PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Marlborough Express, Volume LI, Issue 142, 18 June 1917, Page 8

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS.

Good housekeeper is wanted. A cook-laundress is required.

Motor rim and tyre have been lost. The return of a lost military brooch is desired. '■ '. ~.,-..

'Ploughman cutter wanted

'iiid man for chaff -

: Warm underweai* Clothing Factory.

at the N.Z

Cattle' are offered for sale by A Viekers, stock salesman.

. New lot of costumes and skirts at Thomas's special sale. . '

Gold circlet brooch and bone brooch have been lost.

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Rose and ~'Sheehah, dyers, etc., insert, a riot ice in this issue. E. and »J. Walton's costume sale will lie continued until Saturday next. ; ._ . Ballanfcyne's sale will commence on Monday next, 25th. See',inset circu-' lated to-day. . A special general meeting of the Blenheim Retailers' Association will be^lield on Monday, 25th inst. . ?:Tin2 of the vagaries of the military ballot ivve illustrated by the case of a •Chmfcehurch soldier. He was drawn ir. a.recent ballot, but he showed that li^ had served in Samoa, that he spent six months in camp with the Fourteenth Reinforcements, that he was •employed at the Lyttolton forts for three months, that he was examined recently by a Medical Board arid was declared unfit, that he is forty-six years of age, and fin ally, that|he has a wife and eight children. Two of his sons are serving at the front.

"Much of the success of Rafa" (says Trooper Hughes, in a letter to his parents at Wanganui," was d.ue to the skilful way in which we New Zealanders were", handled by our officers, especially our General, E. W. Chaytur. who, by the way, is a great favorite with all under him. He also did great work at Romani last August. Another splendjd" officer, ■beloved by all his men, is our CO., Colonel (now Brigadier General) Meldrum. For coolness under fire he is second to none."