LATE LOCALS.
Six dozen men’s hats, usual price 12s Gd to 39s 6d. clearing sale price 5s lid to 13-s lid. MT IT. Stopforth’s. —Advt.
The lifting of a telegraph pole out of the ground in front of the Municipal Chambers gave an ocular demonstration to a few interested spectators how easily such' a job may be accomplished (remarks Timaru ‘'Post”). Two men, operating a timber jack each, on either side of the pole, completed the operation in about five minutes, and but for a resounding bang as the pole fell to the footpath, startling a few bystanders unaware of what was going on, the performance seemed as simple as having a tooth drown.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 3
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114LATE LOCALS. Hokitika Guardian, 29 July 1927, Page 3
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