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Bruce Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 43, 4 June 1917, Page 4

It is interesting to note that some of i the "freezer 'l meat from the South j Otago works reached an' ex-Miltonite engaged on war service in his Ma- ! jeaty'd Navy. . /When writing home to { his mother, 'Morton H. Hitehou, 'E.K.A. J on a monitor-operating off the coast of —~, enclosed a tag taken froln a ear* case from the South Otago Freezing Works that had been supplied to the vessel he was aboard. "What will you do with your farm when you go into camp?" was a question asked of a witness at the 'Military J .Service Board in. Wellington recently.! "I will either have to lock the gates! or else let it fall back into the mort- I gagee's hands," was the reply. "I>o you suggest that seriously?" said Mr! Mack. "I do indeed," exclaimed the J appellant; /'it's far too valuable a farm to leave in charge of a man I do not know." Some years ago a well-known philanthropist presented the town of 'Carterton with an Old Men's Home, fully ecjuipped and free of cost. Admissiou was. saddled with two conditions—the applicant must not been a bankrupt, and he was required to prove,that his condition of indigence in his'old age was not due to drinking habits during his palmier days. The latter condition proved an insuperable-barrier, and left this fine institution practically empty. In a letter to an 'Auckland merchant an Eastern flour broker, who recently visited New Zealand; says: "I may live to see ,'Manchuria, North China and Siberia furnish the world's'markets with 10,000,000 tons of wheat yearly. The grain with proper, care -can be brought, up to the standard of 'Canadian hard ; wheat. The land is there, only no , ■Chinese have the grit to - go in and : farm it-on- a large scale. In time we may find the Japanese doing it, They Uav<G not t&e wheat iaocl in, *