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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 138, 7 December 1918, Page 7

Bicycles left standing at the kerb or in • doorways have been disappearing in wholesale fashion lately, the perplexed owners in some cases finding them later a few blocks away (reports the Dunedin Star). Investigation by a constable has solved the mystery. A lad of nine years is the perpetrator of the trick. His self-confessed practice was to mount the first bicycle he found, ride it till he came across another, and then pursue his. joy ride on this one, and so. on ad infinitum. In one evening he commandeered four cycles in this fashion. It was his habit to leave a machine, when it had served his turn, up against some doorway. In a recent speech mx England the Right Hon. J. R. Clynes, M.P., Food Controller, said that not only did food suplies come into direct • conflict with military tonnage, but England was in the matter of me3t prices driven almost on to a single market, that of North America, which happened to be the dearest market in the world.- To make the most effective use of our shipping we had to leave most of the good but cheap meat in Australia and New Zealand, and bring meat instead from America because the journey was shorter. Those who talked of a meat mystery in discussing meat prices were only mystifythemselves and the public. We were buying our meat in conjunction with the Americans,' and ;were paying the same prices At they paid, and prices had not risen .morris too united Kingdom £haa ekewiewL ,