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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 9 June 1923, Page 11

A Waiigamu grocer remarked to a reporter that the cheapening of the price of meat had a material effect in curtailing the sales of bacon locally (.states the local Chronicle). Usually the demand for bacon is constant, but latterly it has only been intermittent. Many things occur in human experience which are difficult to explain. Among these are coincidences, which give most strange results. A wellknown company in Dunedin received in its letter-box a fortnight ago a letter from an Australian company, and attached to the envelope by the mucilage was another envelops addressed to a lady in. Sydney containing, presumably, a letter for her. The latter envelope, which had escaped the attention of the i^ostal officials both in Australia "and in New Zealand, was returned by the company by letter to the post office in Dunedin, whi"h returned it to Sydney, and received advice from Australia that the wronglydelivered letter had safely reached the addressee. The local post office advised the. company to that effect. Now for the coincidence (states the Dunedin Star). The envelone from the nost of-

fice to the company had attached to it (in exactly the same way by the mucilage) another letter from the post offre with the address of a Dnnedin lady. It is strange that this double form of correspondence on the subject j of the previous double correspondence should have also escaped the attention of ihe Postal Department. One of the staff of the local company made the humorous comment: "It is to Tie hoped that this does not indicate that a form of mail and fee-mail correspondence is growing up." Mr. W. Herbert, who set out from London on September 27, 1921, to walk round the world, has arrived in Australia. From London he went to Fiance, and walked through Spain, Italy, Egypt, and Africa, then taking steamer to Australia. Ho left Melbourne on May 28 for Sydney. After reaching Brisbane he intends going to China, walking through Japan and India, and then sailing for America. He has five years in which to complete his task. On the completion of his tour, provided that it is within the , time limit, he says he will receive I £2000 and an hotel' from a London club, under whose auspices he is walking. tt. • j. i_ i_t":_. u:«~ ~ l,««u ~~J^>.

the title of "Humanity," giving an account of his experiences.