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Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9420, 16 April 1909, Page 3

The soldier’s return is not, says the Dominion, always as romantic as the song makes out. A volunteer who arrived in town by the 11.50 train on Monday evening, made his way to the boardinghouse where ho was stopping, but on knocking at the door, the porter, who did not seem to recognise him, would not admit him, and said that if he did not go away he would inform the police. In reply the soldier poked the porter heavily with the butt of his rifle, and bumped him on the floor. At this the porter sot off down the street for a policeman, and the soldier, not waiting for the enemy to return in force, vanished, to look for bed and board elsewhere.