LOCAL AND GENERAL
A : ; . According to a Press Association message from Sydney, instructions havebeen issued that youths under 18i years of a»o are not to be allowed .to embark lor service abroad, notwithstanding the consent to the parents. . Referring to the allowance to be made for depreciation of buildings in connection with the income tax, the Minister of Finance said yesterday that taxpayers need have no anxiety regarding the operation of the concession he had foreshadowed in the House. The allowance ■would be i per cent, on wooden buildincs and 2i per cent, on brick buildings. The Commissioner of Taxes had power under , the Act to make this allowance. The Minister of Defence (Sir iamta Allen) yesterday presented to Mrs. Alice B. Schoch the Military Medal won by her coil, Private J. B. Schoch (killed in action) for bravery on the field. The Minister of Defence has not yet submitted to Cabinet tho scheme for amendment of the pensions scale. He hopes to be able to do so during the comin" "week-end, and there is a possibility that the Bill will appear nest week. When pensions are being conit will be found convenient to discuss pay and allowances at tho same time but the House will not bo asked to deal with theso latter payments. They may be amended by alteration of the regulations without any amendment of' the law. ' _ ' The re-examination of the men previously rejected for aotivo Fervice as being fit for home service only is proceeding. At Auckland the board has done its work, with the result that 15 of the men ■were'classed A and 18 were classed CI. The A men will go into camp in the usual 'way, and the CI men /will go m for "a special course of physical training. Tho new camp headquarters at Trentham, which were completed recently, are now in occupation by the Commandant and camp staff. Tho buildings stand near the camp gates, and aia muoh nioro conveniently situated and arranged than tho old offices, which were originally extemporised nut of the building of the Dominion Riil© Association. The State schools of tho Wellington district which have been closed for the past weolc, will reopen this morning. Tho Minister of Public Works has (says our Masterton correspondent) promised a deputation to go the question of constructing a bridge at Kuiparoro. At tho meeting of the General Committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association on Saturday, it was reported that the proposal to provide an experimental farm in tho Wairarapa for shellshock soldiers was likely to assume a definite form. A report on the subject would probably bo available for next mooting. "No IWbbing" Laundry Help is what is recommended for washing clothes cloan without rubbing or injury to tho hands and fabrics.—Joseph Nathan and Co., Ltd.—Advt.
A private letter receivea' in Nelson related that ill the Battle of Messincs tho first wounded man to be brought in by the stretcher-bearers was Private Horace Bonar (son of tho late Hon. A. J. Bonar, M.L.C.), of Hokitika. Ho was reported to bo very badly wounded. Ono leg was badly shattered ana the other also injured. His case was considered very 6erioii3 at the time, but prompt attention and tho best of medical skill appears to. liavo pulled hl&i through the worst phases of the danger.
Th«!re are now three women gardeners constantly employed at the Chnstchurch Botanical Gardens.
An of whole-hearted patriotism was mentioned at a meeting of the Auckland Claims Board by Sir. V. J. Larnor, who stated that at tho small township of Moerewa, in tho north, tho Kauri Timber Company had at tho beginning of, the war a staff of 45 men employed at a sawmill. Of these 20 had gone on active service, and there was now not an eligible .white man left. Tho men had subscribed over £iW to various patriotic funds, and had invested through the Kauri Timber Company the sum of XSOO in tho 'War loan. Tho-wives and daughters of the men who had gone were busily engaged in knitting una othej work; for a '-recognised patriotic organisation. A Mrs. Dobson was yesterday knocked down by a motor-cycle in Adelaide Road. Her right leg was injured, and she had to •be removed to the Hospital, where sho was admitted at 5.20 p.m. .
