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Levin Daily Chronicle, 1 June 1918, Page 1

A cable message says that Cecil Humphries. of the Cornwall Regiment (of Christchurch, New Zealand) has been awarded a bnr to the Military Cross, and has been promoted to be Lieuten ant-Colonel. He lias risen from the ranks' during the war. The 1 New Zealand Alliance for tii? Prohibition of the Liquor Tralliy are holding Provincial Congresses throughout the Doniinio'n and one lias been arranged for Tuesday, >lune .11th. Eae.h electora.-e in the \Villiagtou Province which u!e!udcs Ta ranaki. Hawkes Bay. and Cisborne will send two delegate? and the W.C.T.C. will scad one from each of their districts. An important meeting of the executive will be held to-night at (1.30 at the Congregational Church. It is expected that the conference will last for one day. A few interesting notes ou the food situation in S.-otland in February are continued in a letter, the writer of v.'iiih says: "I wonder if you have begun to be rationed as wo arc? "We .yet .1 V<dx ot' tea. Is 3d worth of meat. I.jlb of suga", and lib of margarine each a week; but wo get on all right, •uid none of us have begun to get thin vet. Potatoes are plentiful, and only I Id a stone, and bread is if/id the 41b loaf. It is quiet eatable, but very dark, like the brownest of brown bread. We - never see butter, bacon, or eggs, but: it is just wonderful how well we get ou without them. "We can get. herrings—fresh, salt, and kippers." The same writer said her "maid," a woman of -13 years, was getting £21 a year, "the highest wage X have ever paid a_ servant.'' Mr li. E. Holland, the newly-elected member for Ore}', was born near Canberra, New South Wales, in 18G8» Along with Mr \V. A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, he joined the Australian Socialist Lea"gue in the earliest days, of Labour agitation ill Australia, lie -was instrumental in the formation of several of the largest unions in that country, and was actively engaged in pioneering the Labour press of the Commonwealth. He was one of tho six straight-out Socialist, candidates who took part iu the first Senate election in Australia. Since 1913 he has been editor of the "Maoriland Worker," to which position he was unanimously elected, and since then lie has bren well known in connection witluthe Labour j movefnout. in New Zealand. j Sergt. Alf. Rudkin (M.M.). formerly on the Ot.nki school staff, is at present in No. 2 General Hospital, London, suffering from severe wounds in both arms, legs, and jaw—the result of a hand grenade while, in action in the Somme battle early in May. Sergt. Rudkin, however,-was making good progress. but it is very probable that he will bo invalided home. Pte. Len. Griffith, also of Otaki, is likely to bo invalided home also.