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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume XXVI, Issue 1281, 19 August 1930, Page 1

neither feed nor water for stock and on \ one area alone they had to kill 60,000 sheep because there was neither food nor water for them. One Australian was twitting me and said : ' 'Wherever you New Zealanders or English go, you always form a club of some sort, and always hang tog-ether". I replied that Australians otfght to do likewise and form Clubs m .both England r and New Zealand. I got this reply froma lady who) was a leading light m the Country Woman's Club: "Oh, Australians are peculiat m that respect. After -feihg m England or New Zea : land for a few years, they lay claim to be either Englishmen or New Zealanders. I have been up country foT five -weeks and thereby imissed a big Social Evening and a Morning Tea at David Jones, given m honour of Mr and Mrs Schmidt, who are visiting here and are being entertained by the N.Z. Club.. From last Monday, the letter rate is twopence and all the papers are half -penny dearer. We are told to cheer upi regarding the extra taxes, because we are thereby paying for the Premier and Ministers to have a jolly jaunt to Europe. THE WANDERER.