97TH BIRTHDAY
MR, CHRISTOPHER BURTON. EARLY DAYS RECALLED. (“Times-Age" Special.) Mr. Christopher Burton, of Mount Bruce, celebrated his 97th birthday on Sunday. He is in good health and rose at his usual hour at 6.30 o'clock in the morning. He works in his garden all day. Mr. Burton's garden is in a sheltered place in the bush and to get there he walks on a log across a river, holding on to a single wire. Mr. Burton was born in Wisbech. Cambridgeshire, and remembers soldiers going to and returning from the Crimea War. Mr. Burton has made most of tho town clocks in New Zealand. including tho one in Masterton. He said he remembers making a bicycle when he was a boy. In those days the bicycles did not have any pedals and the rider progressed by putting his feet on the road. When Mr. Burton first, went to the Mount Bruce district there were no roads and the rivers had to be forded.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 2
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