The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 29, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1544, 29 April 1916, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Saturday, April 29, 1916. LOCAL AND GENERAL

During this week no less than 25 “drunks” have been arrested in Feilding. Mr W. H. Ferris, chief hemp grader, visited Foxton on departmental business yesterday. Mr H. W. Oben, late of the Post Office Hotel, Foxton, has taken over the Shamrock Hotel, Wellington. .There were 200 male patients and 83 females admitted to the Palmerston Hospital during the quarter ended March 31st. Sir James Wilson was on Thursday unanimously re-elected chairman of the Palmerston North Hospital Board for the ensuing two years.

Mr H. Daniell, local stationmaster, left Foxton yesterday on his annual leave. During his absence Mr J. J. O’Shea is relieving.

The half-yearly meeting of the Manawatu Flaxmills Employees’ Union is being held at Palmerston North to-day. A number of mills closed to-day on account of the meeting but others worked as usual this morning. At the recruiting meeting held at Otaki on Tuesday night, which was addressed by Mr W. H. Field, M.P. and Sergt.-Major Dent, several recruits were ob tained, and will shortly go into camp.

In accordance with a suggestion by the Under-Secretary for Lands, the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, decided that applications for land from recently mar ried men of military age would be rejected if the date of marriage be subsequent to June xst, 1915.

It is the intention of Councillor List to move at Monday night’s meeting of the Petone Borough Council: “ That all single men inthe council’s employ who have not enlisted and presented themselves tor examination for active service shall be dismissed after May Ist, 1916.’’

The Queensland Government is going in for competition with the grazier. It has resumed an area of 478 square miles in the Charleville district, and if it succeeds in growing meat profitably will take up yet piore land. An area of 478 square mjjes seeijas almost enough doesn’t It ? There are several sheep and cattle stations of over 300 square miles in that State. , The following was despatched by the local Ladies Guild to the Military Hospital Guild yesterday: Three dressing gowns, 22 day shirts, one waistcoat, four under vests, 12 pairs sox, 12 pillowslips, 12 towels, 17 bandages, 84 swabs, 12 pairs pyjamas; Countess of Liverpool Fund-—36 pairs hand knitted sox, 10 scarves, two chest protectors.

I canna’ leave the old folks now, I’d better ’bide a wee, Dad’s got a cold, and Mum’s not well And pipes the ithere’e. I’ll gang doon to the corner store Fof Woods’ Great Peppermint Cme, And Mum and Dad wil) 'greet” no more ; Aye— they’ll be richt for sure. 1:

Running a patent medicine concern is apparently a somewhat risky business in Bulgaria, for we read that in that country the proprietors of a medicine by which they claim to cure a specified disease are liable to be imprisoned if the medicine fails to produce the desired effect. It the British law were amended so as to be on all fours with Bulgarian ideas there would be a slump in the patent medicine business.

At the meeting of the Hospital Board yesterday the Government Statistician forwarded his estimate o! the population of the Palmerston Hospital District. It was as follows:—Kiwitea County 3148; Pohangina County 2034; Oroua County 4061 ; Feilding Borough 3579 ; Manawatu County 4695 ; Foxton Borough 1852; Rongotea Tow.n District 355 ; Kairanga County 4390, Palmerston North Borough 12,206, Maori population 640. Total, 36,960. Figures published by British life assurance corporations show that since August, 1914 nearly ,£7,000,000 has been paid in war claims. The industrial companies alone have disbursed £1,420,000 on 80,000 policies. Six months ago the German companies broke all their insurance contracts by arbitrarily reducing the amounts for which they were liable, but the British companies will, of course, continue to pay all claims in full.