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■Why is it, I wonder, that so many people with “advanced” ideas are so often unattractive as companions'.' Mr. Bernard Gilbert, a writer in an English magazine, relates how he recently attended a summer colony of Fabian?, “and had a good view of the Communists, Feminists, Conchies, and all the other brands of rebel. They talked faster than I had’ believed it possible for any human being to talk. Like burst water-pipes 1 For hours! And all about nothing! If there sentences bad been inverted no one would have been the wiser. And in the background their prophet Shaw sat inscrutable, as if wondering “what a devil of a brood he had helped to hatch.” Many folks leaving- Sew Zealand take a good supply or “NO RUBBING” Laundry Help with them to less progressive lands. New Zealand leads. 11

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Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15315, 16 August 1923, Page 6

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Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15315, 16 August 1923, Page 6

Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Waikato Times, Volume 98, Issue 15315, 16 August 1923, Page 6