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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19347, 29 June 1925, Page 4

The Commonwealth Statistician estimates that the population of the Commonwealth at the end of Alarch last was 5,904,592, being an increase of 127,230 for the year. William Hope, for having worked as a builder at his trade on the County Office lat Tinui on a Sunday, within view of the public, was fined £1 and 7s costs at the Alasterton Police Court i on Friday. ' An interesting visitor to Oamaru, says the local paper, is a mtan eightytwo years of age who made boots for the late King Edward VII. He is still able to perform his trade wonderfully well, land a pair of shoes hand-sown by him recently were perfectly done, no fewer than thirty- stitches being made to the inch. A desire to preserve the good name of a firm founded by her gitindfnther [many years ago led Afiss Eastwood tn make an offer at a meeting of crediitors of Eastwood, Swingler and Co.. ! Ltd., tat Derby, England, to see that all the creditors are paid in full. In April I the firm went into voluntary liquidaItion, having suffered considerably from the slump in engineering. Afiss Eastiwood’s offer will involve her in liabilty lof tens of thousands of pounds. Her holding in the firm was very small. In J her letter Afiss Eastwood said her desire was to maintain the good name of the firm, which for generations had [been held in high respect. Afiss Eastwood desired that her action should not be made public, and Itater said the rU ' fair was a private one. “There is nothing very noble about it,” she said. “I was brought up to believe that if 1 you did not act decently you htad bet--1 ter be dead; and what I am doing is the only thing I could do.”

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