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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 7 September 1917, Page 4

; The Federal Prime .Minister stated that aa a result of negotiations with ; the British Government arrangoments ■ are to be made at once for the storage m Australia of 400,000 tons of floor ; Of this quantity 150,000 tons could be accommodated in the existing buildings. New structures would have to , be provided for the balance, 250.000 tons.

Life is real and life is earnest in the back-blocks. In one of the remote settlements of Taranaki a travelling picture show arrived rec-ntly. and the seven-year -old son and heir of a leading landowner approached his dad with an application for sixpence. "What do you want with sixpence?" said his father sternly. "I want to go to the pictures, dad," said the youngster. Well, you're not going," said the firm parent. "It is only a few months ago that I let yon go to the top of the hill to see the^ eclipse of the moon. D'ye think life's one long rouid of gaiety and gadding about?"—Eltham"Arg U g