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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 11368, 15 October 1917, Page 8

Speaking- on the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement Act Amendment Bill, Mr E. Newman (Rangitikoi) said that the Bill showed evidence of having keen drawn np hy a man wiio thoroughly understood his business. The success of the soldiers’ settlements so far had been in a great measure due to the extreme interest taken in the matter by the Land Boards. Tno soldier’s great difficulty was in the lirst year or 18 months’ and during that peirod ho needed all the sympathy the Minister and the Land Boards could afford him. It would be a very good thing if there was more co-operation in the purchase of expensive implements. On each settlement there should bo an experienced farmer who could act as the agent of the Government and take charge of the implements, thus obviating needless purchase by all soldiers on the settlement of implements of the same kind. Another matter which the Government must seriously consider was tho provision of schools in districts where soldiers were to be settled. (Hoar, hoary From out of a hundred applicants, the Hawke’s Bay Agricultural and Pastoral Society appointed Mr A. M. Retemeyer, of Napier, as secretary vice Mr Charles Douglas resigned. ' Tho Rev. .1. R. Burg in, military chaplin, will give an address in St. Stephen's Schoolroom, Marton, tomorrow evening, giving Ids experiences on the Somme, etc. A charge of Is will be made for admission. During tin 1 sermon in one of the Wellington churches, tin' minister asked the question: “When are wo going to win the war?” A member of the congregation created a mild sensation by quickly replying, ‘"Never !” It is understood that the iutoriector was a foreigner, and the matter has been placed in the hands of the police. You wanlin’t buy cheap egg' — then '-viiy buy cheap tyres? tJLi’s(JIiFR TYI4ICS, tbo all-British Tyre is not the cheapest, but the least expensive. See?

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m iii<: hkv. .J, !t. ivri?(nx. '* itary ('ha.plain. Mill adtlross a mooting in S;. Stephen's Schoolroom. .Marion, TO-KfISROW (Tuesday / October liith. a! -S o cluck, jMvin.u his experiences on the Somme. etc. Admission Is. V. 11. KITCAT.