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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 26 October 1917, Page 4

At the meeting of the Lmnd Board last week, the following applications to purchase the freehold of their holdings were recommended for the Minister's approval:—Mr Charles Edwin Jopson, leasee section 7, block X, Nastby; Mr John Barton Forrester, lessee of section 4, block Vl.—The Maniotuto County Council forwarded proposals for the expenditure of thirds amounting to £l2B 18a 4d. —Approved. A Gazette Extraordinary proclaim* the requisition of next season's woo' clip for purposes of the war. Wool owners must deliver their wool to a Government woolbroker at certain ports specified Wool bales must be rrop- rlv branded, nnd the woul will t:e classifl d and vabed by two expert valuers, one of whom will be appointed by the Government nnd the other will be enu.loyed by ti>e Government wooibro'*er holding '.re to-.ds. Should the o«nr be disisa; with the ndjuni i-;itnn, he rosy lodge an appeal, an t-ayme-jt of a fee. wh:ch ahall be deeded by a Govcrrment-appointed |.r..r,{ Vi 00l will b= priced according to ti-.e average prices of January, 19 >4. with an addition of 60 per cent! A:.y consignment may be rejected without appeal. Slip* wool produced at freezing works, and any other quality which may be specified in future, is not subj-ci to requisition. If any °-00l owner fails or refuses to deliver wool in acmrdhnee with regulati ns, the wool will be subject to seizure, and may be disposed of as the authorities thirk fit. It was a letter from an Anzac. He hart been buried in a collapsed dug-out for several hours; but during that time | he was comforted, he wrote, by knowing he had sent five Germani to hell. The regimental censor wns a wag, fur 1 e ha'f drawn a thin line through' the Ust word, and had appended the comment: "The enemy's whereabouts mu-t not be disclosed." Journalistic etiquette. Thus Friday's Grey mouth Evening Star: "No Cant," writing to himself, the Argus this morning says: "The value of a thing is just what the buyer will pay for if, and it is conceivable that aom« people would prefer paying twopence for the Argus to getting its evening contemporary for nothing, with a j'ou- fl of tripe thrown in." The trot bk ."s tr.&t the ArgUb could not i ven hold tripe,