NEWS AND NOTES.
Wife (with newspaper) : “It says here that men grow bald because of the intense activity of their brains.” Hub: “Exactly ! And women have no whiskers because of the intense activity of their chins.”
According to a recent letter received from Homo (states the Hastings Tribune) a well-known Hawke’s Bay man, who is at present residing in Paris, has no fewer than twenty motor-cars constantly employed, at his own expense, in connection with' the ambulance transit system with the British forces in France.
A macrocarpa tree on the property of (he late Mr Wilson Hursthouse near Fort Niger’, felled a few days ago, measured on the ground line 33 feet in circumference (says (he Taranaki Herald). Planted some seventy years ago, this was probably one of the largest trees in New Zealand planted by a white man.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1601, 22 August 1916, Page 4
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139NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1601, 22 August 1916, Page 4
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