An amusing incident occurred in connection with Millerton Boxing Association’s tourney, stated the Westport “News.” The secertary, in communication by telephone with a young lady in Westport who was intending to visit Millerton, asked her to procure Half a dozen sponges for the association. The young lady readily assented, and duly made the purchases. The car arrived at Millerton just as the men were about to take the ring for the preliminaries, and there was a call for the sponges. The secretary, hastily taking the parcel from the young lady, (hastened with it to the ringside, and quickly breaking the string, opened the parcel and pulled but, not sponges, but a sponge cake. The young lady thought the order she bad to execute was for something for supper!
When swallows nestle neath the eaves And faintly stir the autumn leaves, There waft to me as night-boats glide Sweet songs of love at eventide. Chill winds blow keen across the bay 'As twilight slowly wanes away, And that brings fear of colds, be sure, And thoughts of Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4459, 28 August 1922, Page 3
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180Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIII, Issue 4459, 28 August 1922, Page 3
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