"WE GIVE OUR SONS."

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 195, 28 July 1916, Page 4 (Supplement)

"WE GIVE OUR SONS."

Such our proud cry a. vain and empty boast; Love did not ask so great a sacrincu, The first ravc'dle iound you at your post; You knew the cost; dear-eyed vo'i paid the price: Some tar clear call we were too dull o hear Had caught your ear. Not ours to urge you, or to know th>. voice; No stern decree you followed or obeyed; Nothing compelled your swift unerring choice, Except the stuff of which your dreams w,cre made; To that high instinct passionately true, Your way you knew. We did not g've you— ali unasked you went, Sons of a greater motherhood then ours: To our proud hearts your young brief lives wer.e lent. Then swept beyond us by resistless powers. Only we hear whci we have lost oiw all. That far clear ( all. —London • Punch."

KKAI. DEEP SEA FISHING STORY.

Since M. Pain love was appointed Minister of inventions, French inventors have swamped tlie Ministry with all sorts of weird and wonderful ideas, many of them of the most astonishing kind. On.' discover,'!' seriously suggests that dogs and cormorants, acting together, can overcome submarines. I''ir-t of all a dog is to he trained to hark whenever lie hears the noise made by a suhmarine propeller who'.i the v'.'s s el is about to dive. Then the eormo!nt'.s attention i- to he directed to a p ece of meat iixed to a periscope, and as the cormorant tries to .snatch tlif food the vessel dives. This manoeuvre is repeated several times until the bird associates the ide.< of e. pii iscop,.. uiili meat, and then the lerd ami dog work together. Every tint." tlie dog harks the the cormorant looks for a i).'i'i»e;ii)o. The inventor of this scheme adds.... "it without saving that, as soon as the cormorant oerclies on the peri-m-o" ;■ the gr..is fire on the submarine."