A Link With the Mother Country
PUKEKOHE AUTHOR’S BOOK “MAN, AND THE HOUSEFLY” A BIRMINGHAM TRIBUTE dialing I hat Mr D. McGready Armsi rung*'s flunk. "Mali, and Dm Housefly.” hud recently’ been acquired by 11m rrfereime library of Birmingham, England. Ihe “Birmingham Mail” in ils issue of January b, poiuls oul Dial Dm acquisilion of Die book is of special inleresl lo its readers. "Since Dm author personifies a link between this r• ily and Die New Zealand town of Pukekohe. as Mr McGready Armstrong's grandfather al one lime was a citizen of Birmingham.” The “Birmingham Mail” I lien goes on to review Dm book in very generous forms, poinling out among many oilier filings Dial Dm work “embodies something like a generation of observation and research and that it recently had the honour of being common led upon and accepted by His Majesty the King.”
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Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 20, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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146A Link With the Mother Country Franklin Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 20, 21 February 1940, Page 5
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