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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXIV, Issue 4565, 18 May 1923, Page 3

When John- Frances' O’Keefe, who was sentenced to .three years' hard labour at Palmerston North for theft various articles from. Ithe Club Hotel, Dannevirke, was on his way to ■gaol he took the opportunity of informing Mr C. W. Merrylees, the owner, where he had planted a watch that was amongst the articles stolen, sayihg that he had thrown it in some hay in" an old shed at Matainau. Mr Mnrrylees (relates the Dannevirke “Evening News”) went to the shed but was unable to locate the watch,, although he recovered a scent bottle which had been taken from his bedroom. The shed had the appearance of having been occupied by swaggers, and it «is presumed that a wayfarer had picked up the witch, which the owner valued at £5O. It was an 18ct. gold chiming piece. Be kind to the stranger who falls by your Be. humane to each suffering stray, /You never know when you may meet him agaip In some danger zone far away. An opportune friend we all need in the end When without one we could npt endure. .And the trifle we spend assures a true friend In Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.