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Taranaki Daily News, 13 September 1926, Page 6

Some of the German letters which passed through her hands when acting a« censor for the War Office, said Mrs. Kenneth Gordon at Auckland last week were amusing. Some of the men got tired of being asked by their relatives in Germany, why they let themselves become prisoners, and one wrote back: “You ask me how became a prisoner of the British. It was by dropping, my gun, holding up iny, hands and then waltzing to the rear like a dancing bear.” When nothing was heard of (he capture of Zeppelins and submarines she knew by the German leb ters that they were being swept from th* seas. One man wrote back to Germ an jl that “he had arrived in England by stepping into the U boat in Flanders and disembarking in England -but not according to plan.”

Unusual facts were revealed in a case in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court, in which a man applied for the cancellation of a maintenance order made against him in April for the support of his son’s child, and for the remission of the arrears. The evidence showed that the father of the child had left on an overseas yessel, ajjd his wife could not locate him. The wife had succeeded in obtaining an ord*r against the grandfather. Then the child’s father returned to New Zealand, and was arrested in the ordinary way, but the grandfather entered into a bond of £2OO for the regular payments of the maintenance. The son disappeared and rhe grandfather fell into arrears, as he was buying a property to further his livelihood, that of a poultry farmer, and could not keep up the payments. After hearing the evidence the magistrate, Mr. Page, agreed that under the circumstances the complainant, could not make the payments, and accordingly cancelled the order and remitted the arrears.

“I had been drinking fairly heavily at Lyttelton, Y’our Worship, and when I woke up on the ship 1 had no knowledge of how I came aboard.” This was the explanation made by .Arthur Veitcher, a cook, aged 63, who admitted a charge at th* Wellington Court of stowing away on the s.s. Maori from Lyttelton to Wellington. His Worship convicted the accused, and ordered him to come up for sentence when called upon within one year, and to pay £l, the amount of his fare within one week.

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Before ending their sale, Messrs. C. C. Ward Ltd., the busy cash drapers, New Plymouth, ate making further reductions on many scrvcieable lines. W* must have room for the new season’* goods, therefore many of these line* must be cleared. Seize the opportunity to save on every purchase. Saving money by buying better good* at * cheaper price etin be accomplished at M.Grtter’s, who are making a further ledm-lion of prices for t'.ie tael. ’ Jew d.t i s of t :teir -a !e.