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The bow tie, it seems, is becoming popular again. Most striking feature of the garb of male passengers aboard the Marine Phoenix, which arrived from San Francisco, was the prominence of bow ties, says the Auckland Star. Young men, middle-aged men and elderly men all sported “the bow,” which had its heyday many years ago. * * t. * *
Mr Lockington, the National Party candidate, had a number of adjectives by which to describe the Government, in his address in the Regent Theatre at Greymouth last evening, but as far as the audience was concerned there were two which “hit the mark” —“this squander Government” and they could be well named the tourist Government.” Raymond Perce, 35-year-old Vermont farmer, went to England to marry after a courtship by correspondence. He returned to America unmarried and out of pocket 234 dollars passage money. He said the immigration authorities in Britain had refused him permission to land, since his visa said he was going to visit ‘friends,” and he knew Peggy Syrett, 20, of London, only by letters and photographs. $v $ $
Some years ago a wealthy Lyons merchant, M. Nardin, refused to pay an excess postal charge. A court order was procured against him, and he had also to pay a heavy fine. He vowed to get even. The Post Office shall suffer for this,”'he declared, and proceeded to buy a plot of land in an out of the way part of the French Alps. There he built a cottage and installed an old shepherd, in whose name he took out a subscription to a Parisian “daily.” The nearest post office was 25 miles away, and in order to deliver the paper it would have been necessary to engage a special postman. The officials protested, but Nardin, backed by the journal • concerned, insisted that under the terms of its monopoly the Post Office was bound to provide a daily service wherever it was needed. In the end the authorities agreed that if Nardin cancelled his subscription they would refund the excess postal charge and the fine, plus a further sum by way of compensation. —-The Seeker
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Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1947, Page 4
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