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NO LLRRS WANTED

The prospective, juror asked Die court In lie excused. Prospective Juror (explaining): I owe a man Co and as he is leaving town to-day ior so,me years, I want to catch him and pay him the money. Judge (in a very cold voice) Aon are excused. I don’t want anybody on the jury who can lie like that.

The Longest Day. The |smninci- solstice, i,(Mined today, when the sun reached the most southern portion of its orhit. Although the day might well he called midsummer’s day, Du* solstice is actually used to mark the first day < I the calendar season ol summer, instead of the middle ol the season. This arbitrary arrangement brings tin* astronomical season mere into line with the meteorological season, which begins generally about the second week of December, buL which cannot, he accurately determined until the temperature gradients have been examined well alter Ihe season has expired. - To-day and to-morrow, a.x the solstice actually occurs at midnight to-night, the sun will he only Idi degrees from tin* vertical at noon, as seen Irom Opoliki. From any spot on the Kquat.br on the same days it can unit come nearer than ~*’lJ degrees Irom the* vertical, so that in New Zealand the sun actually rises higher in the sky than it does at the Itquatol* at present.

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Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 126, 23 December 1938, Page 3

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NO LLRRS WANTED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 126, 23 December 1938, Page 3

NO LLRRS WANTED Opotiki News, Volume I, Issue 126, 23 December 1938, Page 3

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