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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIII, Issue 42, 14 February 1896, Page 29

Footballers and Cricketers use nothing but P. P.P. To be had from all chemists.— Advt. The Home correspondent of the Otago Witness writes :— '■ A few days ago I beard an interesting story ot tbe way New Zealand ceo grapby is taught in the best English high schools. My informant was aa exceptionally clever schoolgirl. The girls of her clasp shesaid, «ere instructed that the chief towns of Pouth New Zealand were ' Blenheim, Oamaru, Timaru, and Dunedin." But on another occasion the qupstion was put as to " What is Hokitika?" One tr;ii Bhhl it whs " a Uke," anothi r ' a volcano " a third "an extinct volcano," a fouith "a high mountain." The toacher shook her head' " Oh, dear, no 1 ' she said, 'Hokitika ia the principal towu in New Zealand. It has very extensive maDufac oriea and a church /"

JAM ES ALLAN House P^ 11 * 61 and Decorator, Importer of PaperhaiiKniUN Pl.uii nun Mict Glass. Esti/^l— .l— rMN, mates given for Renovating- on the Shortest Notice. Plk vse >.<>' ik Annuls— 148 Armagh Street, nearly oapositc O'Brien '« Uuut Factory, CHRISTG'HVRCII,