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Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 23 December 1927, Page 9

There is an 81-year-oid woman living in Islington, All’s Sliaw, who can remember when King Edward was a young army officer and had liis charger taken into the mess-room, where be rode it over the tables to .show off his riding skill. Mrs Shaw was horn in barracks, married a soldier, and has five soldier sons. Her father was at Waterloo, and her brother sounded the charge for the Light Brigade. One of her sisters was given a military funeral because of her courage in the Indian Mutiny. Like the terrors of a nightmare were the sensations experienced on AVednesday (says the “Chronicle”) by a AVanganui constable who sprinted up A7ictoria Avenue hotly pursued by a bull. The constable first became involved in the incident when a drover, who had successfully negotiated the Town Bridge with a mob of cattle, raised his voice in eager frenzy and stockyard eloquence when a big Hereford bull broke loose from his companions and went careering up the street. The earnest if forceful appeal for assistance resulted in the man in blue dashing out into the road to head off the oncoming animal. The bull had eased up, but as soon as he saw the uniform he put his head/ dovm and his tail up, and made straight/' for the constable. I knew he meant business, and I did not stop running until I reached McGruer’s corner,” said the constable when he later told of his hasty retreat and the timely arrival of the drover and his dogs.

Throughout the world 672,486 girls and women now belong to the Girl Guides’ movement. This figure represents an increase of 59.277 on the number for last year. In the British Isles alone there are 402,934 Guides and Guiders.