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Nelson Evening Mail, 26 September 1916, Page 1

A casualty list reports that 2nd laeu« tenant C. D. P. Topliss has been wounded. .'' '"•■,■.'.'■' Scot (at the baths)— What's the price of a bath ? Scot—Hech,, man, that't a- lot. /-Qanfrye no say. sixpence and put in leps water?.: . .'.The: possibility ' of >, profitable, employment being fqund'v for, partially.- dibbled solcliers in the of pptash.froni seaweed has been brpught under^thie'ribtic© 'of. the 5 Gwerameht' E. Hunt". (En a letter .receatly tl?a . Horn A.' !J/. Hterdman, Minister of (the (Discharged' Soldiers I ';' Emplpy?nenfi Department,: Ma' Hunt pointed' otitjtJiati; seaweed- abcVnds ;in large on, ecrtaiii portions: of'• <the -Newcoast, particuliariy *at Aikaroa -Harbour, v. BitewaTit Islaridi, • the Bluff, and::; curtail* pa-rte of-the west coast- of Province. It is pointed out that before the Stassfurth potasQi deposits in 'Germahy were developed a/great deal ;of . potash was produ<red from seaweed ,• oast' mp i on: the -coast of Scpttandi.' A teimilar .industry is now providing work -'■ for ''a large ; number of people' oa .the .coasitclof' California. A sample of dried weed from "the Hon. E. Mitdhelson's property bri'theWest Coast has 'been forwarded the Minister. ft Herdsman "has . replied" stating that the matter will have *his careful consideration. V- : \';■. ?■ ■"■:.•',•'£ ■■;'■