There was an audible smile tho other day at tho meeting of one of Auckland’s oountry Road Boards when a member, reporting in referenoo to a oortain bridge, stated that its erection had boon proourod by a person of influenoe in ordor to facilitate bis visits to his mother-in-law’s homo.
“ Quite an unusual circumstance,” suggested the wag of the Board ; “generally a man prefers a doep, broad and unbridged river between him and his mother-in-law 1 ” —Observer.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1415, 28 March 1905, Page 3
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