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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22478, 12 August 1938, Page 10

“May I be permitted to suggest another avenue of service for this organisation of Scots, asked Captain J. W. Barry at the annual meeting of the Wanganui Highland Pipe Band recently, when he was elected a vice-president Captain Barry suggested that the band should establish contact with a volunteer platoon locally with a view to the development of a Scottish unit in the defence force. The idea met with the warm approval of the meeting, and it was decided that a sub-committee be formed to explore suitable avenues for Wanganui Scots to assist in the project. It was the opinion of the meeting that a Highland company would meet with the warm approval of the community. A Hastings motorist carried an unusual passenger in his car recently. It was a young idonkey, and judging by the efforts made to get it into the car, a very unwilling one. The motorist apparently believed the easiat way of getting his donkey home was to par it m the back of his saloon model car. The donkey had other ideas about travelling, however, and it was only by the combined pulling and pushing action on the part of a number of willing helpers that the animal was embarked.