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Hokitika Guardian, 6 July 1928, Page 1

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BEER. It was a. tribute to the honesty of tho men employed on the breakdown gang after the Pukekohe railway smash that none of the freight was touched. The full truck load of twenty barrels of beer reached its destination intact. Wonder what its fate would have been in France or on one of the Eastern battle fronts. The verg “to scrounge” was given a very wide- interpretation at times, the old army tradition that there is an essential difference beween robbing a pal and filching Government property dying very hard. When- the “Duuster Force” penetrated into the fastnesses of Persia and Asia Minor news came through that there was a convoy of supplies at Sharoban, the Mesopotamia advance base. It was a full three hundred miles, rough country and hard going, from the cavali\ brigade headquarters then at IChnngavar back to Sharoban, but there was no lack of volunteers for escort duty. Those old soldiers must have learnt by some kind of "olcl-soldier wireless” that there were cases of beer amongst the stores. Tire cases were somewhat badly smashed by the time they had been carted through the mountain passes to Khangavar, but you know how rough mountain roads can be. Also “you know what soldiers are!”

The commoiisense remedy, “ Nazol,” goes tight to the root of the trouble, ITor coughs, colds and ail chest and lung cOmplaihts, 89 doses for Is 6d,— Adft.