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The seventh big crossword puzzle competition in “ Humour ” commences in the next week’s issue. Big cash prizes are offered, and this taken in conjunction with the weekly joke competition makes " Humour ’ quite a profitable magazine for the buyer. Its weekly survey in picture and story of the humour of the world is most interesting. ‘ How can you build up a self-sup-porting church when the average canning per person is 2d per week?’ asked the Rev. J. L. Gray at the Presb.vterian missionary conference in Wellington, when speakig of the outcast problem in India. “ And yet I have seen these Christian outcasts take the rings from their fingers to put in the collection box; poor trumpery pieces of silver, but valuable to them. I have seen them put little bunches of grain into the collection box, and I have known- them to go without a day’s pay in the harvest field to be present when one of the preachers was taking a service in. the village. How many people in New IZealand would forego a day’s pay to be in the House of God ?” Si’s good to be a man, A big, strong, hefty soul; Tci hew’your way through life ; To try and win the goal. To reach it, health must be The first thing to secure. fTo Jbe from all ills free Take Woods’ Great Peupermint Cure.

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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5147, 4 July 1927, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5147, 4 July 1927, Page 4

Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5147, 4 July 1927, Page 4

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