Preservation, which had a population of nearly 500 when the gold and timber industries were in full swing some years ago, is now reduced to three miners, who are working on Coal Island (says the Western Star). Tho Kisbee accommodation house, for which the license was not renewed at the last meeting Of tho Wallace. Licensing
Committee, is now being demolished, the timber and iron from which will be sold.
One of the most comical mcome tax re* turns wag that of a man who scrawled across the Schedule D form J "Got no in 4 come • average for the last three years £3OO per annumj but the man from whoM I borrowed the money is' now dead*"-
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Otago Witness, Issue 3467, 24 August 1920, Page 20
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