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Nelson Evening Mail, 29 May 1917, Page 6

Before the First Auckland Military Service Board (says the Star). Mr A. B. Irvine, local manager of the Union Steam Ship Company, in supporting an appeal for the exemption of a steward, said that stewards were very scarce, and .at the present time the shortage, -which had become so acute, .was made evident by complaints of. steamer passengers as ■to the' efficiency of the stewards remaining. The board suggested that perhaps the remedy _.ivas the ' employment of stewardesses.' "This," said •Mr Irvine, "has been talked about, but nothing has been done." He remarked that some Scandinavian steamship lines had done this. With regard to the case under review, . however, stewardesses would hardly be., suitable, ju cargo steamers, where the stewards had chiefly to look after the crews. The question of potato growing on the Lhinedin Town Belt was considered on Tuesday by the Reserves Committee of the Dunedin Council, when it was -decided to recommend that several areas on the belt should be set apart for that purpose- The suggestion is that the ground should be cut up into small sections, each to be worked by one person. The ground will be available to the person taking it up ior two years, or one year after the war ends. The'approximate size of the blocks will be two acres, each of which will be sub-divided into tn sections.

A member of a family with a fine record of military service asked the Military Service Board at Auckland _ on Tuesday to grant him leave until a brother returned from the front. ; The reservist, William B. Ross, telegraph linesmar-, of Uuehunga, said 'he was one of seven sons. If our were at the front, one had- 'been rejected, one had just returned from the front, and. appellant had also volunteered' two years ago for service with the engineers, but -had not .been called up* The Board "saowed some surprise wftien appellant stated that his father had also iust returned from the front. Appellant was granted leave July voth, in view of the possible early return of a brother. EF"" Teacher: "Robert, how is it you have not learnt your lesson? It couldn't have been so very hard to learn." Bobby: "No, please, teacher ; it wasn t so hard to learn, but it was so easy to forget."

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