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Early Cherries & Strawberries The first strawberries brought 5s 6d and cherries realised 4s 6d. Some 128 boxes left Clyde for the market this morning.' A special meeting of the Clyde Branch of the National Party is called for Thursday night. The first wool appraisal is to be held at Dunedin on December 17th. It is announced from Buckinglam Palace that the King will broadcast at 9 p-m. on December 3, on the occasion of the standdown of the Home Guard. The Otago Expansion League has agreed to submit the following as schemes of national im-portance-The Hawea Power & Irrigation Scheme, the Maniototo Irrigation Scheme, the Saw. yers Bay Tunnel, the Haast Pass road and afforestation. The comb-out of Waafs in N.Z. is, according to a North Island paper being directed at transport and telephone personnel, and those actually serving on stations. The rest are likely to remain. Various Norih Island branches of the R.S.A. are considering recommending to the Rehabilitation Board that an expert stock buyer for farms be appointed to buy stock for returned men and save them being compelled to hid against each other at sales, When a motorist was charged at Napier with being intoxicated in charge of a car, part of the Police evidence against him consisted of the fact that on being asked who was New Zealands Prime Minister was, replied‘Walter Nash”- Perhaps it did not occur to the police that he might have been indulging in a sardonic sense of humour.
Predominance of clerical garb among passengers on a Hastings bus, which carried a prominent billboard for the film ‘One foot in Heaven,’intrigued Hawke’s Bay people the other day, when the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand was in session in Hastings. One spectator was cynical. “If those blokes have one foot in Heaven, where is the other foot?” he asked-
The ‘Observer’ says that included in the signatories to a recent petition praying for the release of military defaulters from detention camps are J. C. Beaglehole and A E. C. Hare of Victoria University College; K. McL. Baxter, recently appointed secretary of the Federation of Labour, and P. M. Butler and A. W. Croskery, well known figures in Fmtjr Ciretof,
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Dunstan Times, 27 November 1944, Page 3
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