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Bruce Herald, Volume LI, Issue 67, 30 August 1915, Page 4

Speaking at the Napier Cathedral on Sunday evening Rev. Canon Maytne, m referring to the reported utterances of tins president of the Hawke s Bay Jockey Club, said he could not share that gentleman's opinion thiait "it was to not© thtfit th© club e> nnfltficGS were in a satisfactory condition inspite of the war." The preacher sought to show that the people were not penitent enough, and in spite of the w<i>r th<? evil of gambling was on the increase.. It cud not appeal to him that the position as revealed by the Jockey CHib's acooirate was satisfactory. We have a complex part to play in this; great war, and it is a« important for us—it is perhaps more important—to keep the industrial machine running at high pressure, as it i s actually to kill Germans in the lighting line We have practically to finance some ot our Allies. We have to provide some of them as well as ourselves with war material. Powerful and wealthy as the British Empire may be, its present task will tax its resources to the Utmost, and its responsibilities cannot possibly be met unless every man and every woman is in some way or other m the fighting line.—''Express.' The ordinance prohibiting the use of oxen in place of truck horses in the streets of Berlin has been abrogated by the police, and the first yoke of oxen E<;en there for years appeared recently. The measure was made necessary because so many truck horses had been requisitioned for military use. Smokers throughout ( Hungary on one day recently abstained from the use of tobacco, it being " Abstinence from Smoking Bay," and the money saved was con'tributea for the use of UwaM soldiers,