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Otago Witness, Issue 3881, 31 July 1928, Page 75

From information supplied to an Auckland Star representative, it would appear that the movement for the proposed new bank, the London and New Zealand, had its origin in Dannevirke. A number of Hawke’s Bay men took up the matter, and, obtaining co-operation in Wellington, formed a syndicate to exploit th° proposition. A representative was sent to Australia, where his reception was so satisfactory that "the promoters felt jusahead with the scheme. The-Mayor of Wanganui, in his mail recently, received a sarcastic letter and clipping, unsigned, in reference to the unemployed (says the Herald). In showing the letter to a reporter, the Mavor remarked that it would have been much better for- the writer to Have saved the penny stamp and applied it as a donation to the unemployed fund, a very deserving cause at present. He added that this was a contrast to other letters he had received from sympathetic persons enclosing smallsums of money, for the fund. Cut the last piece of stale bread into small cubes and fry thein in just a dash of butter or good beef dripping. Served nice and hot and crisp they arc delicious with pease or any thick soup.