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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2475, 31 May 1915, Page 4

Some amusement was created a littlef while ago when it was th^ there existed at Home a d sar '' l mouth organs." It was realised, though, that what at ordinary times might be a 'matter for congratulation could bo. come a cause of serious regret when War was on. Explanation was found in the fact that soldiers in the trenches, wet and weary in their burrows and due-outs, dearlv loved a song- But bow could there be put spirit into a song without an accompaniment? Thus a. Press correspondent pathetically wrote. "A supply of mouth organs would bo a eodsend." Onoe again New Zealand fame to the rescue. The Bristol Piano Company, Ltd., promptly, communicated with tho High Commissioner, through their London agent. Now our men at the front are not without their mouth organs, and there's music in the air. The War Office has expressed its warm appreciation of the aptitude and geno. rosity of the Bristol Piano Company, Ltd., in presenting these mouth organs t-» the troops.

I THE B.S.A—FAVOURITE VITH MILS I TARY DISPATCH BIDEP.b—AND i "WHY ! It hafi been said, yrith muchi 1 truth, that the business lest is the beet, 1 test of any motor. War is the grimmest business of mankind, and the military motor-cyclist stakes his lite, very often, upon the reliability oi his mount. Horn is what. Sergeant R. E- Schofield, R-E.» senior instructor of the Motor-cycle ».ection at Aldershot, has to say:— everv dispatch rider that has eon© to the front has passed through my banc*. ana lam therefor© 'in a position to judge how the different makes of machine nra in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away the favourite, and it has yet to happen, that a B.S.A. lifts failed to act up to its well-earned repute. . . . I may state tuat sft nor cent, of the machines hero are B.S.A.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Second Cavalry Division, British Expeditionary Foreo, writes in a private letter: "Tho roads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is the goods. I never have to touch it. Tlioy aro the bikes, my boy. They knock tho and any other make you like to mention into a cocked lwt." There are plenty of other letters from the, front, all to thio same effect. Wo avo landing 20 of tho latel model B.S.A.'s ex s.s. Marlborough (his week, and can <;ivo immediate delivery. They aro ideal machines for either solo or side-car «»rvice, and their reliability is famous. Tile b.p. js ii, and (he three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd.. Chri6tchiirc.li-, Wanganui, Palmers, toe North; Sutherland and Raukins. WeU lirteton; Tourist Motor Co.. Haetinc*. Aeenfcs for B.S.A. Motors.—Advt