Local and General

Horowhenua Chronicle, 17 February 1916, Page 2

Local and General

« —: The amount put through the totnlisator at the Woodiville meeting held yesterday was -tlii.o3l as ag.uitst £l"i - 770 on the first day of iaso year. Orleans was successlul in winn'-r-g the cup at the Woodville meeting y. terday, with Want ana faringa-uritu filling second and third places respectively. Hygiuas won the Telephone liand'cap, Interlude being second and: Lady Black third. The .Sydney court declared W. J. Chidley the notorious apostle of "the simple 'life," insane., and committed him to the hospital for the insane. The Werarou Anglican Ladies Guild desire to acknowledge with thanks a very -handsome donation from Mrs Guy Kingdon towards the bazaar funds for the removal of the debt on the churcli-

Levin sent three rinks of players to Otaki yesterday. Levin was defeated, in each instance, the challengers for the Kinniburg Feathers being beaten by 22 to 15. iThe visitors were most hospitably treated, and a very enjoyable afternoon was passed. Tlie Hon. John Scadidan, Premier of Western Australia, caused an. uproar at the Labour Federation meeting in replying to demands to dismiss all Government employees of German name. "Would they ask the Imperial Government" said 'Mr Scaddan "lo remove King George f" The totalisator investments at the Dunedin meeting yesterday amounted ! to £21,922 as against £23,601 10s last vcar. The war tax amounted to £493 7s 6d. The Cup was won by Rorke's Drift with Ardenvolir and; Pender in places. The Publican's Handicap was won by Panmure, Robert Bell being second and Reval tffh'd.

The lirst of two inter-club competitions for the Fresh Food and Ice (Company's silver cup will ibe fired by the rifle clubs of Tlovowlienua County (and Foxton) next Saturday. Levin Defence Rifle Club will participate. Each club fires on its own range. Tlie second competition takes place in March next.

In considering the pioneers of our profession, the bookkeepers of the old school, it is interesting to recall that. Charles Laiub held a clerical job for ■more than thirty yea re in tlhe old( East India. House in London, audi wrote the ''Essays of Elia" between times. e <ii i' told that Lamb lifted the work cordially. Like,every other 'bookkeeper in those days die ■wore away the years in uncongenial testes, udding endless columns of figures, and not infrequently delving far into the night ii; an endeavour to locate errors. The world has advanced since Lamb was a bookkeeper and perpetrated puns, yet wliiic most other departments of business have changed their methods bookkeeping in many cases is not far altered, from what it was in Lamp's day.' • m most business establishments more prejudice is exhibited against the introduction of up-to-date improvements in accountancy than in any other part of the concern. Xew machinery to help save labour or to render the work not so dangerous to -the •workers is adopt ed with little persuasion. * Better lighting facilities are introduced, and nice efficient distribution is brought about. All branches may he modernised but the suggestion of machinery in the accounting end is almost regarded as sacrilege. The chief reason is that probably the average accountant does not. sufficiently understand andi appreciate the oquipment that is available.

A Press Association message from On mam reports that, at a largely attended special meeting ot the Oama.ru members of the Amalgamated Society of .Railway Servants held last night the following resolution was unanimously carried: "That while in sympathy with the Palmerston .North resolution we consider that, owing to the abnormal increase in the cost of living, the Government should' be asked to taike immediate steps to cope with the same, failing this, nothing less that to increase Jjer day ibe demanded; otherwise the executive be ask oil to take immediate and drastic action." . A representative meeting of members of local bodies of the Wanganui district was held 1 at Wanganui last night to discuss the Recruiting Board's circular. On the motion of the Mayor it was unanimously resolved' I ''That this meeting is ot opinion that

the exigencies of the military situation demand greater efforts than can be obtained by voluntary service and that if satisfactory results be not achieved under the present scheme urges the Government to tfollow the leadi of Great

Britain and establish sumo form of compulsory servicc in the Dominion." A second .motion, moved by 'Mr W. A. Veitch. M.P., that wealth and war properties (should be taxed on a graduated scale to meet the cost of the war was also unanimously l carried. It was decided in the interim to use all efforts tc stimulate recruiting.

A children's operetta, ent'itVd 'The Dolls' Hospital," will 'be given in the Century Hall Levin, on Thursday, March •2nd. The children w ere trained by Mrs 'Matthews lor the Anglican bazaar which' was liekli last November. On that occasion Ft was only possible to g : ve ft very few selections as the time taken up interfered with the sale of go':(ls at the stalls. These selections were so thoroughly appreciated by tliobo present on that occasion, thai many expresesd their wish to see the whole performance at a subsequent date This was agreed to and the Century Hall was booked for March 2nd. The proceeds of the operetta will he given to the "Waifs' and Strays' Society," an organization in oonncction witß the Church of Englandi, supported toy Vol-, untarv contributions. This society iias no less than 115 homes in England and Wales for poor, destitute and crippled children. There are, in addition to the above, two homes in Canada, where those fit for immigration are sent. In these different homes there tare aibout .">OOO children, many of whom <at the present time are the children of sol diers Killed in the war v