VENICE’S BID FOR ROMANCE
VENICE. July 25. Tourists in Venice will get free gondola rides. This is the latest move by the gondola men in their battle with the motor launch competition. • Not only do the launches undercut the gondolas, it is claimed, but they sometimes half-drown them with their wash. , , ... Angelo Maddaleea. chairman of the Gondoliers’ Co-Operative, said: ‘Wo shall see this through to the bitter end. After all, what's Venice without a gondola?”
TRIPLET CALVES THRIVING.—TripIet calves two heifers and a bull, were born to a two-year-old pedigree Jorsoy heifer on the farm of Mr. D. Potter Puni. on Wednesday. The calves'a re all thriving.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23024, 15 August 1949, Page 5
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