_The Evening Post_, 25 October 1924:
WOMEN IN
PRINT.
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The saying that “Providence watches over children and drunkards” might be further extended to these days, as the following paragraph indicates:— #Skylarkers on the Summit road, near #Christchurch, recently pushed a piano case over several times in blissful ignorance of the fact that it contained #gelignite and detonators. The #explosives are kept in the case by the workmen engaged in widening the road. The culprits have great reason to be thankful that they were not blown to pieces.
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/EP19241025.2.130

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