The civic authorities of Manchester have discovered the first mayoral chain and seal in the town clerk’s safe, where it has lain forgotten for 87 years, enclosed in its case. Mrs Ann. Todd, 93-year-old daughter of a Hampshire farmer, has celebrated her last birthday by an orgy of speed. One of her great-great-grand-nephews discovered that she hankered for a trip in an aeroplane. So she travelled to Southampton in a car at 70 m.p.h., flew over the Hampshire fields at 130 m.p.h., and finally made a 30 m.p.h. dash down Southampton Water in a speedboat.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 June 1938, Page 5
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