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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3189, 31 January 1928, Page 4

There was one divorce for every six marriages in the United States in 1926. The chief speaker at a recent Read? ing temperance meeting was the Rev ' T. Caddy. ■ The trunks of ancient forest revealed by the erosion of the Waikato River in its new channel on Waitete Flat at Arapuni are now bare to roofr level and their almost uniform height -is about 40ft., states the N,Z. Herald. Some have been undermined by the water and have,fallen, but many are not now touched by the current and may stand for years as a monument to the works of modern man and as It rer minder to a generation, very* edek-at"-1 hoop about itself, that even the tfunK of a rimu tree may be preserved by swamp water for as long as Pharoah 's mummy—and without losing its bark. Numbers of these trees are still clothed with apparently sound bark.