Tlie pleasant humor of a Petone grocer is evidenced by the way lie is trying to dispose of his surplus Christmas stock of figs (says “The Clironiclo”). It is a good “catch” line: lie offers a suit of clothes to every purchaser of a pound. This sounds liberal until it is ascertained that the garments in question are not quite in accord with modern ideas of western civilisation. They have been gathered -along with the figs and from the same tree.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 3
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81Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2738, 17 February 1910, Page 3
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