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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18676, 4 October 1922, Page 5

Speaking at a. civic reception at Temuka yesterday (telegraphs our Christchurch correspondent) General Sir Andrew Russell, dominion president of the Returned Soldiers' Association, said that Now Zealand could well he proud of the men who had' fought on the various fronts. Ho <|iiotod tho extraordinary testimony of a. French General who. when addressing young French officers ‘at St. Cyr, chose as a division (out of tho many divisions in Allied armies), which tho young officers should regard as their model, one which was sent, forward in 1918 to arrest, tho German advance, and which at once "inspired confidence in the fleeing population of the town in (he danger zone. ‘‘lt is tho Now Zealand Division," . they said. "Wo need not leave." An Knglish correspondent enters a protest against, the continued use by various writers of the word fiance and fiancee, words, he says, distinctly un-English. Why cannot we coin as a. noun the word "betrothed" from tho verb "to betroth?" Wo already have in use tho beautiful word "betrothal.'’ and how much hotter it _ would sound that So-and-So was prose: l '' with her (or Ins) betrothed. Whooping Cough and '.’reap are rapidly checked by FliC'joi (a/6 and ‘2 u). \Vise mot hors a\oid narcotics .taici always keep Fluenzol La tb* licaes.