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Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1371, 24 March 1923, Page 8

Dr Tillyard, of Nelson, says: '‘When iron bark poles are imported into New Zealand for telegraph or telephone use every piece of bark hanging on them should be destroyed by lire. No group of trees is subject to more pests than the eucalyptus. You have two bad eucalyptus pests now, and you can’t risk having any more. 'lf you must have eucalyptus poles see that they are treated completely in Australia.” Writes a southern friend: “When Jack came down a week ago for the races he was ‘ fresh.’ He startled the starched ladies-in-waiting at a swell boarding house by adding ‘ and a ?weet smile’ to his orders. The city has tamed him to such an extent that he gets up at daybreak and walks out into the suburbs to enjoy the familiar sound of crowing roosters. In the depth of his misery yesterday morning he asked for kidneys and bacon and a kind word. ‘ Where’s the kind word?' he asked when the food arrived. The starched miss looked to see if the queen of the hash-house was on her throne, and then whispered, “ f know the cook —don’t eat them.”