CARELESS SMOKERS
LETTER TO MR PARRY ANXIOUS TIME WITH FIRE “They say confession is good for the soul and the conscience and I want to be on side." said a letter received by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, recently. “Without any palaver.” the writer continued. “I’ll tell you I started a grass fire from a cigarette butt I threw away. It was like this, Mr Tarry: I was talking to a. friend of mine over the gate of my seaside bach. The conversation got interesting and at the height of my laughter. I, more through force of habit than anything else, threw the butt of | my fag on, I thought, the track of i the bach. What happened killed all conversation and nice thoughts! It I took half a dozen of us a couple of ! hours before we mastered the fire, and I can tell you we had some anxious moments.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32403, 6 March 1944, Page 6
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156CARELESS SMOKERS Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume 53, Issue 32403, 6 March 1944, Page 6
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