Article image
Article image

BUSINESS NOTICES. To-morrow, at 1.15 p.m., R P Mornssey .and Co. will sell new potatoes, meat, and household furniture At 2 p.m at the High Street shop, the stock in trade, etc., of C. S. Fong. will be sold. Full particulars in our adversing columns. The old saying that love laughs at locksmiths has been proved to be true ,at the Auckland gaol, according to a story told by the Rev. E. C. Budd.at the annual meeting of the Auckland Discharged Prisoners' Aid Society. He stated that a young man when he entered the gaol had no trade, but so applied himself during his incarceration that he was able to set up in business when he was discharged, and, further, had married a. good-looking young woman who was m gaol at the same time as himself and whom he had not previously known. The members of the society were much puzzled as to how the courting could have taken place in the gaol, seeing that the prisoners were kept- strictly apart, and Bishop Averill remarked that it was really unique The Rev. F. R. Jeffreys thought that the man might have been employed to carry the food from the cookhouse to the women's gate, but that did not soive the mystery. Mr. Budd then explained that a piece of soap, which had been hollowed out, was left on the cn'ape'l window, and it was used as the letter box for the billets dmix. t»...._„.. YoiJr ,^._ iw-.t-fc ervine gtom Toothache. 1/6. — Advi.

This article text was automatically generated and may include errors. View the full page to see article in its original form.
Permanent link to this item

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HNS19221016.2.85.3

Bibliographic details

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 8

Word Count
251

Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 8

Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 8