What man can stand the taunt of a woman when sha challenges him to go forth and do battle for her? A neighbours' dispute ventilated in the Police Court to-day led to the Magistrate being asked a question something in this form. Yes, a witness admitted, he had stepped over the fence on to the roadway to have "an up-and-down" with the man who dared him. But his wife had lost her temper, and said to him: "Alf, if you don't hit him, I will." "So what was. a man to do, your Worship?" The Magistrate joined in the laugh which followed, but he was quite unable to answer the question. Rifleman W. Feather, with 90 point * out of a possible 100, won a series of service matches at the Waihi ran?e under tbe auspices of the Waihi Rifle Club. Rifleman N. Jamieson (So), and J. Calraghan, junior, (So) were runners-
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Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 292, 7 December 1923, Page 7
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