Cabinet is a word that has been so frequently before the public of Paeroa of late that an explanation of its derivation may not be amiss. Cabinet, at first, probably brings up to most people a picture of a cupboard or a chest of drawers. Obsolete meanings of the word are a little cabin or hut ; a summer-house ; a bower. Then it came to mean a small room ; a private apartment. In origin, the word is a diminutive of “cabin.” Developed from the sense of a small room, this meaning of cabinet came into use : “Originally, a private room for consultations, especially of a Sovereign’s confidential advisers or the chief Ministers of a country.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5436, 17 June 1929, Page 3
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114Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5436, 17 June 1929, Page 3
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