Two aged and shuffling Celestials approached a Palmerston North resident the other day, and advanced _ the unusual request to "tome with us. Obligingly he followed, and was led to the Post Office, where the Chinese requested that he write a telegram for them. "Well," he acquiesced, "who is it for, and what do you want to say?" • The two conversed in Chinos 3 for a moment, and then one said: "Send it Long Tin Tack, Greymouth; and tell him: 'Your brother die las* night; what you got to say?' "
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Press, Volume LX, Issue 18135, 26 July 1924, Page 7
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