LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1542, 25 April 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A large number of local sports attended the jFeilding races yester* day. The local business people .closed their premises on Good Friday and opened on Saturday. Yesterday and to day are. observed as close holidays.

Mr and Mrs Kent Johnston leave for Otahuhu to-monow morning.

Mr and Mrs A. C. Jensen, who resided here many years ago, are at present on a brief visit to Foxton.

Train arrangements in connection with the second day’s racing at Feilding to-morrow are advertised. The weather for the Easter holidays has been all that could be desired in this district. Numbers of people took advantage ol the holiday excursion fares. There was a large number of visitors at the local seaside.

The Borough Band will play a few selections in front of the post office at 7.15 o’clock this evening, prior to the Patriotic meeting in the Masonic Hall. Returned soldiers are cordially invited.to be present at the gathering in th.e hall together with their relatives and friends and,the general public. The speakers will be Dr. Newman M.P. and Mr Hadfleld. A programme of selected items will be rendered, and the Ladies’ Patriotic Guild will provide refreshments. The Mayor will preside.

In a short address at the Wanganui Oprea House last week, following upon the Prime Minister’s recruiting speech, Mr W. A. Veitch, M.P., expressed the opinion that- the voluntary system had broken down, and the sooner they abandoned it the better. There was every argument for compulsory service, and it should be in operation now. Many men did not know whether it was “ up to them ” to go, and it was the duty ol the country to tell them. There were people urging others to send their sons away to the front, but who were sending their own sons into the bush for shelter. (Applause,) Compulsory military service was the only fair, proper, and equitable system. (Renewed applause.) What is probably a record among local bodies was referred to by Councillor Orbell, chairman of the Waikouaiti County Council, recently. When the accounts were under consideration, he pointed out that the payment of interest had been confined to is in seven years. This, he considered, was a credit to any local body. Even better still was the record established by the Clerk that for fifteen consecutive years there had not been a shilling of rates outstanding at the end of the financial year. There appeared to be every prospect of the record being continued unbroken, as, although the new year bad just opened, there only remained 2s 3d in unpaid rates. In the summons division of the Sydney Central Court last week Louis Klausen, a labourer, living in Castiereagh Street, Redfern, was proceeded against on an information, charging him with having made statements in the Domain which were likely to prejudice recruiting. It was stated on behalf of the prosecution that Klausen, a member of the I.W.W. Club, in the course of an address had said that men who put on khaki were hired assassins; also the men who fought at Gallipoli were not brave, but were a pack of “ mugs.” and should be in Callan Park. He defined a hero as a man who did something that he would not do in his calmer moments, and added that the possession of any country was not worth the shedding of any man’s blood. Klausen denied having used the words attributed to him. His father was a Dane and his mother a Scotswoman. He called several witnessess, who stated that they did not hear him make the statements. The Magistrate convicted Klausen, and in fining him with the alternative of six months’ gaol, said that he considered that such speeches as were made by Klausen would have to stop. He added that it was not fair to the men who were away fighting the cause ot the shirkers. Lost, strayed—gone none knows where, Twas with me yesterday, I do declare ; It racked my chest, my head was sore. It’s gone, I’ll ne’er see it more, What ? Not a cough ? Yes, yes, for sure; Lost when I used Woods’ Peppermint Cure, 3 When your groceries run low, it sets you thinking where you can buy the cheapest and best. There is only one store that keeps ringing in your ears and that is Walker and Furrie’s, Foxton.