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New Zealand Tablet, 8 February 1917, Page 36

Napier lias received a regular salt bath, during the last few days, the wind from the sea carrying the salt air all over the town. In some streets the air has been so strong that leaves of trees have turned brown and shrivelled up just as though it was autumn. Speaking at Hastings in connection with the drawing of the fourth military service ballot. Mr. S. E. McCarthy,. S.M., stated that it took them four days to draw the 3000 men in the last ballot, and they anticipated that it would take 10 days to draw the present 10,000.