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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXVII, Issue LXXVII, 30 May 1919, Page 8

BUSINESS NoTlw£B Smithi and-Easton advertise elsewhere' full particulars, of their mart Kale to be held to-morrow at the Central Mart, at 1.30 p.m. The same firm will also hold a sale of household furniture and effects on account of Mrs G. Butler, at her house, corner of Tawhiti and Ohangai roads, on Wednesday, June 4, at .12 noon 6harp, full list of- which will be published to-mor- : TOW.' ■•■■./.■ ' • - ' . '

The Itimutaka, on the voyage to New Zealand, put into Newport News on the * voyage out in order to take in some 4000 tons of coal for the New Zealand / Government.'. This long stay in port enabled the menV obtain shore leave to visit places of interest in the vicinity. Newport News itself is a straggling little port, mostly born of the war, but across Chesapeake Bay lies Norfolk, the old capital of Virginia, when that State was an English colony. Several of the men made the trip across th© bay to the od town, and enjoyed their experience immensely. The long stop enabled a few to pay a visit to Washington, but for the great majority the railway fare (£8 odd) was too much for them to afford, especially after the fortnight's leav c they had just enjoyed in London. All on board keenly appreciated the trip through the Panama Caual. As the transport had bunkered at Newport News there was no excuse for delay there, and there was no shore leave granted in the Canal zone, but all along the, banks, from Colon to Balbao, wherever there was any settlement, the people gave the soldiers a rousing welcome "over the side." "Worm-fishing is sheer butchery," said a member of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society the other night. "No more unsportsmanlike method, of taking trout could be devised." It was the habit of some.fishermen- to put lines wdth worm bait into the Hutt river, rest comfortably on the bank until the float sank, and then pull the fish in. This practice^ said the member, ought to be stopped. "Don't trust the Germans!" is now an American motto. It might have taken Uncle Jonathan a long time to frame the motto, but he has now learnt it off by heart. Whilst the Rimutaka was at Newport News, a good number of her returning soldiers whilst on shore leave visited a big military camp near that port, and there saw men still undergoing training as though the war were still on. The sight, which was interesting to the New Zealand soldiers, who had been through the rough and tumble of actual war, was a symbol that America was prepared for any eventuality in Europe. * Changeable weather produces colds, j They are quickly relieved by "NA-: ZOL." This remedy is equally efficaci- j ous for young, old, or middle-aged per«ons.—Advt.