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Hokitika Guardian, 30 June 1920, Page 3

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How an erring husband added insult to iujuiry was told a complainant in a maintenance case at Christchurch. “He boiled the kettle with my bible,” the witness said, “and then asked me to have a clip of tea!”

A public meeting will bo held at the Public Hall, Kuuiara on Friday oveqing at 8 o’clock for the purpose of considering the reconstruction of the. ambulance movement on the West Coast, Mr T. West (Association Lee tnrer) will address the meeting. Mr J. F. Andrews, Secretary to Cabinet and Clerk of the Executive Council, celebrated liis seventy-second birthday on .Saturday, and the end of fifty years’ public service of which thirty two years were on the staffs of Cabinet Ministers. Mr Andrews has keen secretary to six Prime Ministers.

Tile Dunedin "filar” says that another Minister is to he appointed with ‘ in a week or so; also that the Prune Minister’s selection is piacticnlly certain to he Sir R. Heaton Rhodes, who voluntarily retired in 1915 from a Ministerial post which he was holding in order to facilitate the formation of the National Government.

The Olympic without doubt, made the best record during the war of any of the very large ships of the world, having seen the longest and most continuous active service. She carried dining the entire war over 200,000 persons (American and Canadian troops). She steamed 184.000 miles, consuming 347,000 tons of coal, without the slightest delay or accident tp her uiacl,\il\er.V, ;\n achievement never hi-jote a pushed bv any ship.

American capitalists are said to be pouring money Into Canada for the development of its natural resources, George Wright, Hydro-Electric Commissioner of Toronto, told a New York reporter recently that the eountij is iq a very prosperous condition, lhc great oil organisations are opening up the MucKeuzie River oil basin which was hitherto neglected because of Rs ,iiia,eeessihility. Geologists state that thy deposits of this basin are the greatest in the world.