A Wanganui stock agent was aroused from his slumbers at 4 o’clock the other morning. Thinking a farmer client desired to interview him, he sprang from his bed with alacrity (states the “Herald”). It was a sister from a local nursing home at the other end of the wire. Tn a sweet voice she informed him that, he yy as the proud father of a baby girl. The announcement nearly took his breath away. Then, after a good deal of stammering, he informed the sister that she had evidently communicated with the wrong number. White ants are the roost productive ot all insects, having bean kno.va to lay eggs at, Uns rate of 80.000 a day for o month.
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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 58, 2 December 1926, Page 15
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119Untitled Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 58, 2 December 1926, Page 15
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