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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 28 September 1917, Page 3

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The Minister or Defence has been j adv'sed that the first and second por- i tions of the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements have reached a port of call. J The Military Medical Board sat at' Ranfurly on Monday and Tuesday, I when a large number of recruits were! examined. There were a good many ! •'rejects." Two young Naseby volun-! teers, T. Graham and E. Marslin have ! successfully passed the medical test. > The Minister of Defence has received information that the second portion of the Twenty-eighth Reinforcements has reached its destination. { A message to the London Daily Ex- i press on August 14 stated:—rAddress- ! ing a gathering of personal friends at ; | Petrograd, M. Kerensky said:—lam. suffering from an hereditary disease, ' and have not long to live. I must hurry , up my work of liberating Russia. \ Peace now would mean that the Rus- i sians in future would be the vaßsals of ! the Kaiser instead of the Tsar. This would be worse than ever. ' We understand that a meeting of Central Otago publicans is to be held at Clyde on Monday' next. The business to be decided is the question of the charges to be made. In view of the increased 'cost of liquor, to say nothing of the compulsory six o'clock closing, which comes into force on November Ist, we can appreciate the necessity for a revision of the tariff. How about reducing the size of the glasses? or better still, why nqt sell by measure? The storekeeper does not permit his customers to help themselves, and it seems to us a silly business the publican doing so. --Dunßtan Timeß.