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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXX, Issue 5481, 30 September 1929, Page 2

Preparations for the opening of the swimming season at Ngatea were made on Saturday, when a working bee was held to fix up the Ngatea Swimming Club’s stajje and dressingrooms. More work remains to be done, including attention to the floating pontoon bath, but this necessitates more .money than the club has at its command. It was stated at the New Plymouth Rotary luncheon that New Plymouth was the only place known in the world where camellias are struck from cuttings commercially, an average of 10,000 being exported yearly. An assistant in a Greymouth store received a shock the other morning (says the Star), when' a customer handed over a £lO note to pay for a 10s purchase and walked out of the shop without the change. The man ■was called back and advised of his mistake. The position became complicated, however, when he affirmed •that he'had believed the note to be a 10s one and that’ someone had really handed it to him in error. The bewildered customer was given the £9 10s change, but no doubt had little difficulty in locating the real owner of ' the big note. i Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Children’s Hacking Cough.