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About People and Events INCREASED SUGAR PRICE An increase of ten shillings a ton in tlie price of raw and refined sugar aud golden syrup and treacle is announced by’ the Colonial Sugar Refining Company, Ltd., by an advertisement in this issue. The prices for tablet and icing sugar remain unaltered. Improved Railway Chrs. More comfortable passenger carriages will be in use on the WellingtonNew Plymouth express shortly. Renovations on special cars are now being done in the railway workshops, and the new carriages will be more spacious and particularly suited to this long express journey. The new cars will not be as heavy as the de luxe carriages in use on the Main Trunk and Rqtorua lines. Aloft At Early Age. Probably the youngest passenger Sir Charles Kiugsforq Smith has ever taken joy-riding in the Southern Cross is Master David Mayne, aged seven months, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. D. Mayne, of Napier. He spent ten minutes in the air in company with his father. After displaying the keenest interest for five minutes, he began to nod, but his father, who had paid £1 for the ride, kept him awake for the full 10 minutes, so that be would receive his money’s worth.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 105, 27 January 1933, Page 10
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