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AUCKLAND, Wednesday. Messrs. Dalgety and Company report as follows on their Westfield sale : — Pigs: Choppers to £1/8/-, heavy baconers to £2/11/-, heavy porkers to £1/12/-. Sheep : Lots sold under steady competition at late rates. Ewes were in good demand. Extra heavy prime wethers to 14/9, heavy prime ewes to 10/6, heavy prime lambs to 13/-. Extra choice ox to 19/-, prime young cow heifers to 16/-.

MAROONED ON MOUNTAIN After being marooned for five days and five nights on a tiny mountain ledge — with a drop of 300 feet below him — a coloured youth named George Afrika was recently rescued by a party of Cape Town mountaineers. "I spent the whole of the first day shouting for help," Afrika said. "I prayed all the nights, I would not sleep. I knew that if I did sleep I should slip off and be ]ulled.' Five days before George and a friend had left Paarl, in the Western Province, with the intention of walking aeross the Drakenstein Mountains to Worcester. They lost their way in the mist. "We slipped from rock to rock, clutching at bushes," related the rescued youth. "Suddenly I heard a terrific crash and saw my friend hurtling through space." Then he saw the friend's body lying hundreds of feet below him. He was on a ledge 4 feet long by 2 feet wide, and there he had to sit until help came.

BEFOIHD you tuclc the kiddies in, sprinkle a few drops of NAZOL on their nighties; it will save you a lot of worry. I

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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 3

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Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 3

Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 3

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