Tt was while Mr Alan C. Browne, the English artist, was camped at the Aylmer Bivouac at the head of the Franz Josef Glazier that he discovered the extreme methods adopted by one man to keep warm. Tn the man’s absence one day lie made the bunk, and to his surprise found that besides sleeping with a big woollen sweater over all his day clothes, which were considerable, his bunk yielded two big, soft mattresses, three pillows, a kapok-filled eiderdown, a tent fly-sheet eight feet square, two grey blankets stitched together to form a- sleepingbag and seven grey blankets on the top of that! And still ho complained of the cold. Entries for the Kaponga Jersey Cattle Club’s annual bull fair, to be held on October 7, close to-morrow at noon. Woods' Qrnn-T Peppermint Cure, first J ild for coughs, colds, influenza.—Advt
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 8
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142Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 23 August 1935, Page 8
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