The old-time custom of a birthday being a day of gifts, was demonstrated at the Rotary Club’s luncheon on Tuesday (says the Dominion), when, on the suggestion of Mr J. Myers, it was decided to honour the twenty-fourth birthday of the Rotary movement, by fining all the members present one shilling, the proceeds to go towards the building up of the club’s funds.
“The truck is an old vehicle and my client is not certain whether it is actually capable of doing 25 miles per hour,” counsel for a defendant in a by-law case at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court the other afternoon informed the magistrate, Mr F. K. Hunt (says the Dominion). “Well’s he’s got a good reference now when he wants to sell it,” retorted the magistrate in fining the offender £l.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3912, 5 March 1929, Page 68
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