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Hokitika Guardian, 31 August 1918, Page 2

The Ladies Literary Club are taking ihe Lady Liverpool Depot in Revell Street, for th four Saturdays in September. to raise funds in connection with the Copper Trail, when they hope to have the same hearty co-operation of all good wishes of the movement, such as they experienced in their similar effort last year.

It ia expected to be oeverai days before the Paeroa will get out- of Okarito. j Our readers will appreciate the contents of the weekly supplement supplied to-day. It is full of articles of general interest. The Military Medical Board are to arrive this evening and will be engaged on Monday making the usual examination of ballotted 'reservists. Greymouth will be visited on Tuesday. The annual meeting of No. 2 Westland Building Society takes place this evening at 7.30 o’clock, at the office of Messrs W. Jeffries and Co. An appropriation of £3OO will also be made bv ballot. Whitebait which commenced to come in fairly plentiful at the beginning of the week drqpped away as the days wore on and during the Inst few days they have been a very scarce commodity.

Flight-Lieutenant T. Dawson, son of Mr Robert Dawson, of Masterton, who recently descended in Denmark and was interned has cabled to his parents that he has effeetd his escape.' Regular practice will be tlie, order of the day in connection with the Paul Jones opera', from Monday evening, when nil chorus are requested to attend punctually at 7.30 o’clock at the Supreme Hall. The memorial to the late Guide Thomson which took the form of a Public Hail at Wniho was formally open ed last night. A number left from the north to take part in the opening ceremony including the Hon. J. Grimtnond.

The “Argus” learns that n horse belonging to Mr. John Stratford, who resides near Kaiata was found drowned with its front legs tied together with wire. The police have the matter in hand. Rv. Dr. Holloway who has been on a short holiday to the East Coast returned yesterday morning. Rev. A. Hore who had been relieving, and Mrs Hare, returned to Christchurch on Tuesday last.

Dragging operations were carried on at Greymouth all day yesterday for the body of the unfortunate fireman, Charles Smith, who fell into the river the previous night, but without result. He was a married man aged 29 years, and his home was in Wellington. There was the usual large attendance at McLean’s Pictures at the Opera' House last evening when a capital programme was given including the stirring drama “The Silent Lie,” and a screaming comic. The orchestra as usual was a' feature of the entertainment-. At an efficiency campaign meeting at Bluff, Mr.. J. S. Baxter mentioned that Mr. W. D. Hunt, of Invercargill, had given £IOOO towards the National Prohibiten compnign; his partner, Mr. J. Johnstone, of had given a similar amount; Mr Hunt’s firm (Wright Stephenson, and Co.) had given £2OOO, and two Auckland firms £SOOO each.

A man who claimed the right to being in D. class of the Second Division informed the Auckland Military Service Board on Friday week that his last child was born the morning of the gazetting of the ballot of C. clnss on June lOtli. Appellant said he did not receive official notification of his calling up until several hours after . his third child was horn. The point was a rather neat one for the board, which gave the reservist the benefit of the doubt, after lie had presented the necessary proof. Two ..Commissions in one is the result of a co-operative arrangement come to bv the Minister for Marine, (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) and the Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald (President of the Board of Trade), the latter of whom professed to have a Commission to inquire into the price of fish, while the former was setting up a Commission on the question of trawling limits in the Hnuraki Gulf. On the suggestion of Mr. MacDonald, Mr. Wilford has agreed to include the question of the price of fish in order of the reference to his Commission, which will thus servo tho double purpose. In a list of honours and awards recently published appear the names of thc following: —Royal Red Cross second class, Sister Matilda Fricker (Mrs Fricker, mother, Auckland, formerly of Greymouth). Meritorious Service Medal, Private Victor McNamara (Mrs V. I’. McNamara, mother, of Murchison); Corporal Thomas Muir (John Muir, father, Three Mile, Hokitika); Private John 11. Worgan (J. Worgan father; Granity).

“But if Prohibition is carried we won’t ho able to get liquor in eases of sickness.” That’s one argument, advanced by those opposing the petition for a-vote on the National Efficiency Board’s report in favour of immediate National Prohibition. Don’t believe it It’s only another of the Trade’s little dodges. The proposal clearly provides for the exemption of alcohol for medicinal, scientific and industrial use and for sacramental wines."

Referring to the war at the Orphan’s Club function, at Wellington on Saturday night, the Governor-General said; “Slowly but surely we are progressing towards the goal, which wo hope before long to reach. The path is very tortuous. . . but we are now very near the crest, if we have not already reached it.” Lord Liverpool added that the people should not be deceivd with tli idea that victory would see the end of our troubles. We had to face the work of reconstruction, and it would be many years before the nation could resume the even tenor of its way. Everything possible would have to be done to bring about a bettor understanding between capital and labour. The solution would nob bo found in any hard and fast regulations,_ but only by approaching the subject in a reasonable human manner.

In referring to the spirit of the men at the front, the Rev. W. Walker, Chaplain to the Forces, said, in the course of an address at Wellington, that there was-.the case of a British Tommy carrying a machine-gun tripod on his shoulder, struggling deeply in the mud. “He expressed himself pretty plainly about many things,” said the speaker. “His language would nob be .found in any standard dictionary. A friend came along, and, thinking to cheer him up, said, “Well, old chum, it’s pretty rotten, isn’t it?” Tommy replied, “My stars, it is! But never mind we’re winning!” And so he went. That British Tommy epitomises, I think, the spirit of the British forces. The spirit which animates men—the bulldog tenacity with which they hold on, to use the terms of Kipling, they have nothing in them except the will that says to them “hold on.” I say this spirit is nothing less than wonderful. The hardest conditions which a human being can be called upon to endure are faced with a tenacity and buoyancy which nothing could destroy—not even death itself.” Brisk demand for “NO RUBBING” Laundry Help. Remember “Clothes washed white and out by nine” when ‘NO RUBBING’ is used. Is 3d a packed - T obn Parkhill. j