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LOCAL FAMILY'S ADVENTURE WELLINGTON'S SUFFERING PETS A recent local visitor to the Wellington Centennial Exhibition relates an amusing experience while staying in the house of the S.P.C.A. Inspector who was away on his annual holiday. The family were' inundated with! telephone calls, from all quarters of the city reporting sick cats and dogs. They lent a sympathetic ear to all the numerous reports explaining at the same time that the Inspector was away. However this did not in the least deter the volubility of the many callers per phone and they patiently listened to lengthy discourses on the many points of'beauty and virtue by the various owners of cats etc. —also in passing the fiendish behaviour of the vendictive next door neighbour who threw stones at their cats, etc. ctc. The visitors enjoyed the novelty at first but before their visit was over, they had lost their appetite for animal news and were getting rather "fed up." The culmination came when ail anxious cat owner arrived eaidy one morning with a large cat carefully carried in a basket. The visitors r>yed the animal with concern, until Father had a brain wave and /"rightly suggested a dose of castor oil. The relieved owner thanked him for his professional advice and triumphantly bore his pet homewards.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 114, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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216INNOCENTS ABROAD Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 114, 24 January 1940, Page 5
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