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SWEDISH COMMENT ON BAY FLOWER’ DECKED MAIDENS The following appeared in a Swedish newspaper from Finland received recently:— After describing the warm sunny weather they were fortunate to have for the hay making, the/ commentator goes on to say: “What a pity it is that one’s work is not of such a seasonal nature that one could be free-to take advantage of and enjoy our far too short and beautiful summers. Think of the inhabitants of the south sea islands who have it nice and warm all the year round. Our thoughts go out to one of our subscriber’s who lives in the south seas. If, as we hope, he will in due course read this paper, he will note that we now for a short spell are having a taste of what the more tropical parts of the world can be like. May he sometimes have a longing to return to the country of his birth, in spite of, perhaps, the presence of flower bedecked Maori maidens. If so, we can console him by saying that Finland now by no means is a Land of Plenty. Our subscriber, by the way, lives in a place called the Bay of Plenty, and we have no doubt but that the local conditions there do not belie such a good name.”
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 29, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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223AS OTHERS SEE US Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 29, 16 May 1947, Page 9
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