Not to His Taste!
An elderly woman who alleged in the Auckland Supreme Court that her husband ill-treated her was asked by counsel to give an example of the illtreatment. Witness replied: “Well, we had steak and kidney pudding at the beginning of the week, and because I gave him steak and kidney pie at the end of the week he threw a bottle at me and broke my head open.”
Tracked Down A Westport resident received an acknowledgment from a person in the United Kingdom to whom he had sent a food parcel with the sole address, “Salisbury, N.Z.” Evidently the label on one of the tins had given the idea that the sender resided in a town of that name in this Dominion, but although there is a Salisbury in Otago and another one in Canterbury the Post and Telegraph Department showed a lot of intuition by mysteriously tracking the correct address to Westport.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 3
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156Not to His Taste! Greymouth Evening Star, 18 October 1948, Page 3
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