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BRING AND BUY It is expected that more than £45 was raised from a successful bring and buy staged today in the YWCA Hall by the Whangarei branch of the New Zealand Registered Nurses’ Association. Everything saleable was sold and the morning’s work was a complete success. PETROL COUPONS
Petrol coupons for October, including Nos. 10, 11 and 12, may be carried «over to November, the Minister of (Supply (Mr Nordmdyer) announced today. Coupons 13. 14 and 15 will be available for November at full face value. An announcement will be made shortly whether an increased quota can be provided for the Christmas holidays. WAR ANNIVERSARIES Today is the fourth anniversai'y of the routing of the Japanese fleet in the Philippines Sea. Admiral Nimitz, in a communique told the world how 24 Japanese warships were sunk, 13 so severely damaged that they might have to be sunk and 21 damaged. The United States Fleet lost six ships and several damaged. Today is also the anniversary of the signing of the armistice with Bulgaria in 1944.
TWIN CALVES The unusual occurrence of a cow giving birth to a heifer calf and then to a bull calf six weeks later took place on Mr E. Ashwin’s farm at Aranga, Northern Wairoa. The cow, a six-year-old Jersey, calved on September 10 and again on October 25. Both calves are well developed.
Buyers of prints and cambrics, sheets, towels, cloths, curtain nets and other manchester goods should not miss the special values at Henry Wilson’s. Wilson’s ordinary values are good Wilson’s special values are irresistable. r/wl
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Northern Advocate, 29 October 1948, Page 4
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