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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 21 May 1915, Page 7

Private W. Heaver, who is reported as having been killed in action on May 3rd, was weli known in this district. He worked at Okinawa a:>d at Hawera Dairy factories when he first c-me to New Zealand, and was afterwards travelling representative for Messrs H. I. Jones and Son, of Wanganui. He was attached to the .Field Ambulance Corps. A letter written by nini to a friend in Hawera arrived here en the very day 1 of his death. - "I The present shortage in England of synthetic yellow dyes has put considerable difficulties in the way of manufacturers of khaki cloth. A temporary way out of the difficulty was found, however, by the increased use of fustic, a natural yellow, dyestuff consisting of the wood of a tree (Chlorophora tinctoria), which grows freely in Jamaica, and also in British Honduras. When the shortage at first became apparent, the Imperial Institute took steps to place British dye firms in touch with exporters of fustic in Jamaica. Only a moderate- amount of cut fustic wood was, as it happened, then available in the island, but, as a result of the Institute's action the Government of Jamaica have offered to purchase from the growers further supplies and carry these at Government cost to Kingston, the port of shipment. The Government of British Honduras is also taking action in this matter, and a further supply of the wood may possibly be forthcoming from that colony. Further information on the matter may be obtained on application to the Imperial Institute, South Kensington, London, S.W. In a sermon in Christchurch oh "The , Blood of the Brave," the Rev. J. J. North stated that sixty years ago the pioneers of this country had their, eyes in the direction where the people are looking at present. Florence Nightingale was then doing her immortal work among the miles,, of beds in the rough hospitals of Scutari. The early settlers sent £1000 to help her. Britons were ' lighting then to keep Russia out of Constantinople. They are fighting now to get her in. For the Turk has become, the vassal of German militarism, j-and has, moreover, no rights of blood, ior of creed,' or of culture to the city ithat she holds. In sixty years Russia has proved that she has a soul. Her ; abolition of vodka ranks with America's abolition of slavery. Turkey has proved herself incurable, and is going, bag and baggage." The men who die in the Dardanelles are falling in as noble a cause as men ever fought for. Success at that point means the downfall of the dream of the new Napoleon. There is a genera J belief that the slack silk neckerchiefs in use on British men-of-war is in commemoration of ;he death of Nelson, and that the three ■ows of tape round the collar refer tc lis three great victories, Copenhagen, ;he Nile, and Trafalgar. The three •ows do commemorate those victories, nit the black silk neckerchief was wo.*n ong before Nelson's time, and old irints show that before going into action the sailor was in the habit of stripping to the waist and tying his neckerchief tightly round his forehead, no doubt to mitigate the shock of gunfire. In Nelson's day. however, there was no actual naval uniform. Made with extreme care from the finest materials. SHARLAND'S Bakina Powder is the purest, strongest and CHEAPEST you can buy.—Advt. For Chronic Chest. Complaints 1- Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d.—Advt. ■

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