For the onlv time this year Friday fell to-day on the thirteenth day of the month. To-day is, tlierefore, a day when superstitious folk will refrain from malring important decisions, travelling in trains or eating muslirooms (not that tliere are any about at the present time). Superstition dies hard, andi these old beliefs have such a hold upon some sections of tlie community that many seem still to fear dire consequences from such actions. Last year Friday fell on the thirteenth day of the luonth on. tivo occaslous — iu ■March and Noveffiber. ** ,
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 5
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