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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 64, 10 January 1918, Page 1

Amongst the recipients of NewYear honors figures the name of Lieut -Colonel S. S. Alleu, of Morrinsville, who has been awarded the D.S.O. On December 21st the New Zealand Dairy Association, Limited, distributed amongst its suppliers the sum of £120,224 lis lOd. This payment covered lbs of butterfat supplied during the month of November. To enable the employees of a certain cheese factory not many miles from Thames to get away early on Christmas morning, the manager offered 101 b of cheese to the first supplier arriving with his milk. One smart young fellow arrived at a quarter to three, which we think constitutes a record. Mr. Fraser, the Labour agitator, who has just been liberated from goal, has evidently learned wisdom during his term, for he is credited with the following: "I am not going to say there's no freedom of speech in New Zealand. There is absolute freedom of speech so long as you keep your mouth shut." A touching 6tory is related by a recent visitor to the Wooroloo Sanatorium (West Australia), an iastitution which has been erected by the State Government. Among the patients are some returned soldiers suffering from pulmonary troubles. Recently they became interested in a hut situated about a mile away from the sanatorium. When told it was the home of a young girl suffering from leprosy, they immediately began to devise means to relieve the tedium of her dreadful isolation. Finally a note was sent to the girl explaining the Morse code of semaphore signals. These she quickly learned, and now every day she carries on a conversation with the soldiers by the medium of flags.