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Birthdays for Centenarians
Not many people live to see their 100th birthday, yet in Gisborne district in the past few week, two residents have completed "the century".
For Mrs Elizabeth Jennings, who came to Gisborne in 1888, the occasion was celebrated in Ward 7 at Cook Hospital. Her husband, the Rev. Edward Jennings, was in that year appointed to the Te Rau College in Cob-den Street, and was later principal of the Waerenga-a-hika College for Maori boys.
Ward 7 turned on a happy party for Mrs Jennings. In this picture Sister Wilson and the Matron, Miss Bunt, hold the beautiful cake made by a member of the hospital staff, Mrs K. McMahon. Others in the picture are Dr. E. M. McLachlan, the surgeon superintendent, Mr W. G. Shiach; Mrs M. Sandlant (grand-daughter) Graham Sandlant (great-grandson), and Mrs Jennings surviving daughters, Mrs I. Fisher and Mrs J. F. Newman.
Cutting the cake
Great-grandsons Graham and Phillip Sandlant proffer birthday greetings.
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(Pictures by Kandid Kamera Kraft)
Mrs Isabella Ford was in right good shape for her 100th birthday party, held at the home of Mrs Caigou, "Fetternear", Ormond, She is seen above at the cake-cutting ceremony with her son, Mr R. W. Ford, of Wainui Beach, and her grandson, Ernest Ford.
Lighting the candles.
Mrs Ford reading her congratulatory telegram from Her Majesty the Queen.
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