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...whatever else she thinks they want to hear about life back home. Each night, she works at her diary, which is later printed in the EM-Kayan, the company magazine; it sounds like a letter to a family of 5,000 children spread around the world. A typical entry: "Wellington, New Zealand. Sept. 13: arose 5:30, breakfast 6 a.m. Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee...
Just Pals. In Wellington, New Zealand, ex-Warder John Hall of Witako Prison got a six-month sentence after police found that he had given three prisoners five nights of liberty in one month, even lent one prisoner his bicycle to visit a girl friend...
...wired back: "I don't know that much about Lincoln." Then, he says: 'T studied up a bit on Lincoln hoping they'd ask me back, but they never did." A few years ago. when he was invited to be a summer guest preacher at famed Wellington Church in his home city of Glasgow, he jubilantly wrote his mother the news. "Dear Jamie." she replied, "accept the honor but decline the invitation. You are na' gud enough...
...Bridge Collapses. Then, with brutal suddenness, tragedy struck. The Wellington-Auckland Express, crammed with holidaymakers bound to see the Queen, was winding through the rugged mountains of North Island. High up in the hills (probably as the result of a minor volcanic eruption), a mountain lake burst its banks and sent a torrent of water rushing down the Wangaehu River. As the nine-car train crossed over the Wangaehu Bridge, underpinnings weakened by the surge of water buckled and sagged. Five cars dropped into the river, dragging the engine with them. A sixth teetered drunkenly on the edge...
...Road. In Wellington, New Zealand, Postwoman Nora Guise, 35, was fined ?36 ($100.80) after she admitted that she had tippled on her rounds, carried the day's mail home, burned 20 letters, let the remaining 600 lie around the house...