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Evening Post, Volume LXXVI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 3

The Calendar j men. | Cues. | Ktol ] Char. | ?ri. | Sat. very clearSy, and few words yfijl\^ ya/C*^ i\9 JL i R\J i>r ; of comment are needed. ~~ ' — — — -jTS — t-t Over nine weeks have J^i // P -«S F A T&O ;k 1 «^P^ passed since the opening _______ _»__»___, ______»_. _ __ ' *yr>* *s^ of the Subscription List in Subscription List \ Closes, ] New Zealand — 56 working ' ■"'■"" """■■■ lll v days on any one of which, # JErrl by the payment of 7/ 6 , you might have and " mo <krn,» SH or according to variopg secured a copyof the Historians' History. " at^> no existence except as a-comenieoce , r j j_ ' -i i c j m the make up of the books. To read history'as • i o-dlay there remain but the four days a „,i^T /> „•,,,,,., L . , J J a whole is to double the interest of each part and"" of this, and the first four of next, incalculably to broaden the outlook. week upon which it is still possible to One of the best general descriptions of The . send in your subscription. 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