General News.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 7 March 1918, Page 4

General News.

A suddon jump in pearl barley which has just taken place, brings the prico in Duncdin up to £25 10s per ton —a rise of £4 in less than a week.

A Feilding trooper, writing from Palestine, says he has had a look round Jaffa, part of which is well laid out and reminded him of Palmerston.

In tho reccnt University medical examinations, at Dunedin (final professional), Dr. E. Burns Watson (Feeding) secured his M.B. Ch. B. with '' distinction. " ~ The Third Wellington Military Ser- j vice Board is to be suspended about I Easter time, from when the other two 1 boards will do the whole of the work in the districts. Arrangements will tlien be made for a magistrate to bo sent to Napier to relieve Mr Poynton, S.M., the chairman of tho Second Military Service Board. The Minister of Defence has been advised that the 33rd Beinforcements have arrived at their destination safely. The '' Daily Express'' learns from Washington a special resolution ask-ing-that a commission be given to Miss Kuth Law, the famous girl aviator, has been introduced into Congress. Miss Law has visited many French flying schools, and is ail experienced aviator. She will, it is declared,' have no difficulty in passing the aviation tests of the American Army, either in straight or trick flying. Miss Law is anxious to go to the front in France, and it is her ambition to be the first woman to drop bombs on Berlin.

Wages are said to have risen during the war, but from a paragraph in the "Hawke's Bay Tribune" this docs not seem to apply in the case of clerks. The 34 applicants for a clerical position in the Napier Harbour Board's office ranged in age from 21 to 48, and from the details they supplied it is evident that there is ample room for an improvement in the pay of clerks. The. wage offered was £4 a week, yet one applicanted wanted only 555. Many of the men are working for large firms, yet they were eager for the job. "Hay it be granted us at this hour to live this victory by anticipation in the communion of our hearts, as we more and more derive therefrom an inexhaustible unscllishness which is bound to end in a sublime flight of the French soul to ihe highest of its highest hopes. One day, from Paris to the most lowly village, storms of cheers will welcome our Victorious standards, wrung in blood and tears, torn with shell — splendid vision of our Great Dead! That "day, the most beautiful of our race after sj many other days of beauty, it is within our power to attain. To a determination with no turning back we ask you to sot the seal of your will." —H. Clemenceau.

Says the Napier "Herald": —It was stated in our issue of yesterday that Mr Wilford had signed the discharge of a certain alleged German, a sergeant, from camp. As a matter of fact Mr Wilford said ho had signed a document that would ultimately cause his discharge from camp, he not having the power to discharge men from camp. The sergeant, it is understood, though Mr Wilford did not say so, has returned to an important position in a Government Department in Wellington, and the secretary of the Beturned Soldiers' Association in Napier (Mr G. P. Aldridge) informed a "Herald" reporter officially yesterday that the Association had decided to take further steps and have the man removed from the position he now occupies. Being a German and not able to be in camp, ho is not in his right place in a public position. At a recent committee of the Ayrshire Breeders' Association, Hr A. Montgomei'ie referred to the conditions under which semi-ofliciiil tests are being

conducted. Ho was of opinion that an amendment was advisable so that a cow put under the test should calf within 12 mouths, instead of 15 months as now provided. The reason given was that 15 month:! did not appeal to the ordinary farmer, as it threw a cow out of her' dates, and also if a cow was placed under test for four conscculive vears under present conditions, one "would be, lo'.t to the owner during that period, rosult'ng 211 iir.ancial loss. The matter is to 1:0 brought before the next annual meeting of the Assu.-ialiun with a view to having a resolution passed asking the Government to amend its et:nditi'>:!3 in this respect''