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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 248, 9 July 1915, Page 4

However patriotic *the**yoMg*MaorTß may be (says a Gisborne correspondent), it is not alwaj r s an eas} r matter for them to carryout their wishes, »• some parents have strong objections to their children going to the front. A» Nuhaka last week one parent spent over £1 in telegrams in trying to stoj» her son. Eventually she thought she had prevailed upon him to remain at homo, but to make doubly sure she clutched his coat-tails as he was assisting to launch a boat that was to ta’se the other roopers away. At the rlgTi? moment the young man slipped, out chis coat and left the old lady still clinging to it. Nothing daunted, she waded into the water right up to her neck, but the son was too quick, and was soon on hia way to Napier. Whether he will eventually get away with the contingent remains to be aeon.

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The abolition of several State offices and the creation of new offices in their stead are notified in last week’s Gazette. The office of “Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department ” is abolished and the office or “First Assistant Secretary, Post and Telegraph Department” has sprung up: “Inspector-General of Schools''’ has disappeared in favour of “Director of Education”; and “Comptroller of Customs” will be found where formerly sat the “Secretary of Customs.”

Mr Henry H. Hall, American journalist, gives th e following pen-picture of the King of the Belgians; As a man, King Albert is magnificent. There is no other word. He is head and shoulders taller than t»0 per cent, of his soldiers. He stands fully three inches over six feet, and his closelyblack tiufl-j, |ith*ou« Jmsfgnla of rank of any gird, gives him an air of rank of any kind, gives him an air of slimness despite the immense breadth of his shoulders. This is accentuated by a pair of the longest and most serviceable legs I hav e ever seen. At first one does not realise that ho has a giant’s strength, even mor e than a giant’s stature. Few men, however, are as powerful physically. The brake levers of all his cars hav e to be specially reinforced. He can bend an i»ch bar of iron and can lift his two eldest children off the ground, on e in each hand, and held them at arm’s length. One is a lusty boy of fourteen, the other a beautiful girl of ten. And this splendid physique is kept in perfect form by his almost ascetic method of life. He drinks nothing but water, and eats meat only once a day.