LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2781, 27 May 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tho Telegraph Office advise that caT>To messages of inquiry ro casualties in the New Zealand Expeditionary, Force may now bo addressed to "Zeangar," London. Tho postal authorities advise that the s.s. Manuka, which sailed from Sydney at 3 p.m. on May' 25, for.■' Wellington, i a carrying Australian mails only, and i* duo here on Monday. Tho.Postmaster-General announces that following tlie practjce obtaining in tho United Kingdom, newspapers dispatched by publishers or their agents to neutral countries aro forwarded without censorship.'. Those dispatched b.v private individuals are riot forwarded. ' In view of tho increased cost of livin" owing to tho war, the directors'of tho Union' Bank of Australia, Limited, have authorised'a special allowanco to the staff of 10 per cent, on salaries, as from January 1 last. ■■; ' The aeroplane in which Lieut. A. de B. .Brandon; of ■Wellington, niado his now historic attack on a Gorman; Zeppeiin, in Essex, on March 31, was oiio of tho machines presented to the War Office by the Gaekwar of Baroda. '

No case of infantile' paralysis lias been reported from - [anywhere in the Canterbury Health District i'or a vecfi, and it is concluded that now the cold weather has set iiftho trouble is practically ended, fainco the beginning of tho year there have Ijcgjl 52 cases, 'with four deaths, in the Canterbury district.—Press Association.

• At the Farmers' Union Conference yesterday .(says a Press Association telegram from Christchurch), tho opinion was emphatically expressed that tha farming community should have representation on the Appeal .Boards which nre to bo set up to consider should or should not so to the war under the Military Service Act.

On the last day. tho Temukn, District High School was open before tho winter vacation 20Q pupils were absent on account of measles vstatci thu correspondent of a southern paper). Wlieu tho school reopened on Monday only eighty were, absent from ■ tliis cause, and it is expected that tho attendance will improve daily.;; A licensed grocer, prosecuted at Aberdeen, admitted 3)4 offences against tho Liquor Control Regulations. Ho was liable to fines totalling ,£12!),000 and 117 years' imprisonment. Ho was fined .£4O, the .Sheriff remarking that the facts 6hould be reported to the Central Control Board.

Inspector Hugo, speaking at the opening of the St. Albans fire station on Wednesday, stated that in many districts the need-of suitable labour in connection with fire prevention was most serious, and he strongly urged on young married men who had not gone to the front to assist ill every possible way to'make the want of labour in this respect less marked. It was their duty to do so, and thus allow other men to go to the front. In-Eng-land it had been held that firemen were necessary 'for the protection of life and property, and their services were as essential as those of men who had enlisted.

Guide "Molly," of Rotorua, died suddenly at Raglan last week. She-find been ordered to the seaside for her health, and while at Raglan she burst a blood vessel. It was decided to remove her to Hamil-. ton Hospital by motor-.car, but slid died on the way. Her son, Lance-Corporal Morton, is' a member of one of t'he recent Reinforcement drafts.

In Dunedin and some of tho smaller centres, Empire Day was celebrated on Wednesday (May 24). That date vros origmally Empire Day, in New Zealand, and is- still retained in England and Australia, but tho. date of Empire Day was changed in New Zealand by notice in tho Gazette in 1312, when it was made to synchronise with the King's Birthday (June 3), so that Saturday nest is the official Empire Day, as far as the Dominion of New Zealand is' concerned. As an Empire Day gift to the Empire a fund has been started in Dunedin to purchase a biplane. It is proposed to purchase a 100-horsc-power Gnome-Yickcrs' gun-mounted biplane, which costs about ■£2250. Up till Wednesday night the sum of JEIO2O had been subscribed. . The Government has decided to offer a reward of for information leading to the conviction of the person or persons who committed tho Kaiapei murder. The New Zealand Natives' Association' has received a communication from the VVellington branch of the Medical Association, agreeing to a conference with tho representatives of tho former body op the jiroposal' to establish a. 6che'me of medfcal benefits. Tho Natives' Association has a membership of 700, and it is. understood that'they are prepared .to deal with the doctors on tho basis of tho offer recently made to the local Friendly Societies. An alarmist'article 'was published in' Wellington yesterday upon the possibility of a German rising occurring in South' Australia, whore there is a large' German district.. On the question being Taised in the House' in the afternoon, tho Prime Minister said that he was unable to state publicly what the Government was doing, but he could give an assuranoe that nothing of, the. sort. could- occur, in Zealand such as might occur in Australia. When Mr. Payne asked the Minister of Defence if Lieut. Kreuz were going away >vith the Reinforcements, in. spits of tho representations of .the Hawkels Bay AntiGerman League, of the executive of which Dr. M'Nab was a member, Mr. Allenasked Dr. .M'Nab to rep'ly. Dr.. M'Nab replied that' the Mayor of . Hastings had • told him that he, had general, objection .to, men of .'„G.erm<in. : parentage ..joining, the .Expeditionary Forc'e, but if. imeh." a,.policy, were' decided : ori;.'he. knewof noperson, .tetter qualified than'Lieut.; Kreuz to go. Ho knew him personally,! and knew that he had always'' given expression to . most loyal utterances. In reply to Mr. Ell, who suggested that 10s. banknotes should, be issued in; view, of. the shortage,- of : half-sovereigns, the Prime Minister yesterday stated that the point was under consideration. He hoped to be - able to make a statement on tho subject in a few days'-time. In replying to a question by Mr. W. H. Field yesterday, tho Prime Minister stated that it probably would' be possible, to find sufficient shipping: space in June to lift 22,000 bales of flax, in addition to 7000 bales • going to America nest month. This would go a long way towards removing the .present congestion. If, • later on, it .was found to get the.flax awayi. he would be willing to recommend to Cabinet that it should adopt the samo course in regard to flax as had been followed iu regard to kauri gum sineo the beginning of tho-war, that is to say, that trie Government, should take over the flax nnd give to tho owners an advance against it until it could bo sold and shipped.

A sum of ■■"money lias been- collected by the Technical College Cadet Corps for the purpose of erecting a'memorial tablet to officers and students of the Wellington Technical College Ca'det Corps, ivho have fallen in. the . present war. Permission was granted at last evening's meeting of tho board to erect the tablet in the college. • .

A paragraph in Featherston. camp routine orders states that in view of the sliortago of supplies in Stationery and envelopes the greatest economy must henceforth be exercised in their . use. Envelopes shooud only be used where absolutely necessary. ....

Stout eoles iii Box Calf' Boots. Ideal for winter wear. 225. to 355. Geo. Fowlds, Ltd.,- Manners Street.—Advt.

We give JCIO guarantee' with every Is packago, "No Eubting Laundry Help" that it will wash all clothes perfectly clean, without rubbing or injury. Wardell Bros, arid Co.—Advt.