The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, September 30, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1453, 30 September 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Thursday, September 30, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held on Monday, October nth. A number of local Masons were present at the annual installation ceremony at Levin last night. The Queen of the South and Awahou, both hemp laden, sailed at mid day to-day for Wellington. A card parly was held at the conclusion of the meeting of the Oddfellows’ Lodge on Tuesday night, when a very enjoyable time was spent. The lady’s prize was won by Mrs J. Newth, and the gent.’s by Mr Nelson. The secretary of the local Bowling Club has received an invitation for members to be present at the official opening of the Otaki green on Wednesday, October 6th. Another of the series of the benefit picture entertainmenls in aid of the funds of the Girls’ Guild, will take place in the Town Hall to-night. Judging by the sale of tickets a good house is assured. Apart from the excellent pictures to be screened, vocal items will be rendered by well-known local performers. A quiet wedding was celebrated at all Saints’ Church at 8 o’clock this morning by the Rev. W. Raiue, wheu Lieut. Powley, of the 2nd Battalion of the Karl of Liverpool's Own (Trentham Regiment) was united to Miss Jane Morgan, of Otahuhu (Auckland). The bridegroom was at tented by Mr Buchanan. Onlv the relatives and friends of the bride and bridegroom were present at the ceremony. At the recent meeting of the H.B. Education Board, Dr. Elizabeth Gunn forwarded a report on the children of the Napier schools. The portion referring to the Westshore School was as follows “ This is a very poor school. The children are poorly clad and not well cared for. Very few previously found defective had been attended to. Weslshore is almost totally a fishing village, and it was gathered from the teachers that very few of the parents are able to afford medical treatment.” The residents of Westshore took this as an aspersion and held a largely attended indignation meeting in the public hall. It was decided to send the following resolution to the Education Board, and to the member for Napier, Mr J. Vigor Brown: “ That this meeting of Westshore enters a strong protest against Dr. Elizabeth Gunn’s report regarding the Westshore school, and, further, that unless Dr. Gunn withdraws or modifies her report, the residents are determined not to allow their children to be examined by her again, as the terms of her report are absolutely contary to fact. ‘’Good health is the best friend you have in the world.” and by getting your Groceries and Provisions from Walker and Furrie’s you are assured of the purest and best.grade groceries, which is assuredly the. first step to good health. Bad colds and NAZOL cannot exist together. Test this commonsense and certain treatment. .Children like it. Sixty doses cost eighteenpence.

An old resident of the Wairarapa, Mrs William Benge, died at Greytovvn last week, at the advanced age of 96 years. The total liabilities of a Maori bankrupt in Waipukurau recently were £790 os 2d, while the only asset was a third interest in three horses and one dray valued at £5. The business people in those parts must be very easy-going. Would you never make enemies ? Then judge people by the good that is in them —be to their virtues ever kind and to their faults a little blind, and finally, don’t listen to or repeat gossip. The tongue of the gossip indicates a shallow mind. Relatives ol soldiers who haye fallen in action have been requested by the Minister for Defence not to observe mourning, it being considered an honour, not a bereavement, to lose a relative on the field of battle. For the same, reason a Hag is not flown at ball mast when a soldier is killed in action. Captain Wallingford, the famous rifle shot, is retiring from the New Zealand force with a strained heart. Writing to his parents, he says : "J tried to slick to it, but for fourteen days after we had beaten off the Turks I was crawling round my grins with a stick. 1 got home with the revolver, killing lour Turks, one at a foot, another at five feet, a third at ten feet, and the last at twenty yards. The poor devils were all youngsters. I got sick of killing with the rifle.” There is at the present moment in the Trentham camp, enlisted as a private soldier, a Taranaki man who has an income of ,£1,500 a year. He is as happy as a sand boy, and does his work cheer fully, the only “growl” that he indulges in being a complaint concerning the lack of bath accommodation. The gentleman we refer to is wellknown in Hawera, says the Argus, It is said that in one of the huts at Trentham there are six men who each have an income of £2,000 a year. There have been complaints of delays of parcels and letters sent to soldiers at the Dardanelles, but (says the Auckland Herald) when the conditions of the fighting are remembered it will be seen that the military are put to it to provide the men with necessaries. Indeed, the story is told of a staff officer who, landing on the sandy shores of the peninsula, looked round him with disfavour, and asked wearily, “Where is my office?” Someone who had had longer experience of Gallipoli and its hardships tossed him over a spade and said, “Here, dig your own office,” Dr. Elizabeth Gunn made a careful inspection of a number of children attending the local State school on Tuesday and Wednesday. This is the first medical visit paid to the local school under the provisions of the Act. We are not informed as to the result of the examination, but understand that the general health of the scholars is good. Some sound advice was given to the scholars, touching habits of cleanliness and the care of the teeth. We shall publish the report as soon as it is presented to the Board. A plucky action by Trooper J. Forbes, of the 12th Squadron of the Otago Mounted Rifles, is recorded in one of the orders issued by Eieut.