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Levin Daily Chronicle, 6 April 1918, Page 4

A record sale of peas was made in Rangiora on Tuesday, a line of 1500 bushels of Imperial Blues being sold at 20s per bushel (states the Christchurch Press). Some doubt appears to exist as to whether sugar can be sent to New Zealand soldiers through the Post Office. Enquiries made of the Chief Postmaster clicitcd the reply that sugar and other articles of food may be included in parcels sent to any soldier on active service. There has been a serious shortage of chaff in Auckland during the summer (reports the New Zealand "Herald"), and prices have risen to an abnormal figure, last week's quotations for chaff ranging from £11 to £12 a ton._ Local merchants state that the high prices for chafli are due to scarcity of supplies, the usual shipments from the South not having come to hand. Writing to a friend in Auckland, Private Anthony Joss, a well-known Aucklandcr, says:—"The days roll on with the same monotonous regularity, and still there seems little sign of the war ending. lam not going to tell you any War Office secrets, neither am I going to tell you when the war is going to end, but if it doesn't end soon I shall eat my identity disc so that nobody can tell who I am. lam sleeping in about six feet of water, but the food and the work all seem to agree with us chaps out here —that we are laying on, a goodly supply of fatty tissue. There are some very nice houses here of concrete and iron, made by Fritz, and he strives day in and day out to make an impression on our homes with the outputs from his Krupps factory. I am making a collection of souvenirs, and have added to my list one water cart, one rum jar, two tanks, and a German army corps. It is strange to hear those poor Germans talking a few feet away from us; they talk with their hands, and we can generally grasp their meaning, when we spray a machine on to their hands, waiving about above the trench. It is very cold out here now, and the only way to obtain heat here is to get in the path of a Bhell, which heats the air as it passes through."

Only the best is good enough 1 for your family—use "Hudson's Balloon "Brand'"—the absolutely pure baking powder. T. Broome, Levin.