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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2964, 30 December 1916, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL . . - ■ v~ . The Minister of Defence • (the Hon. J.. Allen) received advice vesterdav morning that the Eighteenth Reinforcements have .arrived at their destination, "All well." His Excellency has received from the General - Officer Commanding tho Mesopotamian Forces tho following telegram, dated Basra, December 23: "The New Zealand Forces in Mesopotamia deeply appreciate the kind message fjom New Zealand convoying Christmas greetings, and heartily reciprocate." "Have you never gone into . ■ tho street and' seen, children who show signs of want of education in the mother " said Miss Chaplin,- 8.A., at the Women Teachers' Conference yesterday, when urging the importance of educating well to-day the girls who were to be the mothers of the future. "What," she asked, "is tlia c'atfse of the trouble - when our boys and girls fall to temptation? We know it is largely owing to tho lack of education of the mother." • The out-patients' department of tho Hospital will bo closed on Monday and Tuesday next. Urgent cases, however, will be treated at the Main Hospital. At .about one o'clock yesterday afternoon tho Central Fire Brigade received a call to Abbott, Oram's warehouse, in Victoria Street. Slight damage was done to on the second floor. The mobilisation of the Twentyfourth Reinforcements will take place noxt week. The quota for the draft includes the men required to cover the shortage in the Twentj'-third Reinforcements, mobilised in November, but it is unlikely that a full' quota will be secured. A few recruits of the Twentyfourth Reinforcements are already in camp. They wore men who were inconvenienced by tho postponement of the mobilisation of the draft, and who preferred to got into camp at the original date, before tho holidays. "No Rubbing Laundry Help" has been the means of making many a happy homo and smiling wife, because it washes clothes clean without the drudgery of the old-timo method of washboard rubbing, i AU grocers.—Advt.