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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 63, 14 March 1936, Page 8

STALE . . . There’s smartness in glasses to be secured by exercising dircriminaS tion a* to what is vogue for business, sport, or dress purposes and likel wise the selection of style of glars that is most becoming to your type. DAVID A. C. LILBURNE 1.0.N.Z., 129 AVENUE :: 'PHONE 3006. CONSULTING OPTICIAN. WANGANUI Visits Taihape To day (Saturday), March 11, from 9 a.m. to I p.m. at Mr. Bond X Jeweller . Visits Marton Saturday. March 21, from 2 p.m. at l\ Woods’. 1

R G TALBOYS, (Fellow NX Inst. Arch ) STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. WANGANUI anj MARTON.

•jparstitious Pedestrians. Although few people will admit it, practical! v every person is super sHtions to some degree. Tester*! ty after n »n a ladder was projecting across the footpath from the Bank of Australasia from a platform where decorating work was in progress. Of 2.*» people who passed by within tie space of two or three minutes, only one pedestrian, a woman, passed under the ladder. Several people waited some time to pass around the ladder rather than walk under it. but when questioned. would not admit that they did «*» bemuse of their superstition. However. the fact remain.* that it was more convenient at times to walk under the ladder, and without danger. beciJS” no one was working on it. than to walk

A splash uf liiae-water accidentally hitting the blind right eye of James Morren. a 30-year-old employee of an Elgin distillery, restored its sight after twelve years of blindness. A specialist affirms that the lime burnt away an unsuspected film.