MISCELLANEOUS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 31 May 1920, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The bank clerk? of Palmerstori North and surrounding districts, of whom there are about si.rty. have formed a. union tor mutual improvement under the guidance of men of discretion and experience.—'' Pfllmerßtou Times.''

Among the last of the returned soldiers to shake hand? with the Prinea of Wales at Duncdin tra? a mat! in e. well-known unifoim and civilian hat. from the Prince, who chatted to him for several minute*. It appears that the man vias an ex-member of the Grenadier Guards, the Prince's own regiment, and that he was one of the "Old Contemptible?. '■ A? the man" parsed some of the crowd someone said, "Where's your hat?" Quickly the soldier replied: "I lost it at Mono long before you knew there was a war on." One of the sights of Duncdin which the Prince and his suite voluntarily attendee] was the Otago Early Settler-' Museum* The Prince was particularly interested in a sewing machine that has a history. It was brought out by a lady who. when in London, sewed for Queen Alexandra when she is Princess of Wales. After the machine had been used by its owner for family work for years, she sold it. with other things, at auetioa, and lost trace of it. but on coming to Dunedin on a visit from Wellington, she found it in the Early Settlers" Museum, and recognised it. net only by its number, but al«o by its type, which she had made in London out of a box got from a grocer.