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SEA JOURNEY TO U.K. AT AGE OF 89 YEARS

The lure of overseas vistas has for one resilient, no bar as for as age is concerned. He is Mr. Howard Jones, well-known in the borough, who celebrated his 89th birthday last week.

Mr. Jones was to leave Levin Today for Auckland whence he is to depart tomorrow in the Ruahine for England on a holiday trip. He will be ac­companied by his daughter, Mrs. W. G. Phillips. They will travel in England and Wales, the length of their stay being not definite. Mr. Jones has made similar trips previously.

Mr. Jones was a teacher in England and came to New Zealand in 1900 by the Papa­roa, the first twin-screw vessel to arrive at the Dominion.

Taught In Levin

He came to Levin 46 years ago and took up a teaching position at the then Levin Dis­trict High School (now the Levin School), under the headmaster, Mr. J. McIntyre, who as Mr. Jones said, was loved by all. Mr. Jones taught at the school for 24 years, be­ing first assistant when he re­tired in 1938. He also taught for about six weeks at the Koputaroa School.

"I taught a good many children to Levin how to swim and I also taught a good many how to behave - with a supple­jack," he added. Commenting that "it's very badly needed these days," he said that his resolution proposing the intro­duction of corporal punishment for criminal offences was adopted by the local and Dominion sections of the New Zealand National Party, but I had been "watered" down due to opposition from other quar­ters.

Wide Interests

Mr. Jones has taken a wide interest in various borough activities. He was for many years secretary of the Horo­whenua Teachers' Institute and was its delegate for about 16 years, to the conferences in Wellington of the New Zealand Educational Institute. He was a vestryman and choir member of St. Mary's Anglican Church, and has been for a period of 50 years, a lay reader for the Church of England, gaining his licence from Bishop Wallis at Wellington in June, 1911.

Mr. Jones was secretary of the Levin Amateur Swimming Club, was secretary of the Levin Bowling Club, of which he is a life member, and for a period of about five years he acted as umpire for cricket, mainly for the Levin Cricket Club. He was the first secretary and honorary organiser for the Levin branch of the National Party.

This clipping came from Dick Denton.

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December 12, 1961