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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2733, 30 March 1916, Page 4

Mr. F. Pellow, ,of the Carterton railway staff, has been transferred to Oliaii, and his place at Carterton filled by Mr. E. Sewell. An interesting little ceremony will take plaeo near Kaitoke, on the Rimataka Road, at 11.30 a.m. to-day, when the drilling operations of the Kaitoko Prospecting Company will be commenced. This company, which has a capital of £4000, has obtained drilling rights over a considerable ■ area. of likely country, and have secured one of the latest diamond drills for testing the ground. The operations will be carried out under the ,direction of Mr. Walter Carter, the Government diamolid drill expert. Conveyances will meet the 7.50- a.m. train from Wellington, and the 7.26 a.m. train from Masterton at Kaitoke. , Says a Dunedin paper:'"We are told that in Otago there is not much enlisting to avoid domestic responsibility. It would not, however, bo becoming to take up the Pharisee's attitude and give thanks that wo are not as othor men. To .do so would be to provoke humiliating references to Bomo rather queer individual matrimonial cases. For instance, the doings of a lady whose name is not Constance. She 'chummed up' with a man who was about to enlist, sccurod his promise to marry her when ho retufned, and got an order from him for his pay, then went off to .marry another fellow, and on the way fell in with No. 3, ■ to whom she joined instead. Then there is tlio case of a man who enrolled under an assumed name ,was 'spotted' by his wife in the ranks, and fprced to immediately sign an order in' her favour for his pay, the wife electing to have this done rather than take him homo again. We have also heard of wives whoso daily life is miich more sereno since father left to fight for his country. Such knowledge should keep us humble. Nevertheless, it is a fact that the separations which the war is causing have not in Otago caused any general run'ning away of husbands .for the sake of evading family duties or breaking tedious ties." Since the outbreak of war, the British Government have purchased for the Army 30,033,523 pairs (If worsted socks, 44,602,723 vards of itainiel (enough to make 12,500,000 shirts"), and 4*692,733 yards of white flannel 1 for hospital Shirts.