Cutting Everything. "This is the smallest letter I have -ever received," said the town clerk of Sumner, Mr J. F. Menzies, holding up a piece of paper five inches by three in size at the meeting (of the Sumner Borough Council, reports the Ghristchurch Press. The letter, which came from Sydney, accompanied a cheque for rates. The sender, in excusing the "scrap •of paper," wrote: "We are cutting everything to the bone." He added: "Here, we are all trying to meet the •stress, and one has such a feeling ■of New Zealand's war effort that one feels bound to do a bit where i>osr ■■Sible for 'Down Under.'" 1
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 209, 6 September 1940, Page 5
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