Blacksmiths are having some difficulty in regard lo iron supplies. As a. result of war conditions the price of bar iron lias steadily advanced until it is 50 per. cent. ■ higher than at the outbreak of the war. and stocks in many sizes. particularly in shoeing iron, are almost depleted. Captain von \Veddrgen, who was acclaimed national hero for sinking the cruisers, Aboukir, drossy, and Hogue tin the North Sea, and was later lost with the l. T 2O, was for some time employed as correspondence clerk with .Taffy Bros., exporters, Dundee, and was a student at the Technical College there. These facts were ginned from tv follow clerk who sat beside Weddigen in the office, and who is a member of the Seventh 'Reinforcements. As Dundee, is a.h . important , submarine loft !.v cess of the Cennan oil city' uj-j'j' l>j tv liy oiiuej ■.<■•!.:. * . .. .-.SyJrA/ ■ ■ v.* -V-J-.rlrf'
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 5 August 1915, Page 2
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147Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 5 August 1915, Page 2
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