NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1364, 20 February 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“One of my witnesses is a gentleman and he is entitled to a guinea expenses,” remarked a solicitor at the Auckland Magistrate’s Court at the conclusion of a civil action. “He is a retired gentleman and has independent means ?” asked Mr C. C. Kettle, S.M. The solicitor remarked that that was so. The magistrate said he would allow him 2s 6d —his boat la re from Devonport and cost ot lunch. The solicitor explained that the witness might expect the full fee from him. “He might expect anything, but he will not get it,” added the magistrate.

Old Age Pensions have become popular, but where are the countervailing taxes on bachelors, whose old age other mens children must work for ? ‘■Women's rights” are in the air, - i-at -t the right of a motnc

.?t a '-Du. io. :..tch t t. • .chtldr.n vri'om she nurses and r v..= i r>i with much sacrifice f cr the rood of the State. Even Mr Alien, ood man, can only allow exemption on Income up to fo i' young children ; the man who has ein.ht gains exetapric-u on four of them only, as though the normal family were a crime and the small family pre-eminently de sirable. And against inis no protest went up, no “reformers” complained, no “liberals” became indignant, no leagues or councils uttered a word. They cheer the men who march to war when the Gcrnf.n hammers at the sea door, and when Be’gium flames to heaven as a sign of our own doom if the Kroner conquers, but who -'beers the home that burns with os Lies, and in fifteen or twenty years; will I"-’ its grown men to work ior us In ceo c to fight for us in war ? —Touunga

the Pop- Our Empire calls you, and —England Expects !” Such is the substance of a poster being issued by the Defence authorities throughout the length and bread id 0? New Zealand to day. It represents the inauguration of the new recruiting system to secure a regular supply of reinforcements tor the Naw Zealand Expeditionary Force, and, specially directed at the manhood of New Zealand between the ages of 20 and 4o years, Is being put up in all drill halls, post offices, railway stations and other public places. With this end in view the various Territorial officers have been flooded with these posters during the past fortnight, and from to-day onwards, therefore, the public should have them confronting their gaze in all directions. The proprietors of the Post, in order to assist the authorities by giving the utmost publicity possible, devoted a whole page to an exact reproduction and display of the document, which it is hoped will quicken the pulses of New Zealand's manhood and result in a regular supply of recruits ot the best stamp.