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Thames Star, Volume LXI, Issue 16781, 27 January 1927, Page 5

A neighbour’s children playing with matches cost Mr. Stanley Jellvman, of Rapaura, about £2OO a few days ago, two large stacks of barley, valued at about £IOO- each, being destroyed by a fire which was started by the youngsters, although they had b<?en warned only two days previously of the danger of playing with matches (states the Marlborough Express). The barley, which was being grown under contract for N.Z. Breweries, Ltd., was a very fine Crop, the yield being estimated at about 50 bushels t° the 1 acre, and Mr. Jelly man was, it is understood, uninsured. It is a good and safe rule to sojourn in every place as if you meant to spend your life there, never omitting an opportunity of doing a kindness or speaking a true word, or making a friend.