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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8517, 23 August 1907, Page 5

The Minister for Defence, in reply to Mr Field, stated in the House of Re;resentatives that, having regard to the fact that there is no violunteer corps between Wellington and Palmerston North, he did not co :sider that the heavy expense of purchasing land for the purpose of a rifle range in that district would be justified. As all New Zealanders. know, the hands of the human figures in Maori carvings have only three fingers, with something like a claw'to represent the thumb. The reason why there should be only three fingers, instead of four, was discussed by Professor Macmillan Brown, in a lecture in Sydney. He has formed the theory that the hand is really intended to imitate a bird's claw, and to indicate that the image represents not a living thing, but 1 a spirit. "We put angels' wings on the figures on our tombstones to express the same thing," said the professor. "This explanation of mine is pure theory, but there is none other; and it will have to hold the ground, therefore/till it is replaced by some better one." If yon are an importer, send vour document'-: to J. J. CUBTIS & CO., LTD., Customhouse, Shipping, and Forwarding Agents, Wellington. They will quickly pass the goods through the Customs and Sel : ver th-jm to you. No matter from what form of rheumatism you suffer—chronic, muscular inflammatory—or gout, sciatica, luaibago* Rheumo will surely cure you. All storesat 2s 0:1 and 4s Gd. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure won't cure Yo ;r broken legs or hrarfs, Nov will i!i neb, as a mittor of fact, As a receipt for tarts : It won't euro neuralgia, temper, squinis, For working men or tolls : But Woods' Great Peppermint Cure will cure Ycur colls and cure your coughs.