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Waipa Post, Volume XX, Issue 1179, 8 December 1921, Page 2

Mixed timber ipay now be purchased from some of the sawmills on the Main Trunk line at £1 per 100 feet. Bishop Julius was cured of an affected delivery, such as unfortunately characterises so many divines, by hearing an old lady as he came out of church in his curate days, say to a friend: “What*’a pity he squeaks like his vicar!” It was the only lesson in eloention he ever had but it served. Mr A. Seifert stated in Palmerston North that when he was in America recently he had visited the great national Reserve, Yellowstone Park, which was 50 miles long and 40 miles wide. Here many animals and birds were confined. There were a large number of bears. Some were very tame, and often approached tourists and visitors, who snapped photographs at close quarters. On one occasion a lady had been warned to keep her baby child at a safe distance from a large “ teddy” which was ambling around., The docility of the animal prompted her to reply: “ Oh the baby won’t hurt your old bear !”