A mew patient, a. wounded soldier, at hospital, regarded with some apprehension the number of fellow suffererers who were carried into the ward. The man in the next bed remarked: "They're terrors for operatin' on you here. The bloke over there had erysipelas, amdi they cut his ear off. The chap next to him had ptomaine poisoning and they cut 'off his toe." "By ci'ipes, this is no -good to me," cried the new patient in alarm. "Where's me clothes? I've simgin' noises in me head!"
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 October 1916, Page 3
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86Untitled Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 October 1916, Page 3
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