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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVII, Issue 4990, 21 June 1926, Page 2

First aid for coughs, col dp, and influenza. Wood’s Great Peppermint Cure.

To wait for 12 hours in a queue for a play is not, at the best of times, a very amicable pastime, let alone in wet weather. Yet there were quite a few PaJmerstonians who waited so long Tor the opening of the pit door for Pavlova,. The waiters, however, met with a good Samaritan in Mr H. E. Bennett, who not only provided shelter from the rain, but gave them a refreshing cup of tea. Mr Bennett's action was acknowledged by three cheers.

Two opossums climbed up one of the Southland Electric Power Board’s poles at Pukerau, between 11.30 p.m. and midnight one Sunday recently, says the Southland Times, and set out to satisfy their aerobatic propensities by climbing along the wires. As the opossums came into contact with each other a circuit forpiedAs they received the shock the opossums gave a wild sqtieal, which aroused some o'f the residents. On looking out, they were surprised to see showers of sparks coming from the wires, and were at a loss to understand what was happening. As a result of the opossums’ excursion a, fuse at the substation at Gore wa.s blown out, and the power between Gore and Pukerau had to be cut off while repairs were effected.

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