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Matamata Record, Volume II, Issue 111, 19 December 1918, Page 4

Writing to a New Plymouth friend, a settler from one of the Main Trunk towns says things there are something terrible. He relates a case in point. A settler, his wife and two children were down. He could not get medicine or a doctor, for none were available. He did his best for his wife and children. One of the children died. He tried to get an undertaker, but could not do so. He buried the child himself on his own place. Then the other child died, followed quickly by the mother. He buried them both in the same place. And now the father is expected to succumb. It is one of the most harrowing incidents that has ever been recorded. There is considerable talk in French motor car circles about a new move which is now in progress. Several factories of a large size are to be organised during the war, the object being to put on the market aftor the war a car which will be sold at a price much below that of tho 1914 car. In this connection the Renault, Panhard, Citroen, and Berliet firms are named, but nothing can be stated with certainty, except that the Berliet company of Lyons has now been reorganised at a capital of £2,000,000 with the object of building standard types of car on a large scale. These will be much improved over former types and will sell at a low price.