THE BRITISH OFFICER'S CANE
Nou have noticed the short yellowknobbed cane that is carried by all officers of the British army and very many private soldiers? It is a cane that before the war had no existence, and is now übiquitous. Small fortunes have been made out of it, yet 110 one comes forward to claims its invention. Its price at all places is Is, but its name varies. It is bilhd variously at shop doors as the army stick, the Whangec cane .the Panama short, and the swagger cane. The real swagger can?, though, is of older date, and is as a nile a. short piece of cane, or other Hexibli material, with a ferrule at each end. One vendor of the knobbed article said its name was imitation malaria," but sho meant imitation Malacca.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16050, 16 October 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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136THE BRITISH OFFICER'S CANE New Zealand Herald, Volume LII, Issue 16050, 16 October 1915, Page 5 (Supplement)
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