OCTOBER OYSTER FEAST.
> LONDON, Oct. 25. The famous Clochester oyster feast, which has been an October feature in England for decades i and the occasion of oratory- by prominent speakers, had the most strange guest ever, to-day who thrust her plate to a neighbour, whispering: “I do not like oysters. The offer was gratefully accepted. Nine thousand oysters were eaten, some of the guests consuming as many as seven dozen. . .. The chief speaker was Sir Oliver Lodge whose speech circumnavigated the universe, but omitted to refer to ovsters.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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88OCTOBER OYSTER FEAST. Hokitika Guardian, 26 October 1928, Page 5
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