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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 261, 31 December 1914, Page 3 (Supplement)

YOUR KINO AND COUNTRY NEED YOU.

You who are Britons proud and free. Active and sturdy, young and strong, Duty calls in a vibrant key: -hurry up there and come along. From town and village, from tor and glen ••Your King and your Country nc'-d you,'' men!

Kiss your lassie and .yiy "Good-bye,-She''ll be true, put your doubts away; Read her tears and her woman « sigh As needle.-* fears that her boy would stay, Get on vour khaki and grip your gun. There's work you can do, and -\U M. old son.

Talk is good when the ta.-k U through. Ale's all right- alien you've earned your drouth: mop thorn both till thoy both ado duo. " Give your mu*le and MAire your mouth. This Britain's weal and its pride arc not Preserved by the pewter patriot.

Tin re's a row lo hot- and the ground is roujjh, Grit your teeth, lad, and do your share; Prove you are made of proper stuff. Make your people glad to know voii're there. T\s Honour calling, so take you re kit And see the Old homeland through with it.

You who are Britons, mind and thew, Active and sturdy, young and strong. Dutv beckons and calls to yon: "Hurry up there and come along! From desk and workshop, from field and fen, "Your King ami your Country need you." men!

GUIDES FOR TRAVELLERS. On the bank of a small river in Ireland is a stone bearing the following inscription: ... "When this .stone is out of sight it is not safe to ford the river." Rut this is surpassed by the famous post em ted some years ago by the surveyors of an Ensl-sh road. It reads: "This is the bridle'path to Faversham. Tf you can't r?ad this you had better keep to the !»"'" road."