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Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6672, 27 July 1928, Page 6

An Auckland telegram states that the steamer Waitomo, which is adrift in the Tasman with a broken tail shaft was picked up at ten on Wednesday evening by the Kaitokc and is duo in Auckland on Tuesday morning. The three pupils at the Jubilee Institute for the. Blind, who recently sat for the- Trinity College pianoforte examination in Auckland, have all achieved remarkable success. Miss Lillian Martin gained the Licentiate Teachers’ Diploma, with second place, and Frank Caple and Robert Martin gained the Intermediate Division certificate, with honours, with 8-4 and 83 per cent respectively. All three arc totally blind and learned their music exclusively by means. of the Braille system of raised dots. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.

The' Aorangi sailed at 5.15 p.m. yesterday for Auckland from Sydney. Tlie English Eugby League < footballers are passengers ; ■ "I am going to give our friend the pig a well-deserved advertisement,” said the Governor-General -in his address at.the Now Zealand Farmers' Union conference, at Wellington on Tuesday, when referring to the need of opening up new avenues in the farming industry. “At the Palmerston North Show I was given a side of bacon from an historic pig. He had been in cold storage for six months before being cured, and to that x>ig, and to his breeder, and curer I take oil my hat. It was tho first really good bacon I have tasted since being in this country.” His Excellency added that he did not know why bacon could not be cured”in New Zealand as well as it could bo in England. •