LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3010, 22 February 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Michael Hunt, farmer, Lawrenco, lias (says a Press Association telegram from Dunedin) been apprehended as a deserter uuder Section 12 of the Military Service Act. He was a Section 35 man, and -will be sent to Trentham Camp under military escort.

Bathers in tho open waters of the harbour had better bowaro of sharks. Yesterday morning Italian fishermen caught in a net a shark 12ft. 7in. long, with a girth of 7ft., in Shelly Bay, on the Miramar side of Evans J3ay. On Tuesday at the' same place " two other sharks about 7ft. long were caught.

Yesterday was the first day of Lent —Ash Wednesday.,

A proclamation in. the Gazette contains amending clauses in the provision for the requisitioning of New Zealand! wool. These clauses refer to wool rejected by valuers as unsuitable fer purchase, and they authorise the brokers •to make reasonable charges for services rendered to the owners in respect of such wool.

To-day's Gazette probably will contain the first list of Reservists published under Clause 13 of the Military Service Act. The men -whoso names appear in the list have been drawn in the first three ballots, but fifey have not yet presented themselves for medical examination, and they are now to bo formally notified' to do 60. It does not follow that every man in the liet is a deliberate defaulter. Some of tho Reservists, owing to changes of ad.dress, mistakes as to names, and so forth, have not received tho official notices soufc out after tho .Ballots. Others may prove to bo out of the country, enlisted, or oven dead. The Defence authorities have not accounted for the men, and the gazotting of the list is one of the steps provided: for ill the Military Service Act. Neglect to comply with this formal notice will render the men liable to punTsEmont as desortera under tho Army Act. Another improvement rtx> the architecture of Courtenay Place is at presont being made. In pttce of the old wooden difling-rooms, next the Terminus Hotel, is being built by Mr. Thomas Harrower a three-story reinforced: conorete private hotel, whioh wiE junction with a three-story brick building that fronts York Street. The new hotel will have a frontage of 30ft. and a depth of 50ft. Mace and Nicholson are the builders. It is not yet accountable how many names will be included in the burgesses' roll to be used in. iihe various oivio elections 'that are to take place on the momentous last Wednesday in April. In any ease the roll will not be a very accurate guide as to the actual number of voters, as all those who voted, at the election held nearly two years ago will be included, and , it is known that a good, round number of those a.t least are at present serving with His Majesty's IJojces overseas. Tho main roll closed on February 15, but a supplementary roll is at present being compiled, and any person who has neglected to register or see if they wore included should not miss this Jasfc opportunity of qualifying for a civil, duty none should neglect. A five-roomed house on the Carlton Gore Road, Auckland, was destroyed by fire early yesterday morning. Miss O'Connor, 82 years of age, was rescued by Constable Collins, who dashed through the burning building at. considerable risk. Mi& O'Connor is_in hospital, suffering from burns._ The lumso was owned and occupied"by Mrs. Lefance and her daughter, who escaped in thoir night attire.—-Press Assn.

Mr. Arthur Rosser, who is a member of the Military Sepice Appeal Board which is now sitting in Hamilton, has been repudiated by the Auckland Labour Representation Committco (states tho Waikato "Times'). In a letter Mr. Rosser -writes: "I have to acknowledge with thanks the. repudiation, of me as a representative of Labour on the Military Service Boaid by the Auckland Labour Eepresentation Committee, as published; it will save me needless repudiation or the L.R.O. to many British members of the community, and as to the antiBritisli section, no explanation is necessary. Knowing how the L.8..C. meetings are attended, I can only express my opinion that the resolution of repudiation savours somewhat of the famous document issued by the three tailors of Tooley Street's who started a remonstrance with, 'We, the people of England. 1 Onco more thanking 'the members of the Auckland 1 Labour Rβrsentation Committee for their timevindication of my character as a patriotic Britisher,"

The annual meetings of the various Press organisations will commence this week. Tho business wiE bo opened on Friday morning, at 9.30, when the Directors of the United /Press Association will meet. These meetings will be continued until Wednesday next, when the annual meeting of the association will ta-ke place. Meantime on Monday evening the annual meeting of _ the Newspaper Proprietors' Association will open, when His Worship the Mayor will oner a welcome to tho representatives of the newspapers of the Dominion. This meeting will be continued on Tuesday. Other meetings to be held , will be that of tho New Zealand branch of the Empire Press Union and the New Zealand! Federation of Master. Printers. Mr. P. Selig, general manager of the Christchurch Press Company and chairman of the Press Association and the Newspaper Proprietors' Association of New Zealand, arrived yesterday from Christchurch. A wharf labourer will appear in tHe Magistrate's Court this morning on a charge of theft of a lady's custume from a parcel included in a steamer's oargo. A story comes from Mount Peel district, in South Canterbury, which shows what a man who is anxious to make headway can do. It relates that the lessee of a small grazing run on Mount Peel, recently acquired, this year had 1800 sheep. He is a bachelor, and his own shepherd and housekeeper. He has this year shorn all his own sheep and haled the wool, besides cooking for himself. He fetched in a "cut" of sheep every fine' morning, and never shore less than 80 in a day. The man who gave this information, acquired from the energetic settler's neighbours, adds that this small sheep-owner last year gave all his war profit on wool to patriotic funds, and then enlisted. Should taxi-drivers without local knowledgo be given a license? One I gentleman at least has very strong i views upon the point. His experience, i as related to a Dominion reporter, was I that he asked a taxi-driver to, take (him to a very well-known, place m the ! city (a very' centrally-situated private ["hospital), and to his great amazemont I the taxi-driver had no idea of tho j place, or even tho direction of the i street it was situated . in. On _ being questioned, the man said ho did not know the town, as he had only arrived, from tho north tho previous day. All one requires to obtain a license is that ho shall be competent to drivo a car and shall boar n good character. Ihore is no test in locality knowledge.

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