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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 14 June 1917, Page 3

A girl charged with stealing highexplosive said she took it "to cure her corn." Not the first time corns have been blasted. %

Someone has discovered that ths Kaiser's crimes number 666, the number of the Beast. Personally we don't care what the beast's number is so long as it is up.—Bystander,

A trawler one evening came into a port where lay at anchor a destroyer flotilla. She dropped her •* hook " foul of the first and second ships, and the efforts of the officer on watch to move her were fruitless. On the matter being reported to the Commodore, he went aft and hailed the intruder: " Hullo, there you're foul of my billet, and you must clear out. I'm in command of this flotilla —who are you?" Back came the answer appalling in its audacity: "Ah'm the Star o' Bethlehem and Ah're BQ i f or th' night,''