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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1686, 22 June 1904, Page 77 (Supplement)

Shaking at tin* annual dinner of the North Otago Mounted Rifles, Colonel Robin said that t lie country had never required soldiers and men trained for soldiering more than at the present time. It was the bounden duty of every man who had had the opportunity of seeing a littie service to do what he could to promote volunteering.

The throwing open for settlement of the Mount Vernon estate has induced the Hawke’s Bay Land Board to recommend the Government to reserve a patch of limestone’on the estate between Waipawa and Waipawamata stream* ami to make provision for holdings from-? about forty to sixty acres for working men. V \'.v . -