Replying to the toast "Local Bodies" at a complimentary social tendered to the Hon. J. A. Millar at Ell_rslie last night, Mr. Todd (chairman of the Otahuhu Town Board) said he believed the pror per thing to do when they got hold of a Minister was fo ask for something. Otahuhu did not want much. All they wanted was a matter of £200,000 for a canal. "For the Whau Canal," facetiously suggested a voice from the background. ''For the Tamaki Canal, of course," was Mr. Todd's rejoinderA popular hat is a soft felt with round crown. Assumes any shape desired. Auckland's hatter, Geo. Fowlds.—(Ad.) We stai keep miles and miles of ties. Every shape and colour i-oaginabje here. Geo J,
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 9 January 1908, Page 3
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