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Tuapeka Times, Volume XLVII, Issue 6395, 23 September 1916, Page 4

• The quantity of grain carried over Ihe Southland railways for the week ended September Jl was 7071 sacks, compared with. iMSI! sacks for the corresponding; week of hist year. The total amount compared with 500,421 sacks for the corresponding period of last year. '' The time is nol opport line for an electric light or power scheme at Masterton." said Councillor Temple al a BorCouncil meeting (states Ihe Wairarapa Times). " Ten or 15 years hence it may be," he added. The -Mayor remarked [hat he did not know of any electric scheme in' Xew Zealand which could bo called a good business proposition. Mr T. M, Wilford, M,l\, told the National Reservists at their social gathering in Wellington how, in 1903. ho and a friend travelled by rail from Krupp's works at Kssen to Brussels. On either side of the line they were travelling on was another line on which the grass was growing a foot deep, and those two lines ended at the Belgian frontier. (Hear, hear. " It i» very significant,"he said to his friend, u those two railway lines cud at the Belgian frontier, and come direct from Krupps." " I'm trying to do my best to get the world full of people, and I got summoned ior it," complained a defending t at the Auckland Police Court, wdien : ho was charged that he had failed lo | send one of his children regularly to He explained 1 hat he was sending seven or eight children to the, school, and all of them had good attendance records, but on this occasion the boy, avlio was the subject of the charge, .was confined to kegp house, as the ! father had to con twine at his work. Vlf ;it wasn't for nic and two.or three other ! families at Kllorslie," he stated warm- ; ly to the truant officer, u you would not be- able t<rget a job.''