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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8867, 30 October 1907, Page 5

Waikouaiti possesses a resident who is a living advertisement for its salubrious climate. Though he came out from England in the "forties," traded between Melbourne and Hobart in the early "fifties," made several whaling voyaces, and sailed New Zealand waters in all kinds jind condition of craft for many years, he has attained a ripe age without even a twinge of rheumatism. When he became too old for the sea he settled in Waikouaiti, and amused himself by clearing some acres of land and digging it over with a spade. Now he gets up at 4 o'clock' every morning, works hard all day, and sits in the evening reviewing his past under "his own vine and fig tree." His one grievance is against steamers, which, he says, have driven sailors from the sea and fish from the harbours.