HAMILTON’S OLDEST MAN

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 7

HAMILTON’S OLDEST MAN

NEARLY 93 YEARS OF AGE From Our Own Correspondent HAMILTON, Tuesday. After living 63 years in Hamilton. Mr. Philip He Quesne will celebrate his 93rd birthday next Mondrwr. After spending his youth at Jersey Channel Islands, where he was born. Mr. Le Quesne lived in London. He was married on Christmas Day. 1559. and on January 4. 1860, he left England in the ship Avon for New Zealand, his wife following him later. He landed at Auckland on May 10, 1860, and has not been out of the Auckland Province since. For six years Mr. Le Quesne conducted a general store in Road. Auckland, and in June, 1866, he came to Hamilton He built a store on the site of the Waikato Hotel, Grey Street. Hamilton East, and was in business there and on another site !in Grey Street, until February, 1902, when he retired. He was Hamilton East’s first postmaster. He still retains the agency of an insurance company, and is the company’s oldest agent in age and service. He built the first Waikato hotel in 1875, and made the bricks himself. • Mrs. Le Quesne died in 1900. There were nine children, of whom two sons and two daughters are alive.