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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 5966, 3 August 1912, Page 4

Oi the shipiiviH J oranges which arrived at Auckland from Kuronniga by the Talune on i'Yiday last no fewer than four hundred cases were condemned by the authorities and ordered to be binned. The reason for this step was the, fact that the four hundred rases mentioned were badly infected with fruit maggot.. Two' hundred and fifty cases have already Wven taken to the destructor*, to 'lie burned, and] the remainder o! the cases will be taken there to-morrow. This fruit is the first to be condemned this season. IA certain Mapi'i gautlunian in lihe Wadkato, whose wits occasionally wander, is wont to imagine himself to be all sorts of men. One day when the train came in he imagined he was a policeman, and stalking majestically about keeping order, he noticed a passenger alight from a train with a slight stagger. He appioaohed hkn, smelt his breath, and arrested him. The victim calmly submitted, and the policetmian proceeded to lead his captive to the police sta-. tion. On the way he mjet -a real policeman in uniform. He lxalted his prisoner, saluted, and informed the r-fficer that he had arrested the man. '' On what charge ?" said the oiflioer. '[' Oh, I dunno," replied the Native, "charge the feller ten bob ami let him go." for chronic chest complaints, .Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is , t 6d, 3a 6d.