Local & General
Legs Singed While engaged in fighting* the large scrub fire at the back of Matata on Friday Mr B. Dodds, assistant engineer to the Whakatane County Council, who rushed in to the fray in shorts, had most of the hairs on . his legs singed. He also had a pair of sox damaged. Other men fighting the blaze had similar experiences. Mean “Joke” About 5.30 last Tuesday evening someone, apparently with a perverted sense of humour, chipped into a telephone conversation Mrs R. F. Julian was having with another woman to say, “I’ve heard from the murderer. He’s not giving in till he’s fixed that white-haired to her husband, and was naturally alarmed, though fortunately needlessly so. However, if the perpetrator thought he was being funny, his sense of humour has a ly queer twist.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 51, 9 February 1949, Page 4
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136Local & General Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 13, Issue 51, 9 February 1949, Page 4
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