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Colonist, Volume LX, Issue 14893, 16 October 1918, Page 2

During a visit to Rangicra, tho lion. J. A. Hanan said that eventually. New Zealand was going to be a country' i;f sin all holdings and more intensive *cultivation, and more attention must bo paid to agricultural education.

Bishop Cleary, in an address on tho war, at Auckland, related how the ISicw Zealand soldier in France is wont to give a fair amount of time to sport. He described how a Maori pioneer showed his great love for stalking a hare hy continuing the pursuit amidst ureat danger, while the Bishop and his friend were repeatedly fenced*to seek cover. It of or ring to the habits of rabbits and hares at the front, lie said they were very frolicsome, particularly in. No Plan's Land, and repeatedly came ri^ht up to.the firing line.

"Easily tho host soldiers at 'the* front," was a returned iUascerton soldier's comment on tho Australians. The soldier, who returned'*homo niter having seen nearly throe ~e:u\s J- sen Ice in France, said that it disgusted 'him to hear the. piffle some people"talked about Australia being a "land of shirkers; They seemed to forget that Australia had sent well over 300,000 men to t!;<; war, and that further volunteers wove continually reinforcing the Ausfcvalinxs at the front. The Australian soldiers v themselvos. he said, would, dearly love to have «■ "heart-to-heart" talk to there people in New Zealand who speak disnarapiincrly of Australia. wfum thoie ignorant and misguided individuals would probably hear some homo truths they ■•would not relish.