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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2742, 10 April 1916, Page 4

"When is a man 45?" was'a question which occupied, the attention of the Timaru . Presbytery on Tuesday, when it was announced that a member of the Presbytery (the Rev. W. F. lSvans) had offered liiß services as a chaplain with the New Zealand Forces, and liad baen refused because he was over the age limit of 45. Mr. Evans said lie was only two or three days over 45. He had offered his services when tho- war first broke out, and had been trying to get away ever since. He had had a great deal of correspondence with the authorities in Wellington, but could get no further forward, because they, said he was over the age limit. He contended that this was not so, and that he could'remain of military age until he turned 46. His application had been in before that of another member of the Timaru Presbytery— Chaplain : Captain King—who had been to the front for more than a year and was _now back among them again. He considered that he was not being quite fairly treated, and that, as ChaplainCaptain King was now finally discharged, lie (the speaker) ought to be taken in his place. The Presbytery sympathised with the Rev. Mr. Evans in' his zeal for war service, and unanimously decided strongly to urge the Defence Department to allow him to fill the vacancy caused by the return of Chap-lain-Captain King. Sergeant G. L. Colo and Private B. FT. V. Harkess, two membors of the Christchurch staff of the National Mortgage and Agency Company, Ltd., ivere farewelled by their brother officers oil Saturday, 'when each was the recipient of a presentation by the manager. Messrs. Cole and Harkess are leaving with the Twelfth Reinforcements. Jones: "I don't see your hnsband at the club of late, 'Mrs. Brown?" Mrs. Brown: "No, he 6tays at home now and enjoys life in his own way, as I want him to." Jimmie Willis: "What are you going to be when you grow up?" Tommy Gillis: "An American bandit in Mexico.!' "But ain't that dangerous?" ".\aw, Neither side orb shoot you for fear of causing international com plica' 'tions,".