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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14195, 12 January 1917, Page 7

The ratepayers of Picton have before them a proposal to raise a loan of £6845 for the purpose of installing an electric light plant. An old couple, each of whom for the second time approached the altar at Charleston, on the West Coast, the other day, have more than done their duty to the State. By their previous marriages they brought into the world a total of twenty-one children, one having- a family of ten and the other of eleven. The bridegroom has two sons' at the front and the brides one, another about to depart, and two brothers in camp. When you have a sick, nauseous taste in the mouth, a few doses of Sharland's Magnesia will put yon right.* Four skeletons of the extinct moa have lately been found by Mr. E. E. Voile; at Broadlands, Waiotapu — three in one group, and th© fourth in the same neighborhood, about 100 yards distant. The find of moa bones in the Eumice country of the North Island is y nO means new, but none ar» known to have been met with hitherto within 40 miles of the locality of the present discovery. The skeletons were covered with pumioe to a depth, of several feet, and evidently belong to a small specimen of the moa, which would, when erect, stand 4ft or sft in height. Ladles:— When you are asked to pass the mustard For some appetite to tickle, Don't forget to remind your friend Of the delicious MILITARY PIOKLI.