Hope for All.
“ Some achieve immortality by writing a poem, others by writing a play, and some by discovering a comet,” said Mr E. G. Jones, when giving a lecture on comets at the Auckland War Memorial Museum. Before describing a comet’s tail, he told a tale of a comet, one which a Wellington doctor saw in the early hours of a morning. The doctor promptly rang up the Government astronomer. Socn afterwards a railway engine-driver saw the comet, and also rang up the Government .astronomer, who had half a dt zen rings before breakfast. But the comet was first seen a few hours earlier by a man in South America, and it was named after him. The lecturer' said that so far thefe was not a Comet Jones, but he v/as still living in hope.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 8
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136Hope for All. Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20361, 19 July 1934, Page 8
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