mauku. Later he joined the gold rush to Gabriel’s Gully and for a time edited the “New Zealander,” one of Auckland’s early papers. He became a resident magistrate, retiring in 1893 and settling permanently in Auckland.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 14
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147NINETY-SIX YEARS OLD Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 450, 4 September 1928, Page 14
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