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NZ Truth, Issue 72, 8 December 1906, Page 5

Why are women so bitter nowadays"? Their position has improved enormously of late years ; their liberty is uncontrolled, their powers acknowledged, and yet every book a woman writes is full of gibes and cynical sneers.— Lady Violet Greville, ; m the "Graphic." There is no room left for doubt that the Crown did its level best to sheet home the charge of theft against Policeman Jeremiah O'Brien. He was nrosecuted by Crown Prosecutor Mvers m the Police Court ; twice the bewigged Myers keel-hauled him m the Criminal Court, and O'Brien will probably go through life haunted by Myers. The activity of the Crown, anyhow, is wholesome. It showed at least a p-enuine regard for the public against buccaneering bobbies. Taumarunui, on the,, North section of the Main Trunk Line, is publess, and loud and long are the laments thereat. The local Press is urging the necessity of adequate water supI ply. and says the warm summertime !is Upon Uicin. The journal is still ! firina acrid jets of sarcasm at the Maori Land Board, which apparently .rules the rooat, and says "It is one !of the dead failures of Maori town- ■ ships Hint there appears to\be no ; v/av of financing, even for health re- ' quirements."