-Col. Bauchop, C.M.G., commanding the Rifles, just before his death. In Orders, he specially commends Trooper Forbes for bis prompt help to a comrade on sth July. The facts were that -a trooper of the 7UI Squadron was wounded in the leg, and was crawling for shelter along the river-bed. Teaming of his predicament, Forbes immediately rushed out of shelter, and helped along the wounded man under fire. Before culling cover, unfortunately, another shot struck the man already wounded, aud killed him in Forbes’s arms when within two or three yards of safety. “f was wild with the Turks for firing on a wounded man,” says Trooper Forbes in a letter to his mother. Trooper Forbes has a brother residing in Wellington. It is with much regret that we report the death ol one of Foxton’s much respected residents, in the person of William Henry Selleck. Deceased had been ailing Inr some months, and passed peacefully away at bis residence, Whittaker Street, on Tuesday afternoon. The late Mr Selleck was a native of England, being born at Lee Moor, South Devon, and came to New Zealand in 1907, He resided in Wellington for a short time, and from there he removed to Otakl, subsequently taking up his residence in this town a little over three years ago. The late Mr Selleck was of a quiet, unassuming nature, very upright in character, and much respected by all who knew him. He leaves a wife and two young children to mourn his loss, for whom much sympathy is felt. The remains will be interred In the Foxton cemetery this afternoon, the officiating clergyman being the Rev Rowe. 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Dr Elizabeth Gunn completed a medical inspection of the scholars attending the local State school yesterday, Mr C. H. Podmore, has received a field service post card from Bombardier Arthur Hickson. It is dated August 3rd, and the writer was then quite well. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Foxton Young Men’s Club, to have been held to-night, is postponed until next Thursday night. . On Tuesday last a parcel of equipment was dropped from the carrier’s cart and returned to the Council Chambers. The Ladies' Guild desire to thank the finder for its recovery. The Ninth Reinforcements go into campon October 12th. Those culled up for this contingent include the following local men : Messrs T. Callaghan, S. G. Wellington, P. M. Clarke, T. G. O. White, and H. J. Prew. Mr P. M. Clarke, ledger keeper at the local branch of the Bank of New Zealand who goes into camp with the Ninth Reinforcements on October 12th, will leave Foxton on the 7th proximo. The vacancy thus caused will be filled by Mr C. E. Redgrave, of Nelson. There was another “bee” at work on the local bowling green and croquet, lawns yesterday afternoon. Members are evincing more than ordinary interest this year, and the season promises to be the most successful in the history of the Club. William Laurence Hooper, stamp dealer, was arrested at Dunedin on a charge of receiving £.\o worth of official stamps on or about t6th July, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. It is stated that the stamps were stolen from a Government Department in Wellington. All are not so fortunate as Runanga coalminers, who are supplied with two very needful of life's necessaries by a grandmotherly Government at a very cheap rate, that is, bouses and coal. If these pets of fortune (says a correspondent of the Grey River Argus) were to wake up some day and find they had to reside in Greymouth they would know that shelter and fire were as much necessaries of life as bread, butter and sugar. If they would use the little brains that God has given them they would find that the increased cost of these needful items was not brought about by conspiracy of the cruel capitalist class, but by the ignorance and interference of the very class which is now complaining. That the Maoris are by no means such bad business men as some people would like to make out is proved by an Incident which occurred in Gisborne, A prominent sheep farmer was negotiating with the head of a gang of Maori shearers to have his sheep shorn in the early spring. The pair strolled into the office of a licensed interpreter to complete the agreement. The sheep farmer was desirous that the Maoris should shear his sheep at the same rate as last year. “ No” said the Maori scornfully. “ Last year you get 6d for your wool, this year you get is 3d. Last year you get 12s 6d for your sheep, this year you get 253. We want £2 a hundred to shear your sheep this time.” All efforts at conciliation on the part of the interpreter were unavailing, and the conference broke up without either side budging an inch The cabled message from returned officers at Freemantle that the Maoris had been “cut up” was referred to the Minister of Defence. Mr Allen stated that it was certainly misleading. It would he wrong to let the impression get abroad that the Maoris had been badly cut up. They had suffered loss, but no more than anybody else, and the casualty lists had all been published. As to the point that they had been incorporated with other units, the fact was that they had been attached to the Infantry Brigade, but would still be kept together as a Maori force, II 'h i I received a cable from General Godley, which had already been published, in which he said that he had attached the Maoris to the Infantry Brigade. Reinforcements for the Maoris had been asked for, and were being sent, and the Maoris would be kept as two companies in the Infantry Brigade. Ladies! Our splendid stock of Aluminium Ware claims your attention. Until you have tested it you cannot appreciate the great advantages afforded by its use. It is reliable, cleanly, light and durable. See our Low Prices! Waiker and Furrie. SEE CHEAP RATES, FRONT PAGES LAID LAW LEEDS’ WHOLESALE CATOLOG.

Everything points to a record house at the Town Hall on Saturday. The feature of the evening’s entertainment will be the last appearance in N.Z. of the talented Scottish dancer and comedian, Bugler Bolton of the Earl of Liverpool’s Own (Trenthara Regiment), who created such a furore when he made his previous appearance before a Foxtou audience during the visit of the Regimental Band on Aug. nth. Another feature of Saturday’s programme will be the recititing of Hutchison’s famous poem “ The call from the Trenches” by Mr Hornblow. Nowadays the ruling fashion becomes the ruling passion, remarks the Dannevirke News. This is borne out by the latest ideas in christening infants with “ war ” names. The craze has reached an inland town not many miles from Woodville, and the conscientious registrar of births, deaths, and marriages there finds his record of births embellished with the following names: —Lorraine (5), Nancy (3), Dardan Ella (4), lan (6), Douglas (2), Roberts (t), • French (r), Hamilton (2), Juffre (r), Alexander Godley (2). The noteworthy feature of the selection is the conspicuous absence of Russian and Polish titles. Whether the omission is deliberate out of respect for Russian or Polish diction, or to avoid tongue acrobatics on the part of tond parents, seems difficult to know. Messrs Coliinson and Cunmnghamc, of Palmerston N., report a steady growth of mail order business. During September, orders were received from Fiji, Chatham Islands, JNorfclk Island, while all places in New Zealand, including Wellington City, sent their quota. A new advertisement appears on page 3.