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Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1915, Page 3

An amusing story is being told of * J ticket which did not stay in its right place. The comedy was enacted in a Now Plymouth shop window, in ■which was exhibited a leather waistcoat with a small ticket attached indicating that live thousand or these were needed fur our representatives at the front. iNeedless to say the waistcoat was a source of great interest to relatives and friends of soldiers; but oven to. the attention it attracted was nothing to the consternation the elusive ticket caused later in the day. By some means it was displaced and fell on to some feminine garments of a flimsy nature, and for some hours a delicate j article of clothing which shall be I nameless (it was white and had pretty lace trimmings) "bore the proud announcement: "Five thousand of these wanted for our soldiers I" "Now Gladys, get on max gas box. It's time all young girls were in bed; The nights are too oold for love nonsense, And you have a bad cold in yom head." ~. "O, mamma, it's eo warm in this corner, I There's no need to worry, I'm sure, t For Bertie's just brought me a bofctli i..? Of Woods' Great PepperrDjntOgre/