Cheerfully signing themselves “Seal) Crew Dorset,” the fourteen South Taranaki volunteer seamen and lire men aboard that vessel send wireless greetings from midocean (states the “Taranaki Daily News”). The Dorset, after being held up by the strike for many weeks, left New Plymouth on October If) and finally sailed from New Zealand shores on November 7, so she would be about ten days out when, on November 18, the following message, addressed to the editor of the I-lawera “Star,” was wirelessed to the s.s. Sutton Hall, for posting on that vessel's arrival at Auckland: “Compliments of- the season. All well. Plenty of tucker, but rough and unhomely. Please forward Christmas pudding. Condensed milk inferior to dinkum stuff. Only cheese seen was in captain’s mousetrap.”
Though early to bed And early to rise, You’ll never be rich Till you advertise. For children’s hacking cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2977, 19 December 1925, Page 4
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149Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2977, 19 December 1925, Page 4
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