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Waipa Post, Volume XXI, Issue 1280, 12 August 1922, Page 7

Pinus insignis timber is at present being railed away from Cambridge to Palmerston North.

“ The .'New Zealand Infantry in the war never let the enemy get through them once. The highest praise is due to them because they never gave the Huns a chance. There was not one occasion on which they broke through for even -two minutes.”—Lieutenant R. E. Bennett, in proposing the toast of “Kindred Service's:,” at the First Brigade N.Z.F.A. reunion in Wellington.

People are apt to -think that when a man loses his sight he loses his -senses also, Mr Clu-tha Mackenzie, M.P., told a Masterton audience at the Opera House. He illustrated his point by relating several humorous stories against himself. "When I go visiting,” -he .said, “ my hostesses seldom treat me as a normal person. They always inquire about my likes and dislikes from other people, as though I was not capable of giving a lucid answer myself. Does he take -sugar in his tea ?” or ‘does he eat cake ?’ is a type of question often put to my friends. My secretary was having his hiair cut the other day when -the barber said to him, ‘ Poor Mackenzie ! He would have had brains if he had not lost his sight.’ ” Mr Mackenzie joined in the laugh -that followed.