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116 supporter of Mr Sutherland and the independent spirit which had made him refuse to answer the telephone though he must have guessed what was wanted and simply did not choose to turn out even though he might endanger lives by not doing so, was haranguing our patient M.C. on the iniquities of Government procedure. And marvelling at the courtesy of Mr. Inspector when anyone else would have told the officious visitor to mind his own business, I dreamed that I was voyaging down the Wanganui in the U.S.S. Company’s “Takapuna!”