MODERN NOAH

Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21214, 10 September 1940, Page 8

MODERN NOAH

WORKS 10 HOURS A DAY (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON, July 26 On a farm by the South Downs at Southwick, Sussex, 96-year-old Noah Parsons is working ten hours a day—because he wishes to live to be a centenarian, states the Evening Standard. He has worked for so long—B9 years to be exact—that he has been warned that if he stops now it will j be the end of him. Six years ago he gave up work, but immediately he became seriously J ill, and he nearly died. So when he j recovered he returned to work, and i he has been as fii as a fiddle ever ■ since Noah Parsons’s family have been ; farmeis since the reign of George j II His “Boss” is 88 “Old Noah, ’ as he is called in the j district, manages more than three | acres of land, doing all the digging, i hoeing and other manual work him- j self. His “boss,” 88-year-old Mr A. j Upton, became ill some time ago, so Noah has taken charge in his place, j Every day he walks nearly four I miles to and from work. He has never been to school, and I is unable to read or write a word. ' “I started at 6d a week,” he told j me, “and worked 15 hours a day for j it. I’m lazy now—just work 10 j hours»» I