DECEMBER 17th.
"A DAY OF DISASTER?" SENSATIGN-MONGERING CAUSES A PANIC. The story per medium of an American newspaper that 011 December 17th, by a certain association of placets in tho firmament and with, the collaboration of tho sun, Mother Earth is to have an anxious time, has caused no little alarm to many people in Wellington. The advent of gaseous vapors, earthquakes, tidal waves, and intensely cold weather lias created a panic among some credulous people. In several cases a state akin to nervous is said to have resulted. Taking time by the forelock more than one householder has 1 already removed valuable crockery and plate to the depths of tile garden". "That such notice should be taken of the preposterous sensation-mongering of the Yankeo Press is absurd," observed a well-known Wellington citizen to a New Zealand Times reporter. "This feeling of panic will grow unless something is done to check it. I know for a fact that many people are genuinely alarmed. Surely the authorities should I take some steps to contradict this abaitrri panard.
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Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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176DECEMBER 17th. Taranaki Daily News, 3 December 1919, Page 5
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