LOCAL AND GENERAL
A Press Association message from Auckland states that tho Rivcrina arrived from Sydney at 6.30 p.m. yesterday, and her southern mails caught the Main Trunk express. Tho War Regulation providing for the issue of badges to officers and crews, of transports is revoked by Order-in-Coiuicil gazetted yesterday. A gorse firo caused a little excitement at Taitville yesterday. Some of tho houses became endangered and the brigado was sent for. Tho firemen put the blaze oiit with beaters. A remarkable escape from death was witnessed in Willie Street last ovening. A man attempted to cross the thoroughfare in front of two tramcars, which were travelling in opposite directions. There was a suspicious bumping as of someone, getting buffeted from one car to the other, a ringing of emergency bells, a quick stopping of the car and everyono looked toward the so" of tho trouble only to see tho nuin pick himself un, adjust his cigarette (-.vliic-h ho had kept in hi 3 mouth), and walk away unhurt. The gas emitted from an oil bore on the estate of a Gisbornc resident is to ho put to a new use. The owner is having balloons made to act as holders for the gas, which he intends to vse for the driving power of a motor-lorry in tiie Poverty Bay district. The 1 names of prominent Labour loaders in other parts of the world who are in favour of winning the war were mentioned by Mr. Mack at bis mooting last night. He named Samuel Gonipors, president of tho American Federation of Labour, an organisation numbering millions of workers; Hayolock Wilson, president of the British Seamen's Union; and Robert Blatchford. All the timo that bo was on tho topic there were interruptions from tho supporters of Mr. Fraser m tho meeting. "And," Mr. Mack went on, "I venture the opinion that the great majority of tho workers of this country stand for winning the war. I want to ask any sane man what would have happened if. we had done, and other countries had done, what these men (indicating his opponents) would have us do?" A voice: "there would have been no war." Mr. Mack: }\e would'havo been under the heel or the. Kaiser. That is what would have happened." Mr. Mack spoke a little later of the atrocities committed by the Germans in Belgium and other conquered territories, and while some iho'ited. "Give us politics," another jibed, And yet you stayed out of it!" Mr. Mack replied: "You want to get me out ot this contest? Very well, I will make this offer to you: I am prepared to present myself to any ot the Government medical officers along with Mr. Fraser. and if Mr. Fraser agrees to come I will pull out of this contest. And I am a lot older man than Mr 'Fraser, and I have a lot more restwnsibiliticK in this, country than JUr. Fraser, because I have reared a kamiiy of nine children in this country. Apropos of banned literature, the Dunedin Presbytery yesterday, resolved to appoint a deputation to wait on the Actiiic-Prime Minister and lay before him cVtiet, from "The Tablet > and ask whether the Government thmks it necessary to suppress publication of "Tho Tablet," which bad made grave charges against the morality of John Kilos.—Press Assu.
The Passmoro Challenge Shield, resented for the best secondary school c"orps in (1) drill, and 2) for'the smartest turned-out unit, has been awarded by the Director of Md.toy Training to Christ's College Scmoi Cadets lor the year 1917-18. In future Sisketry will be added to the above subiecto, and the selection of the noUerVwlll be left.to the Director of Military Training and tho General Staff officers in districts.
A Press Association telegram ifrom Gisborne states that with reference to the suggested sale of the Harbour Hoard's dredge Maui, there is a report that the vessel is under offer to tho Chinese Government, hut the Chinese Consul in Wellington has notified the board that he has received no information from his Government as to any such intention, and tho Minister ot Marine has notified the board that m view of the present war conditions permission to make a sale outsido the Dominion will not bo granted. The New Zealand Post and Telegraph Officers' Association will hold their annual conference at Wellington on October 20. The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) acknowledges the receipt of £150 from the Mayor of Dunecbn as a contribution to "New Zealand's Tribute to France.
