It took two Maori girls to teach an impudent Gisborne youth a lesson (remarks the ‘Tieraid 1 ’). The two girls were swimming in (ho Kniti basin, and wore annoyed by offensive remarks and the throwing of small pebbles bv the youth on the hank. The girls wore determined to put an end to this molestation, and while the youth was directing his attention to one of the swimmers, the other, scrambling out of the water, unseen- by the tormentor. camo along behind him. and, lifting him bodily, let him fall into the waler below. As ho was unable to swim, the youth found some difficulty in struggling out, but he eventually regained the bank none the worse, lint a little wiser for his experience. It was a sorry looking figure that left the scene, with the derisive laughter of the swimmers ringing in iiis ears. WOODS’ GREAT PEPPERMINT CURE—J’or Influenza Colds.—AdyU
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 13
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151Page 13 Advertisements Column 1 Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 83, 6 January 1928, Page 13
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