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Manawatu Times, Volume 63, Issue 62, 15 March 1938, Page 6

“The Englishman seems to havo absolute faith that England will ‘turn up trumps’ if trouble comes, and he believes that there are tremendous reserves somewhere,” said Mr. R. H. Livingstone, of Christchurch, who returned last week from a year’s visit to England and the Continent, in an interview. ”1 believe, however, that he is trusting in something yet to be proved,” he said. ‘‘They are working at full speed producing armaments, chiefly aeroplanes, in shadow factories, but there is still a tremendous amount to be done. The English troops work with a somewhat carefree attitude when compared with the rather more serious attitude of European troops.” Mr. Livingstone, as an officer of the Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry, was attached to the 12th Royal Lancers at Tidworth, Salisbury Plains, for three weeks,

The emblem of the bilver fern, now famous as the badge of New Zealand representatives of sport, was first made and issued in Sydney, Mr. A. M. Hale, manager of the New Zealand rowing team at the Empire Games, told members of the Blenheim Rotary Club recently. A silver fern had been seen in tue window of the well-known Sydney jewellers, Kerrs, in 1886. by Tom Ellison, when he was in Australia with a Maori football team, and he had ordered 50 of them. They had gone like “hot cakes” and a further 150 had been made, fcincc then the silver fern had become a national institution,