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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 21 March 1907, Page 4

ill" ii'om tl, k< ''"U° ,nll,li ' h U "' foll,nviii 0 ii.ont tlio -Munawiitu Herald" It may be also interesting to your rea--1 ..° '°T lhat nvmoutl, ran s ion j jirotiy good account of a«ed persona now living. j milJ . , m , nt j ou y, c following : —.Mr .Julm Veale a"cd 'H Tins geiitlcnian i s to be daily walking about the streets Jlr Nicholas Holding. aged 8!). j| e ; s . [S lively as the. proverbial crickci, and devotes most of liis time to his gal-Jen. Mr Kdward Okey, aged 80. He is senior partner in the linn of Okey, Son and Arnold, ironmonger.-* anil painters. lentil this last montli or so he could be seen with paint piK in hand and ladder on shoulder going to work painting. J£e rtill lakes an interest in the business. 1 saw him the other day with apron on In tiie shop amongst paint pots. We have also .Mr Jiobert Hughes, in his Slith year, who has been a solicitor's clerk for upwards of ■>> years, anil is still one. He does engrossing without file aid of glasses, his sight being remarkably good, and in fact lie has jiev;r used glas-es. Then we have Mr Thomas Olson, aged 82. a very old settler. No one would take this gentleman to be the age lie is on seeing Mm walk so lively about the town. I could go on Adding to the list of aged persona in New Plymouth, but I think the few noted will give a good impression of the healthy portion of New Zealand we are located in.' 1 The editor of the "Herald" appends the following : —"We I hank our correspondent for tlie inIcresting particulars of New Plymouth's iifand old men. We are sure the "old identities" in this district will read the details with pleasure. Our wish is that they may all be spared to see a century out without physical suffering. Hod bless (lie grand old pioneers, whose st>'ps are now feeble and whose liair lias grown white with the of many winter-;."