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Hokitika Guardian, 22 January 1917, Page 2

Juat landed at Pollock and Bevan’s choice peaches, plums, tomatoes and nectarines.. —Advt. “You have not got as much intelligence as I thought you had,” eaid the military counsel to a farmer witn> es at the Military Appeal Board at Palmerston North. “You have got every right to think that ; I would not be milking cows if I had much,’’ declared the witness, amidst laughter. The Wellington Post says.—Returned visitors from the Westland jubilee meeting speak in glowing terms of the excel* lence of the carnival, and the huge amount of joviality handed out to visitors by the good people of the Coast. The Westland Racing Club (Hokitika) is quite up-to-date in its appointments. There is a ha ids-'me ney H owards’ stand now, end a good silent machine The people of the Coast a>-e more considerate than most eommuu ties. “ The conscientious objectors,” stated the Defence Minister ( he Hon J. Allen) recently, “ are required to 6ign a declaration thut they are willing to take an alternative service in place of war service ; and we are threshing out now what form that service shall take. It has been suggested that conscientious objectors should take up non-combatant work in and about the camps, but some of them object to doing any work that has any connection at all with the war. At Home, I know, such men have been put to do road work, and so forth ; but we have not decided yet what to do with them here.”

At Hokitika, says tlie Wellington Post, the Pacing Club has a stand especially for mental defectives. Those unfortunates are treated to the day’s spo-t just as their more lortunate brethren and vsistern. They are conveyed to the course in drags and regaled with the potions of the days, just as the others are. They have their own methods of betting, and it is said that hundreds of thousands are wagered on each race. It is a good job that there is not a settling day in the institutions, otherwise some of the inmates would be stone broke for years to come. The cable news in this issue ascredited to the “ Times ” has appeared in that journal, but cnly where expressly stated is such news the editorial opinion of the “ Times The National Drink of Australasia — WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS.