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Grey River Argus, 27 June 1914, Page 2

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WOOL SALES. By Electric Telegraph— Copy right. * (Per Press Association. SYDNEY, June 25. The wool sales, the last of the present series have closel. t Competition was -keen with all buyers for descriptions. The - improvement was chiefly l n faulty sorts. Greasy went to 50. scoured 25-. In a certain home missonary movement every participant was to contribute a shilling that she had earned her self by hard work. The night of the col'ection of the shillings came and various and droli were , the stones of earning the money. One woman had shampooed hair, another had m,ade doughnutbj another had secured newspaper subsciiptions, and^ so on. The chairman turned to a handsome women in the front row. "Now, madam, it is your turn,"' he said. ,"How did you earn your dollar?" "I got it from my husband/ she answeied. ' "Oh !" he said. "From your ".husband? There was no hard work about -that." The woman smiled faintly., "You ' don't know my husband," she said.

A new regulation, under the Post and Telegraph Act (the x Dominion states) prescribes that the printing of additional naAies or designations in the telephone list in connection with the bame number shall Ke charged for at 5s for each additonal entry.

The prophydactic virtureb of golt were lauded by >Dr. R. M. Guan, 0119 of the speakers at a deputation interviewed the Hon. H. D. Bell' this week' in the inteicbts of the Taratah!*Carterton Racing Club, and the dis trict in which it ib located. Dr. Gunn stated that calls at his surgery, since golf started at Carterton, liad (partic"uiarly in t,he case 'of lady patients) sadly diminished, which showed that golf had a. very beneficial effect on the health of the people.

A school committee election conduct ed strictly according- to the^Act has its humorous side. At the Eknwood School Cantrbuiy, on Tuesday aright, householders made a second attempt to elect a school committee, and the chairman (Mr. C E. Salter) followed faithfully the /etter of the law. "Are you satisfied, ladies and gentlemen" he querie-i "that there is nothing- :in this box?" Th^ reply w^s a roar of laughter, tha chairman's "absolutely "no deception" movement being worthy of an expeic conjurer. ,

' Mr. Fred Pirani as' a great reputation througout the country as a worker, and is charactertistic of the- man that; though, he is now compelled^ to nurse of a broken leg for a time he can not lie idle- On Tuesday he had the tlcphone installed by his bedside, and before the morning hed passed he was in communication with the Education Board office at Wanganui, and with otheis with" whom he had to do business (says the Chronicle). Mr Pirani received shoals of telegrams from all parts of the Dominion , sympahtismg with him on the occasion of his recent

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