ROXBURGH SCHEME
Sir, —Your account of the proceedings in the House of Representatives in “The Press” today puts me in mind of an incident that occurred in a Central Otago hotel many years ago. In a room adjoining mine a young mother was having trouble with her infant, who would wake up every half hour or so and announce its existence. At last a feeble voice came through the thin partition: “Oh, God. a woman doesn’t know she’s born util she marries and has a baby.” I’m afraid the authorities will have many sleepless nights when an old man flood roars through those three narrow gorges at Roxburgh.—Yours, etc., OLD TIMER. October 10, 1953.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27169, 13 October 1953, Page 7
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