SOLDIER AND POET.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13394, 30 May 1914, Page 9

SOLDIER AND POET.

General Sir lan Hamilton, at th» welcome at Palmerston North, showed that hjb knew something about poetry as well as fighting, , and describing, th« southerly blizzard at Takapuu, when he left the camp, launched, forth ai follows ;■ — When next New Zealand's sons yn muster, Beware, my friend, of. the southerly buster ; It turns all Maoriland to flood, Save here and there a lump of nradj It treats the soldiers anyhow. Especially at Takapau. Again, when he -was left to the t«md«r mercies of two ladies at Takapau, wh» had kindly placed'their motor-car at his disposal to «atch the train, he expressed himself out of gratification thus— U, woman on a sunny day You go on any sort of way: But, when it rains at TakapaV A mini»t«ring anjel th»n. * Th« few appropriate Kne* m«t witk