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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 149, 24 June 1918, Page 2

Major H. R. Friediander, K.A.M.C., a son of Mr Rudolph Fried-lander, Ashburton, returned to his home last Tuesday after an a.bsence of ten years and a half. He received his primary education at the Ash-burton Borough School, afterwards going to the Waitaki High School. He then went to London, and entered St Thomas' Hospital, qualified as a medical practitioner shortly after war was declared, and immediately joined the R.A.M.C. He was first engaged in England in training medical -units, and after about nine months left I for France, where he remained until November, 1017, and was then transferred direct to Italy. Major Friedlandet is due 'back for service in September. An instance of unconscious humour on the part of a little girl occurred recently. It was in a big establishment, where a nursery is provided so that; mothers while doing tnetr shopping may ! leave the babies in care of a nurse, in this room is a settle for the purpose of j weighing the babies, and it was this eaugthf the eye at the little girl, fcihe watched with interest a new baby being) weighed in the scale, and then, sidling up to the nurse, asked shyly, "How much a pound, please." The nurse, quite equal to the occasion, replied. "THiis is the last one, dear, and it has already been sold." '-The Man Who Came Back," by Jules Eckert Goodman, in which Muriel Starr 1 is appearing at Melbourne Theatre RoyaL | presents a varied phase of life in five "episodes." The first takes place at the home of a Wall .Street millionaire in New York; the second, in a cabaret in San Francisco: the third, in an opium den in Shanghai: the fourth on a pineapple plantation in Honolulu; the fifth in New York.