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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 8

According to the Otago Daily Times, the party of,, military defaulters who were recently arrested at Elfin Bay (Lake Wakatipu) during their peregrinations took up the role of surveyors in searth of , water power whereby electricity conld be . generated on a large scale. It is most amusing to read of the advice given to them by the citizens of the towns they temporarily visited re-, garding the locality of waterfalls and' "of the probability of the success of their venture. One of the defaulters,carried' an imposing-looking roll of parchment under his arm and talked learnedly on surveying.; but, as the record reads, the parchment was blank, and came in handy to keep out a draught from a broken window in the huts visited. One of the adventurers visited the church at Glenorchy, but the precepts of the officiating clergyman failed to impress him; in fa,ct, the defaulter states he felt like contradicting him every . two , minutes. The one redeeming feature of the' clergyman was his acoentr—it betokened that he -was a Scotsman. Perhaps ths most arresting, piece of information in the record is the story of the banding over of an introduction from a wellknown Dunedin citizen to a Southland gentleman, who in his time has sought a seat in Parliament without success, and their hearty welcome as a result of that introduction. Lieutenant Harry Pettit, who waa recently awarded the Military Crow, U ft •on of Mr. J\ Ct Petfeit, o* Nelson* ' (