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Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18384, 4 July 1917, Page 2

During tEe laet heavy rainstorms a large quantity of stone and gravel were brought down, the Wadotahi. flume, anJ the harWr master found it necessary to dear away a channel for ithe storm water, to prevent tailing* toeing washed down into the gutter alongside the wharf. TKa glitter had got slightly out of its course, Tight under the steamer's bow, and the harbour master Ih&nded to have it straightened -while the steamer was away. It had also been necessary to repair a Break in the sod wall of the big gutter carrying the overflow from the Waiotahi and Moanataiari creeks. The limit of patriotism was reached when milady began wearing the American flag embroidered upon the ankle of hr silk hosiery, a vogue which has obtained considerably in society circles where the females are ahvays straining m%ht and main for some new fad or device. But milady's ankle appears to be in the censored zone, for the American mi'itury authorities, insisting that '.his lowly position of the national emblem was .beneath the dignity of the American emblem, "have ordered the manufacture of the patriotic stockings to be. stoppei. As one very comely saleswoman put it: 'What patriot would want <fco wear the American flag at ncr feet?' Gahagan's Great dean Sweep Salce I commenced to-day (Friday). Don't ! niis? this opportunity of securing seasonable winter goods ait bargain prices. We are out to make this sale a great moneysaving event. Gahagan's (late Wylie's) Pollen St., Thames.—Advt.