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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1939, Page 6

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A meeting of all interested and called by the Red Cross Society, will be held in the County Chambers this Wednesday evening at 7.30. Everybody welcome. . Mr Herbert T. Reynolds, whose death at Gisborne, recorded to-day, was a soil of Mr and Mrs Arthur Reynolds, former well known residents of Hokitika. , , • The Olinda (reported sunk by a British warship) traded under the flag of the Hamburg-South America Steam Ship Company, and was formerly named the Hohenstein. She was built at Kiel in 1927 and was of 457 G tons (gross). She carried two decks and was fitted with oil engines, while her dimensions were 349 by 50 by 29 feet. The Olinda was registered at Hamburg. Mr M. Wallace of ‘ Kokatahi, has shown us a lamb monstrosity, given birth to dead after the ewe had delivered, a normal lamb. It lias one head, with two bodies of complete males ..inei'giiijg into'one ‘at the'shoulders, has' #ght- legs, and' two- tails. IncidentallyU he’mentioned that this season so far, he lias had a ewe give -birth to four normal lambs, and six sets of triplets. ; '■

The House of Representatives adjourned last night at 10.23 o’clock until next Tuesday, authority being granted to Select Committees to meet during the recess. The general expectation in the lobbies is that the session will soon reach its close. No major legislation has been announced, and it is likely that a good many of the less important bills which were to have been brought forward will now be dropped. In the circumstances, it would be surprising if the session lasted until the end of the month.