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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 70, 16 December 1907, Page 8

The Garrison Band (Lieut. Herd, conductor) played a number of appropriate selections at the Botanical Gardens yesterday afternoon. There was a large attendance of the public. A collection to defray the cost of the new instruments. was taken up. Special trains and cheap fares lon the Government Railways, are announced for tho Christmas holidays. ■ The • s.s. Ngapuhi will run on a holiday trip to the North Auckland coast from February It to February.22. v Dr. F. Garcia Webster will shortly return from abroad a:id resume his ■ practice at his consulting rooms, in Woodward Street. A gentleman called at the office of tho l'overty U3a.v "Herald" last week, and lodged a serious allegation against the now water supply. Ho had boon informed on what bo believed to bo good authority thnt the water possessed certain chomical proportios which conduccd to baldness. Oil Saturday lie brought in two of the men who had been engaged on tho works, one of whom, a yoimg man, gavo ocular 'demonstration in support of tho assertion by showing an extensive bald patoji, which ho asserted was not thoro whciu be wont on to tho contract. A number of other men, it was asserted, had lost their hair, and others had shaved tlioirs off in tho hope of averting such a calamity. The story was referred to Mr. Wilkinson, the inspector in charge, who characterises it as ridiculous. No man on the works, ho asserts, has used the water more freely than ho has done, and his fino head of hair has not been affected in the slightest. Ho had not hoard any of the men complain. There were,' it is true, sevoral "baklios" employed on the works, and they were subjocE to i good deal of chaff, but tho loss of their hirsute adornment oamiot be asoribed to tho .water- ■■■■•'