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“ Query," St. Hilda.— I The toll gate on the Portobello road was closed in 1908. We shall endeavour to procure the actual date. ” Letters,” Roslyn.—There is „no possible danger of spreading infantile paralysis through the medium of the mails. ” Curious," Kelso.—The specimen in the cardboard box is the common earwig. The others have been submitted to the entomologist associated with the Department of Agriculture. “ Die Lorelei,” Dunedin.—We are reprinting the first verse of the old German song in the hope that some reader will be able to oblige by supplying the remaining verses:— Ich weiss nicht was soil es bedenten, Dass ich so traurig bin; Ein Mflrchen aus uralten Zeiten, Dass kanmt mir nicht aus dem Sinn. Die luft ist kiihl und es dunkelt. Und ruhig fliest der Rhein; Der Gipfel des Berges funkelt, Xm abendsonnenschein.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23082, 7 January 1937, Page 8
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