LONG LIFE.
A WELLINGTONIAN’S RECORD. NEARING HIS 106TH YEAR. Something approaching a record for longevity has been established by Mr. William White, an inmate of the Wellington Home for the Aged and Needy, who on June 18 will celebrate his 106th birthday, he having been born on the day of the Battle of Waterloo. Thie interesting fact was brought to light at Tuesday’s sitting of the Hospitals Commission, when an official of the home mentioned that one of the inmates (Mr. White) had been in the institution for ten years. Mr. White, who is still in possession of all his faculties, is troubled with rheumatism in his left leg, but otherwise he is fit and well.
About two years ago he expressed a keen desire to go to the West Coast and earn his own living in the coal mines—he considered he was capable of the work—but the home authorities persuaded the old gentleman not to make the trip. Mr. White is one of seven sons of an English stonemason who, during his life, was employed on the work of putting in the foundations of the present Houses of Parliament in London.
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Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 11
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192LONG LIFE. Taranaki Daily News, 7 May 1921, Page 11
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