HONE BACK FROM HIS HOLIDAY.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1668, 30 January 1917, Page 3

HONE BACK FROM HIS HOLIDAY.

Tena koe, Hone; back again? “Py korry, I get te letters from Fred Wood come quick te missis going to drive the cart for Mark Perrean. I send te wire to Tom Powell bring te car to Motuiti to train kill te horse and werry late. ’ And what did you see and hear on your trip, Hone? “Oh, I want to tell you I meet te rangitira from Poneke. lie talk all te same Mita Kapiti. He tell me you come from Foxton, Hone? I tell him yes. He say you got te flea, te flax and 1c fibre there. I say yes, and te river, te railway and te races. Tic say got a lire brigade Hone: 1 say yes .Johnnie (folder tc Knpenc, be ring te bell while te town burn. 1 toil him taihoa, wait till te war stop and Foxton te big place. Phil Hennessy make te big river for te big boat to come up. He say te big men too slow in Foxton. He ask me if Andresen still the Mayor. , 1 Inrp. I say no he only drive te man 1 and Hash cart to tc Reach. He tell me your train 100 much tc hamapacka; one day 1 too late, one day too soon. He say who make te time-table like a da! ? I say I link it was George Coley. And did yon go to the races, Hone.’

“Oh, 1 loose te live quid there. 1 tell Ken. it 1 win I pay my debt, if T loose he loose too; 1 loose and Poukama very wild, he say 1 te porangi,"

“Ka mii te wera, nei /” Ves, 11 oik 1 , it is hoi and dry. ‘Ty korry I tell Timi Stevenson |e grass catch (ire soon. He say I gel him grub up by to roots. .1 tell him yes lot of dry tiling want grub up in Foxion then he come up green. Levin make te clean (own and say (aihoa for le hospital. Palmerston say (aihoa .for te tram car. Foxion say (aihoa for ie water and le drain, 1 tell that rangilira we got le drainage in •Johnston Street, and (e water supply in te Avenue. He say, py korry, Tom Henderson must be waked up; what le ratepayers say? 1 say te big man growl and te little man larp, and te insurance man say kapai. “I say, .M it I a Edita, wltai you link le ballot ?" "Well, Hone, while (he machinery is not perfect, I believe the Government did the right thing in applying it for obvious reasons."

“I iliiiiim (hat talk. But py kripe not le Maori way. Yon tell me before all le young men wiloiil wabme and spoii.-c he not got te big vein in te leg or le asmal. or le roomat. whin lie ie kid, or le squint eye, he must go, isn't it ?" “Yes, they must all go if the doctors pass them as lit," “Werra, py kripe. J link le bally humbug, rat’s it. Te ballot pick out te man wit te wahine ullesame and le young pheiier let off. J sec lot of young libeller in Foxion without (e wahine and he say he go when le Gherman lire ice cream instead le bullet. 1 link te Gowernment take all te men wit out to wahine first (e best wav.

“Yes, Hone, I think the first division should be classified,"

Werra, must go now, my kid got te measle. Good luck!"