Working in the garden is a joy in itself, so some people aay, but there | are times when the result is a little diScouraging. Take the case of a woman who lives in one of the hill suburbs of Dunedin. She dug industriously for an hour or so, and then went into the tool shed for some lime to scatter over the freshly-turned earth. She gave hey garden a liberal coating of white, and just for luck scattered a little over the newly-mown lawn. That night it rained, as it sometimes does, and next morning when she found time to survey her handiwork it was all she could do to restrain some naughty, unladylike words when she realised that it was not lime that was in the bag, but cement, which had caked into solid lumps. '
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3182, 6 January 1928, Page 5
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