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• THE GLENROY TRAGEDY MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER MELBOURNE, Nov. 18. George Grant (42), a chimney sweep, was charged with having murdered Miss Annie Wiseman (62) and her niece, Miss Phyllis Wiseman (17). at Glenroy during the week-end. The women were found strangled in their home. VISIT TO DOMINION RETURNED SOLDIERS* CONTINGENT PERTH, Nov. 18. At the Returned Soldiers' League's Federal Congress it was stated that although an A.I.F. contingent of between 3000 and 5000 had been invited to attend the New Zealand centenary celebrations in 1940, it was unlikely that shipping accommodation could be arranged for more than 2000. SPENDING POWER A DECLINE PROBABLE LONDON, Nov. 17. Surveying Australian and New Zealand conditions at Dalgety and Co.'s annual meeting, Mr Edmund Parker, while not pessimistic, considered the Commonwealth not as prosperous as it was last year, and was likely to experience a natural sequence of reduced spending power In New Zealand the outlook was obscured by the forward policy of the Government, which was determined on social schemes costing £20,000,000. He questioned whether a population of 1,500,000 could stand the strain, which was already causing anxietv.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23661, 19 November 1938, Page 14
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