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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 3 October 1925, Page 5

An Auckland clergyman was recently giving a lesson on the prayer book to a class of Maori boys (says the Church Gazette). He wanted to find out how much they know about the contents of the prayer book, and he asked: ‘ ‘ What service comes after the order for burial of the dead?” A hoy promptly replied: ‘ ‘ Burial of women after childbirth. ’ ’ The prayer book calls it “the thanksgiving of women after childbirth, 5 ' but the boy had probably been reading in the newspapers about the high death rate in maternity cases, and burial after childbirth seemed to him to be the natural order of- things. He was quite surprised when the clergyman pointed out his mistake. Eight hundred tramcars were brought to a standstill for half an hour at the rush-hour in Manchester one evening in August, by the failure of the electric current from Barton generating station, and most of the normal business activity of the city was also paralysed. Electric light failed, and many firms without private supply power had their machinery stopped. Tramcars were affected on all routes, and thousands of people wore delayed in getting home from business. Many decided to walk. For children’s coughs and colds the best remedy is “Kazol.” Agreeable and sale Mme economical than mixtures or wrmis (V| floecx 1h (id, ’ 1 That pungent refreshing aronia which arises from. “No-Subbing Lauii--dry Help” suds is absolute proof of its wonderful hygienic qualities.