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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 419, 4 August 1908, Page 4

A correspondent writes to an Auckland paper as follows :—During a special coach journey from Napier to Rotorua two Maori children (a boy and a girl) were seen to emerge from a bush-cleared gully, double-banking a weedylooking horse with tail and mane matted with biddy bids, or burrs, and they accompanied or followed the coach for about ten miles. Questioned by Mr Duncan Rutherford, of Reslie Hills, ■ the boy stated that he and his sister rode 11 miles to school in this way every morning, and returned in the afternoon each day, having a change of horses. On this particular road four hours a day would thus be taken up, which necessitated starting from home soon after daylight in winter, and getting home after nightfall. The children seemed quite happy, and looked forward to Saturday and off for recreation. They are the children of a native shepherd. When a man goes out to buy a collar, he comes back with a collar and perhaps a necktie or two. When a woman starts out to buy a collar, she returns (Mark Twain in Tom Wood’s Magazine observes) exhausted with a new silk waist, a pair of gloves, some skirt bindings, a cake of soap, a paper of pins, some window curtains, a sewing machine, and a refrigerator.

Every lady contemplating the purchase of a New Jacket or Paletot for the coming winter season would do well to inspect the stock of these goods now showing at the Bon Marche, Palmerston North The style, fit, and finish of every garment is exquisite, and the prices most reasonable.—C M. Ross and Co.— Advt. WOLFE’S SCHNAPPS is absolutely invaluable to the traveller.