The Hawke's Bay County Council a expenditure has greatly increased of late, and now borders on £6000 a month (telegraphs our special correspondent). Commenting on this yesterday, the county chairman, Mr. T. E. Crosse, attributed tho increase to the employment of casual labour, a large amount of which has had to bo employed during the past year. ' Probably because of the i success which has attended the flotation of the AVar Loan to date, a meeting convened last evening by tho Karori Borough Council to assist the loan was poorlj attended. Mr. B. Or. H. Burn presided over an audience of ten persons, whOm Mr. B. A. "Wright, M.P., addressed. At the conclusion of, the meeting Mr. Wright was thanked fori his address.
An English ladj, whose husband is still a private, went into her kitchen "to find her cook entertaining a soldier. He rose, displaying an officer's straps aim 6tars. "My nephew, Colonel ," murmured the cook, in mingled prido and confusion, mentioning the name of tho officer!
Tho Eangitikei County is now probably one of the richest counties in tho North Island, if not tho largest (says an-exchange). When the new adjustment of boundaries takes place between Wanganuii and Eangitikei Counties, tho value of tho latter county should bo approximately about -.£7,000,000. One feature of tho Eangitikei Council's operations is that of economy, the cost _cf roading being reduced considerably by the abundance of good metal and gravel in various parts of the county.
A. lad who was before tho Dunedin Magistrates tho other day, charged with deserting his ship, has already had an interesting career, though- only 17 years of ago (states an exchange). When 15 ho joined tho Third Queen's Regiment, and remained with them for three and a half months' before being /discharged (presumably on account of being under age). He subsequently re-enlisted in the Fifth Eoyal Fusiliers, saw six months active servico in Franco, and was discharged on October 12, 1910. He then got work as a steward on the Kotorua, and was aboard that steamer >vhen sbo was torpedoed in tho English Channel on March 23 of this year. The lads father has been at tho front with the Eoyal Engineers for the past two and a half years. At tho time of his desertion the iad was assistant .cook on his steamer, and he left hor at 7,yttelton. Tho enb-inspeotor asked and was granted leave to withdraw the charge, both lie and tho Magistrate commenting oil' tlio lad's fine record.
In his address to tho Grand Jury at tho Mnsterton Suprome Court yesterday/ (telegraphs our special correspondent), the Chief Justice, Sir Eobert Stout, congratulated tho district upon its immunity from crimo, and contrasted tne criminal statistics of tho district with those of districts in which licences exist. Some interesting figures in milk-pro-duction were given by tho chairman of the Mangatoki Dairy Company when touching on the inposition of tip butterfat levy. In all, ho said, over a million tons of milk wo produced annuallv in the Dominion, yielding 9d;000,0001b. of butter-fat. Of this. butter-fat 40,000,0001b. was converted into cheese, and 55,000,0001b. into butter. Practically the whole i of the cheese was exported, ■whilst one-third of tho butter was used in tho Dominion.
In the course of a business letter dated August 2 a manufacturing firm in Peorin, 111., U.S.A., writes to a Wellington man as under :-"Citizens of this country between the ages of 21 una 31 years who have been drawn for military service by the Conscription Act are rcport'ng for examination to-day. something like half a million men have now been called, -and notice has also been issued for the next half million to re port in August cr September." Last evening the Sports' Bodies* Committee, which is working hard for the Soldiers' Trench Comforts Fund, held a meeting at the Town Hall. Mr. A. Marryatt presided, and there was a-full attendance of members. The various subcommittees reported on their, activities, and the City was divided off into blocks in view of. a campaign that is to be conducted for funds for trench comforts for the boys who are going to face another winter in northern France. Twenty thousand gifts of an averago value of ss. were dispatched to the front at this time last year, and it is proposed to send as many this year.
"I saw it in print.the other day in the Auckland papers that Catholics are not to oe trusted in the Public Service,' said Mr. 15.I 5 . J. O'Kegan at,the Manst .celebrations last evening. "Whoever said that," added Mr. O'Regan, "did not apply his words to the battlefield. (Prolonged applause.) , It is very evident there is no fear of Catholics betraying the nation's interests in the trenches.'
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