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Auctioneer Bill Todd inspects some of the memorabilia being auctioned for Janice Goldsmith at Mabel Bush on Saturday. Janice Goldsmith and her family are keeping some pieces as she prepares to move to Dunedin. Asked if she was sad to sell most of the collection, Goldsmith said: “No, there’s no point in being sad, it doesn’t get you anywhere.” She and her late husband collected memorabilia from a variety of industries during the past 70 years, including farming and Southland businesses. Furniture from the colonial era and numerous signs including one from David Strang Coffee and Spice Works, which operated in Esk St, Invercargill, from 1872 to 1966.
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Improperly discarded cigarettes started a fire that killed a family dog and caused about $300,000 in damage to a home in St. Thomas, fire officials say.
Three people left the house at 241 Forest Ave. after they were alerted by smoke alarms to the fire that broke out shortly after 10 p.m. Tuesday, said Bill Todd, chief fire prevention officer with the St. Thomas fire department.
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“They did a good job,” he said of the home’s residents. “They heard the smoke alarm go off and got out of the house in time.”
Dr Stephen Humphreys
SIR – Do we now find ourselves having left the European Union and rejoined the Common Market, which is what I voted for originally?
C F Goodall
SIR – With some reluctance, I voted to leave the EU. The manner in which it has conducted negotiations since the UK voted for Brexit has done much to reassure me that I did the right thing.
Nigel Waterson
SIR – The person to be recognised for having brought about such a good Brexit deal is Lord Frost. As the EU has said, he has been a tough leader of the British negotiating team – but fair, too.
24 December 2020 • 12:02am
Tony Blair has called for people to be given just one Covid-19 vaccine dose to speed up roll out
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SIR – Hearing Tony Blair on Radio 4 yesterday recommending that the over-80s are not given their second vaccinations made me hugely thankful that he is not prime minister anymore.
Ian MacGregor
SIR – Mr Blair suggests that, rather than keeping back half the current supply of vaccine in order to give people a second dose, it should all be used to give more people a first dose. He thinks this will still provide some protection.