The Otaki Mail says that a man who was turned down by the Medical Board for heart trouble boasted that on the morning of his examination he had had no breakfast, " but smoked three packets of cigarettes and drank three whiskies." We know a better story than that, says the Taihape Times. It is of a young patriot of a northern town who had a .heart with a leaky valve. Yet he hid that leak from the doctor, underwent those gruelling nine months' training with our Main Body in Egypt, and actually fought for three weeks on Gallipoli before his noart collapsed. He dropped dead in th-a middle of a fierce fight—was not touched by a bullet.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3353, 19 June 1918, Page 30
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