A Glasgow reader of John o‘ London's Weekly has kept a record of uncommon surnames which have come before him in his business os a printer. He writes: “I have not given a name which I have not seen printed on visiting cards, business cards, wedding cards, etc.” He selects the following as “undesirable names to carry with one to church or market” Careless. Damme, Enemy, Freak, Ghost, Ills, Jealous, Kneebone, Lightup, Mummery, Newgrass, Odd, Pickup, Quarroll, Rotter, Swears, Twister, Wildv, and the following contrasts: Allright, Bible, Divine, Docent, Dearlove, Faithful Friend, Godyel { Grace, Goctyehero Heaven, Joy, Kindness, Lovely, Manly, Perfect, Soul, Thrift, Wisdom, Wisely. A young man named Robert Thomas Beveridge was sentenced at Ashburton on Friday to a month’s imprisonment, with hard labour, on each of three charges of false pretenoes—two concerning the obtaining of cigarettes valued at £3 3s 3d and £5 17s lid at Dunedin and one concerning tl»e obtaining of oredit at Winsloe.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3698, 27 January 1925, Page 17
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