LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1606, 5 September 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Aten of military age (twenty to forty-six years) should read carefully an advertisement in this issue setting out the obligations of Reservists under the Military Service Act in regard to enrolment in the Expeditionary Force Reserve, if they have not registered tinder the National Registration Act, or to notify their new address if their place of abode has changed since registration. Every man of military age who comes within the foregoing category has a duty under the Act. Neglect or delay in this matter makes offenders liable to heavy penalties, including imprisonment. A Reservist who fails to report a change of abode may be charged with desertion. The employment of non-enrnlled men or deserters is prohibited. A warning is given that onus of proof in every case under the Act is on defendant. Another important reminder is (hat it is safer to register than to attempt evasion of duty. Enrolled men have the chance of the ballot; men who are not enrolled may be sent straight into camp. Cards, forms, information, and assistance are obtainable at any post office.

The Queen of the South, hemp laden, sailed for Wellington last night. She is due back again with general on Thursday morning.

Some of the trophies for competition at the forthcoming Bulb Show are on view in Mr Patterson's window.

The Foxton Ladies’ Patriotic Guild forwarded to London yesterday a case containing 2(i4 garments for the Belgian Fund.

The Presbyterian Sunday School social will be held on Wednesday, 20th lust. The children will provide the programme, and are looking forward to a good time.

A woman, having tasted of the sweets of life and stopped in her headlong career at the brink of a moral precipice from which she cannot turn back, makes a striking figure in “The Golden Claw,” a sixact drama screened on the Triangle question will be satisfactorily settled with the Government.

A ith respect to the recently cabled comment by the Loudon Times on the alleged failure of New Zealand to fulfil its obligations in regard to the expeditionary force by the voluntary system, the Minister for Defence (the Hon. J. Allen) cabled the High Commissioner on Saturday as follows: “Please reply to ‘Times’ that it does not understand the situation, and is evidently ignorant that, in addition to the reinforcements drafts, we keep a reserve of approximately 1,000 for contingencies.”

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The usual mnnlhly meeting' of the Foxton Borough Council will he held in the Council Chamber on Monday, September 11th, 101(>, at 7.30 p.m. Business, general.

At the Patriotic Concert this evening in the Coronation Town Hall, there will be two sweets stalls, one' upstairs and one down, to be pi’esided over by Mesdames Preston and Waters and Misses F. and I. Robinson.

Mr Edward Newman, M.P., paid a (lying visit to Foxton to-day. Mr Newman is as keen as when our representative in Parliament for the welfare of the town and district and its people, and hopes that the wharf question will be satisfactorily arranged with the Government.

The Anglo-French joint Note presented to the Greek Government demands Allied control of posts and telegraphs, including wireless, on the ground that 'they are used to convey informal ion to the enemy; also the expulsion of enemy agents on the grounds of bribery and espionage, and necessary measures against their Greek accomplice's. It is understood Greece has no objection to the acceptance of the demands.

To-day certain sturdy New Zealanders reach military age (twenty years), and to-morrow’s birthdays will add more men to those who have obligations under the Military Service Act. These new Reservists have to comply with the conditions now proclaimed under the Act. This statement also applies to new arrivals in New Zealand, men of miltary age who become members of the Reserve by the fact of residence in the Dominion. The men concerned should apply for an en-rolment-card af the nearest post office.

Earl Grey, speaking in London at the farewell to the Australian Premier, said Mr Hughes, during his visit, had eleclrilied the whole nation. He trusted Mr Hughes was leaving for Australia only temporarily, and that if a General Election did take place lie would come back by the lirst boat. If he did so, his Lordship assured him (hat he would have the choice of litltl constituencies, any of which would consider it a great honour to have him as its representative.

At the Magistrate’s Court, Christchurch, in a case against a boy who was charged with kissing a girl against her will, Mr Cunningham, who appeared for the defendant, said that while it was a most reprehensible thing to kiss a girl, against her will, yet there were none in Court who had not kissed a girl at some time or other. (Laughter.) Mr Cassidy interpolated: “There’s nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.’’ The Bench, however, considered if the boy had been older he could not have regarded it as anything but very serious. Mr Cunningham said it would leach the hoy a lesson for the rest of his life. The offender was lined £3 and costs.

Public 1 reeling’ at Payroa and Waihi has been stirred (slates an Auckland correspondent) over a distressing' incident that occurred in the Paeroa cemetery a few days ago. A Waihi resident lost Ids wife, whose family resided at Paeroa. and the remains were brought, to the latter town for burial. While (he funeral service was being conducted it was noticed that a constable was in waiting with a horse and traj), and after the ceremony he arrested the bereaved husband on a warrant for failing to make provision for maintenance of an unborn illegitimate child. The assembled friends intervened, and it was found that the name of the person in the warrant was quite different from that of the man threatened witli arrest. The const able withdrew after being' satisfied that he had taken tin 1 wrong man, but the tactless action of the constable has been severely commented upon.

A very satisfactory trial run was made last week between Taihape and Taumarunui of a railway locomotive built at Addington, the first of the kind placed on the North Island lines. Seven engines of (hat type (says the New Zealand Herald) have been built at Addington workshops, six are giving satisfaction on the South Island linos, and the seventh was shipped some weeks ago for trial on the Main Trunk line long-distance l express. They are fast engines, capable of taking the express at sixty miles an hour, and so much satisfaction have they given that the Addington shops have been instructed to make twenty of them, inclusive of the seven delivered. They are a New Zealand creation, designed by Mr 11. H. Jackson, chief mechanical engineer, and ollicially known as the A-B class. A simple super-heated engine, with every modern appliance, and seems capable of pulling anything, as one railwayman expressed it. The first was put in commission in November last, and now the engines are running the expresses out of Dunedin and out of Christchurch. The most powerful engines in New Zealand are the X, on the Northern Alain Trunk line, also built at Addington, but these are practically goods engines, running from 25 to 30 miles, and not the fast express engine of the A-B class.

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The Rev. D. C. Bates wires as follows at noon to-day:—The indications are for southerly winds moderate to strong ut times, with westerly tendency. There is a prospect of fair to cloudy weather. Barometer unsteady. Sea rough, tides good swell.

“We must do everything in onr power to recover the birth-rate, as it was never more essential that onr great race should expand and cover the globe/' said Mr Walter Long to a deputation representing the Commission which has been inquiring for two and a-half years into the declining birth-rate. He was one of those who thought bachelors ought not to be allowed to - pay a rate or taxation no higher than that paid by married men with children, and he would bring this before the Chancellor of the Exchequer. There was in Canada room for a hundred million people, in Australia there was room for millions, and in South Africa there was magnificent territory from Capetown almost to the Zambesi. We must rear the children who were to be the men and women to occupy this land in the future.

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