A notice in General Orders states that returned soldiers who have ieceived tho silver war badge and who havo subsequently re-enlisted must Lot wear tho badge with their uniforms. The silver badge is intended to indicate that the wearer has been discharged as r,o longer fit for further- service on account of age, wcuuds, or illness rot the result of misconduct, lle-enlisred men may wear the badge of' the Beturned- Soldiers' Association witn uniform whilo they are in New Zealand. The rides governing the wearing oF service chevrons are laid down in General Orders. The red chevron denotes service abroad on or betore December 31, 1914. A man who left New Zealand before that date or joined a unit overseas before that date is eligible. An additional blue chevron will be awarded for each successive aggregate period of twelve months served overseas. The service need net ho continuous. Periods of absence without leave/imprisonment, detention, hospital treatment or sick leave duo to avoidable causes or periods of captivity as a prisoner of war will bo excluded when calculating the twelve months required to qualify for an additional chevron. A first chevron earned on or after January 1, will, bo blue. The members of the Jorees oli'dblo to qualify for chevrons aro as f„lTow:-AU ranks of tile N.Z. Expeditionary Force, members of the N.A. Army' Nursing Service, members ot tlic N '// -lection of tho 'Women's Army Auviliarv Corps, and members ol \ho N.Z. Voluntary Aid Detachment (including nurses, General Service and Motor" V.A.D.'s). The chevrons may he worn with civilian clothing.
Mr. '• W. Raymond, who over a .year ant initiated the system of cheap code cabUwrains between the Dominion r.nd the Old Country so as to enable parents unci others to obtain information about their sick and wounded at a very small outlay, informs us that the system has been very much availed of. Ho las 1-ati many letters from the Dominion expressing warm appreciation_ of tho care taken in supplying the information and in tho promptness of the acknowledgments.
' "I hope that my candidature in this contest may lmvo at- least one good result," said Mr. M. J. Mack at lm meeting last night. "If it makes the workers conic together and keep close united oil those points about which they can all agree, I shall ho satisfied. Then I shall know that I have done something for the good of the workers of Now Zealand." Mr. Mack said that lie referred especially to the intrigues at presont making for disunion and disruption in the Labour movement. No sooner was a body of workers organised than one .section of it would bo trying to get into tho constitution something that was not pleasing to the other section. There wore so many things about which tho workers were all agreed, and for which they could all fight, that these intrigues could do nothing but harm to tho workers. The Wellington Harbour Board las a vacant section at the corner of the Parade and Awn Road (at the foot of the old Worser Bay Road) that it desires to lease. A» the road is only li it. wide the Government has called upon tho board to widen Awa Road to sl)ft. before it leases tho land. At the last meeting of tho board it was decided to dedicate a strip of the Harbour Board's reserve (on the .northern, side) for the widening of the road. This has been submitted to the Miramar Borough Council, and will later on go before tho Lands and Survey Department for approval. The following additional subscriptions towardj the purchase for _thc piililrtj <M)lery of works of art at tho oxlubi,tion recently held in aid of the blinded soldiers of Franco are acknowledged bv the council of the Academy of Fine Arts :-Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Pearce, £5 55.; Jliss Bwiucoat.. £2: Mr. L. Tripp, £1 Is. (additional), and Mr. B. Hunt, £1 Bs. The further inquiry which the Wellington Rugby Union proposes to no-ru-in to the matter of the rules under which the Auckland-Wellington match was played did not eventuate last evening, as none of tho players who were summoned attended. It was decided to postpone the inquiry, and to nolity the players to attend next Tuesday evening. The attitude of farmers towards returned soldiers wao criticised at the sitting of tho Second Auckland Military Service Board at Te Aivamutu on Friday, bv Mr. J. Budge, a member of the King Countrv Trustees' Board. .Ho said his board considered tho farmers were not giving returned soldiers ,' a fair deal." Many discharged soldiers desired work on farms, but farmers did not seem anxious to have them because they were usually not sufficiently recovered in health to do fourteen hours' work daily, expected of them. As a matter of fact the trustees' board had striven to obtain positions for •eturned men, but farmers expressed a preference for the thoroughly robust Hindus. The community owed it as a duty to the returned men to help them, but the average farmer ignored that duty, refusing to give a wage for such labour as the returned soldiers'could offer. Instead of appealing and saying that they could not be relieved, farmeis would find plenty of applicants to carry on their work if they would only properly advertise their vacancies and offer a fair wage and reasonable surroundings for the men to live in. Farmers as' a class were not "playing the game" either- in their response to the call te military service or by giving tho returned soldiers a chance to find work on the farms. The result of the art union for "Kew'pie," tho Copper Trail pony ; appears in our advertising columns this morning. If the'pony remains unclaimed in fourteen days he will be sold by public auction for the fund.
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