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Melba and Grand Junctions.

-Al'HofoS of the sharp rise in Waihi Grand Junctions, which has taken place this week, it may me in as much to the peerless Melba as a whole series of packed concerts in Auckland. Perhaps, you may not know that it Avas the Queen of Pong Avbo gave Waihi Grand Junction its first start. “ Long Drive ” Walker, Avho Avent Home to float the company, is uncle by marriage to the prirna donna, and father of Mrs Purchss, the cousin who has been travelling round Avith her this trip. Mr Walker was not meeting v ith much success in his mining venture Avhen he met his distinguished niece, then the reigniug attraction at Covent Garden opera. “ Hoav are you getting on, uncle,, Avith your flotation the diva is said to have asked. “ Not getting od at all, my dear, ” answered “ Lone Drive.” “ Can I help you, then ?” “ I don’t see how you can. my dear. These hardly headed city men are not to be coaxed with a song ?” “ Well, how Avould BfeL'oOOO put into shares help you ?” “It would give the thing a big days afterwards, so runs the storv, Melba’s friends subscribed* for 20,000 shares, and the Waihi Grand Junction Avas prosperously launched. Now. after many days, it has struck one of the Waihi’s big reefs, and the Grand Junction promises to pan out riclily for the people who have had pluck and faith.—Wellington Free Lance.

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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4410, 13 May 1909, Page 3

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Melba and Grand Junctions. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4410, 13 May 1909, Page 3

Melba and Grand Junctions. Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4410, 13 May 1909, Page 3

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