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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 118, 19 May 1916, Page 2

Says the Weekly Despatch: "When, ">n September 25th, a ward in the Cambridge Hospital at Aldershot was cleared in r("de i to receive wounded New ZeaJanders fresh from that lu'J] whifh Taography calls GaMipoli, a small crowd -f curious people who had heard that

New Zealanders were coming stood outside in order to cheer twenty-eight black men wearing feathers and blankMs. Much to tb?Vt* surprise, twentyught of the whitest and cleanest men •■hey had ever seen hobbled along on their crutches., and for the first time the people who were waiting realised that "11 New Zealanders aren't Mack. These men even talked English."

The Supreme Court heard an action by Airthur Sehaeff againt Tingey and Co. for the recovery of £5(55 damages for injuries suffered by an accident in | Willis Street. Defendants'siad a contract to paint a building. Two employees left step-ladders on a bai'-onv during the lunch hoi.fr. Plaintiff was riding past on a motor cycle, and a gust of wind blew one ladder ovejr the balcony railing. It fell on Sehaeff, injuring his head and shoulder, and. smashing the cycle. Defendants eontended that all reasonable precautions •.vere taken and counsel asked for n non-suit on the ground that the wind was an act of God. The Chief Justice reserved the point. The jury returned ' a vdrdict for plaintiff for £225. The State has granted rent exemptions totalling £3OOO to Crown feasants gone to the front. It is simplv wonderful what a large proportion of these men have enitisted, declared Mr Massey, replying to Mr Okey's plea for special consideration for these men. The Premier added that Parliament gave him power to deal with the position last session. The policy • was that wliene Crown tenants wont to the front leaving a section unproductive no rental was expected, but there were numbers of case s where sections continue profitable. In such case s partial exemptions would be f : arranged for. He had dealt with scores of t-hesc- cases during the past month, and no case had been turned down.

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