ON ITALY'S DOORSTEP
GOODS DELIVERED TO CYPRUS ENGLISH BILLIARD TABLE A billiard table has been delivered to the Samagusta Club in Syprus by its London makers, a tribute to the respect in which Italy holds tain's Mediterranean Fleet. The makers have been exporting . billiard tables for a century. Ona recently recovered from a house in Scotland was originally supplied to an English officers' camp during the Crimean War. "This table,!' runs an inscription upon.it, "was erected in Dony brook Fair English Camp, Crimea, in the winter of 1855." • During the present war the firm* which is directed to-day by the fourth generation of its founders,. .. has sent tables out to officers' messes in Egypt and Palestine and it continues to export to different parts of the world full-size tables, re- - placements and accessories. . . ,
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 254, 6 January 1941, Page 5
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133ON ITALY'S DOORSTEP Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 254, 6 January 1941, Page 5
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