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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20707, 3 May 1929, Page 9

u y es ’• we ,^ ve no bananas!” This V s V'free translation” of’one of the latest of Signor Mussolini’s ukases. He has ordained that Black Shirts. must not eat bananas, because they do not grow ? r I P. an y Italian colony. At the Italian frontier a very strict lookout k kept for this forbidden fruit. Recently rLin £ ,s^ vo ® an - “Otoring from Monte Carlo to San Remo, was stopped at the frontier so that her car might b e searched. In it. Ivin- innocent - , Paper bag on the back seat, were six bananas. After a great <Jeal t , , the Black Shirt commandant, delivered The bananas must 'll) be the e snn? Ck or , - be eaten on the spot The lady asked lor time to think, and as she pondered she ate the bananas/ Then she was permitted to resume her journey, ■