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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14213, 2 February 1917, Page 4

A Little. Ra^kaia farmer recently had a' very; distinguished gang of harvesters at work oil -his farm.'; The v farmer!started, to reap, his crop, and as soon 'as the machine ■jhfid" got a fair start his jspn began stooking. In a short time a' party, of j^rltlemell f rom : Chriatchurch ,^ho were the week-end at th© Rakaia ."md^hP-solicitbt-s and members, o^:' other 7 professions, togethel* with ; a' , well-ltnowa clergyman— scaled - the 'fence and were soon. hard at work m,. the' harvest field.' The amateurs shaped, remarkably well, and m c, comparatively short ttime the whole crop wasi in* the.' sto'ok. r J,'he kindly action of the weekienders Av;as much .appreciated by the farmer; | Many' people m civil life dbjibti qttife 'realise what an enoniious proportion o± tjie si,x millions or so' of. men m Great BrUaJn Tinder 4^ '-yvbd' hayo ; been put iato khaki q>ve non-combatants. " ' Tne l,{.A.M.d; <tnd- the .Bed prosa account for- a great 1 batch of them;'. the noadi and railway ' services i'oV »:■- ya«t •'■ number 'njore. Whil^ able-bodied ',meiv>areriece«- . siry 1 for- these t^aks ytfnn'g 1 nien very ! o|.ten' aYe not. Thus, -whiid-A #retehef- \ WeaVevtyab tfie front requires ;youtH al v ' most r ; otn'iitJli * 9<f ! any- 'infantryman, it lhbspitS.l orderly' can perfectly well be A nian 'ov^r ; 40; -At any given time tens of ..thousanda 'of soldiera &$» > Employed m i scraping metalling the 'roads— work mat m England the locaJ authorities get done by men over 60; The great task is to sort out-; the men and use them. foV the best purpose. - .