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LITTLE OLD LADIES IN THE SOUTH

Radio Listeners In Dunedin Are Proud Of Their Two Centenarians

THEYRE old, mighty old, in ". the south. With two centenarians in its midst, Dunedin may well feel proud. Famous for her last year’s broadcast .o listeners from 4YA, Mrs. Emma Harries, of South Dunedin, sets a Dominion age record of more than i104 years. Coming up closely behind her, is Dunedin’s Mrs. Louisa Reason. She reached 101 on Christmas Day. "wwWhen the "Record" went along ts see how Mrs. Reason felt on adding the first year of her second century to her tally, it found she Fal

had taken up residence in the Company’s Bay Health Camp, promoted through the activities of the Radio Church. She is still an active old lady, with a clear mind. When the "Record" spoke to her at the age

of 100 she was quite confident she would last "quite a while yet." Quite sprightly, during the year she visited 4ZB to see Peter, who had sung to her previously. Until a few years ago, Mrs. Reason lived in a sod cottago near Kartigi, North Otago, on the Main South Road. She and her first husband landed at Moeraki, and set up in tents in a swampy and inhospitable country long before roads or railways were thought of, She was for a fong time a familiar figure, standing in the doorway of her sunbathed sod cottage. I was removed . to straighten a dangerous motoring road. She went to live in Dunedin with her son by her first marriage. Soon after her hundredth birthday she went to Company’s Bay, to the Health Camp,

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Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 5

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LITTLE OLD LADIES IN THE SOUTH Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 5

LITTLE OLD LADIES IN THE SOUTH Radio Record, Volume XII, Issue 30, 6 January 1939, Page 5

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