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Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 54, 6 March 1935, Page 12

SUITE OF OFFICES TO LET mo LET. Suite of Offices in “Times’ ' Building, Broadway. Reasonable rental. FOE FURTHER PARTICULARS APPLY “TIMES” OFFICE

AUCTION SALES. MOUNSEYS LTD. CLEARING SALE - 17 WORCESTER STREET, TO-DAY, 1.30 P.M. Christmas Pie i t Christmas Pic is tho name of a liam--1 let in Surrey, one of the smallest places | iii England. There is no shop, no post office, no public house. It stands a mile or so olf the Hog’s Back, on the boundary of the parishes of Wauborough and Normandy. Tho name of this little-known corner of Surrey dates back to about 1700, tradition has it. Tho then lord of the manor bricked a muddy spring which gushed out of the ground at the corner of two old lanes, and which supplied the only water adjoining houses could get. To make it easier for tho villagers to get their water ho had a kind of standpipe erected in the shape of a ■j largo stono Christmas pie, from which the water ran out all the year round at a convenient level for filling buckets. : The Christmas Pie gave its name, first to tho corner, later to one of the lanes, and then to a largo farmhouso which was erected near tho spot. Eventually the surrounding neighbourhood became known by it. A few years ago the pie was removed, but the place retains its name. Even tho Post Office recognises Christmas Pie as a place of its own, and an old red letter box in the wall of a barn announces ‘‘Christmas Pie. Next collection. . .

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