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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXXI, Issue 4951, 4 February 1937, Page 4

HERMES BABY TYPEWRITERS. T)E TUXE pORTABLE TYPEWRITERS. Only £l3 13/- New. Why pay more? Full; Guaranteed, ALSO A GOOD SELECTION OP USED MACHINES. Particulars at Chronicle Office, or Eox 91, Hamilton. 980 Some amusement was caused on a Christchurch bowling green when one of the players who had returned from a long visit to one of the islands not far from the equator, told how he was treated with much respect by the inhabitants whenever he went out. He was a big, corpulent man, it was quite true, and of erect stature. That was not, however, the cause of the salutes he got; it was Lacause he wore his bowling coat with its braid around the cuffs of the sleeves, on the top of the pocket, and around the edges of it. They though he was a rajah or a magnate of some kind, and he was hardly ever allowed to walk, which was a fine thing for him when the weather was so hot.