Talk:List of oldest people from New Zealand/@comment-26904760-20170325135216

According to her listing on NZ BDM, Kate Smart was born on 4 December 1888, and was therefore 108 years, 211 days at the time of her passing on 3 July 1997. Since the information from NZ BDM is taken from a persons birth/death certificate, i'm inclined to believe that the newspaper mistated the age of Mrs. Smart, as they had done with Mrs. Somerville. There are a few newspaper reports from the early 1990s that corroborate her year of birth being 1888.