One of New Zealand's oldest women died in a Wellington rest home yesterday.
Agnes Harkins, born in Ayrshire, Scotland, on June 28, 1903, came to New Zealand in 1929 and settled in Petone.
On the eve of her 107th birthday last year, she told The Dominion Post that she neverdrank or smoked but did not know what her secret to old age was apart from simply "I've got nothing against it".
During World War 2, Mrs Harkins worked in the woollen mills in Petone.
Her husband, Archie, died in 1955, and she was survived by daughter Esther Mills and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
On February 11 New Zealand's oldest woman, Doris Mackintosh, died aged 109 at an aged care centre in Christchurch, where she had been for the past 13 years.
Her death came on the same day as Esther Moreland, of Waikanae, who died two weeks short of her 109th birthday.
