A SMALL WORLD
A photograph taken nearly 42 years ago and printed in the “Auckland Weekly News” has led to a friendship between two men who were in adjacent beds in the Christchurch Hospital recently. When Mr N. W. Cleary, a patient in the men’s surgical ward, found he had nothing to do, he asked his wife to bring him some of the old magazines that they had found while going through an old trunk. One of these magazines, the “Auckland Weekly News” of July 3, 1929, had a special supplement on the Murchison earthquake in that year. Mr Cleary passed the magazine over to his fellow patient, Mr R. Barnes, who opened it to the first page to find a picture of himself. Mr Barnes was one of a group of men working for the Post and Telegraph Department repairing the
communication services disrupted by the earthquake. He had been unaware that the photograph had ever been taken.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32563, 24 March 1971, Page 1
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