NEWS OF THE DAY
I &FECIAL TRAINS ;■ A special express will leave Wha- : r.garei for Auckland on Friday at 11.8 I a.m. Cn Sunday a special stock train | will run from Waiotira to Moerewa, | conveying about 2000 lambs to the j freezing works. ! APPRECIATE XMAS CHEER Thanks to the Portland Women’s Institute. which provided tins of fruit, tomatoes, jellies, bananas, and a big Christmas cake, the Civic League of Whangarei, which supplied a pipe and a tin of tobacco to each man, and the Hospital Board Which forwarded clothes, the old men who live in Walton Street. Whangarei, opposite the Settlers Hotel, spent a cheery Christmas in their rather dismal surroundings. Mrs. M. Dyanton, who conducts the boarding house where the men stay, stressed the need of reading material and clothes for the old timers, who have no relations to help them. The generosity of all who had helped to make the men’s Christmas a happy one was warmly appreciated. Make Henry Wilson’s your shopping centre for 1947. The firm is out to give the public a high quality article at the fines' possible price. The store is bristling with high quality merchandise and housewives and the public generally will find Wilson's still a more favourite shopping centre where slender purses make big purchases. r wl
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Northern Advocate, 8 January 1947, Page 4
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216NEWS OF THE DAY Northern Advocate, 8 January 1947, Page 4
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