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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2704, 25 February 1916, Page 8

1). 0. BATES. Meteorological Office, Wellington, February 24, 1916. ■ i' —

There is not much humour in the display of British manufacturers at the Town Hall, beyond the electric iokes that the Marconi wireless cracks at uncertain intervals, hut yesterday tho monotony was broken by a little'incident .which incorporates a Bmilc. Some ladies were inspecting a stall when they chanced to observe another of their sex slip a bottle of lavender water off a stall into her sleeve. Not wishing to bo parties to a "sce'ie" they did not sound an alarm, out quietly followed the delinquent, who vade her way gradually to the entrance—whore to their intense surprise she drew up at the Women's Anti-German League's table (presided over by Miss Beatrice Day), and signed the book of membership. I'erhaps she imagined that the contents of the bottle up her sleeve wore the waters of Cologne in masquerade, and that by "dipping in'.' was giving n blow to German'trade. I heard the trailing garments of the night Sweep through tho boai'dinghouse; I heard a cough and sneeze in corridor, I saw a face so white. I knew the sound and symptom. 6o I rose A bottle to secure; So now lie is roy friend for life. Through Woods' Great Pepucruiiat A Guro,~Ady.t.