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NZ Truth, Issue 138, 8 February 1908, Page 6

According to the "Otaki Mail" the local council "were obliged to cat the leek and the ratepayers paid the piper," and the "Mail," anyhow, is mixed m its metaphor. The "Waimate Times" tells of an incident m a gale of wind. Someone left a perambulator with .a baby m it standing on tbe footpath. The wind set the perambulator perambulating, and it capsized into a water I channel ; having got rid of its occuIpant, the four wheeler careered a- ' long the road, startled an express horse, caused a bolt, and considerably upset the traffic m the street. The perambulator was rescued by a .pedestrian, pnd the baby was found I making mud pies m the gutter. I