CARELESS SMOKERS
LETTER TO MR PARRY
"They say ■confession is. good for the .soul and the conscience and 1 want to be on side." said a letter received by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. K. Parry, re-, cently. "Without any palaver." the writer continued, "I'll tell you i started a grass lire from a cigarette butt I threw away. It was like this, Mr Parry: I was talking to a friend of mine over the gate of my seaside Jiach. ' The conversation got interesting and at the height of my laughter, 11,I 1 , more through I'orre of liabit than anything else, threw the Jmlt of my fag on, 1 thought, the track of the bach. What happened lulled all conversation and nice thoughts! It took half a dozen of us a couple of hours before, we mastered the lire, and I can tell you avo liad -some anxious moments.''
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 56, 14 March 1944, Page 3
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152CARELESS SMOKERS Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 7, Issue 56, 14 March 1944, Page 3
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