LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1611, 16 September 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Men of military ago (twenty to forty-six years) should rend carefully an advertisement in this issue setting out the obligations of Reservisls under the Military Sendee Act in regard to enrolment, in tin* Expeditionary force Reserve, if they have not registered under 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 eomes within the foregoing category has a duty undei 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 he charged with desertion. The employment of non-enrolled 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 that it is safer to register than to attempt evasion of duty. Enrolled men have jhe chance of the ballot; men w ho are not enrolled may be sent straight into camp. Cards, forms, information, and assistance are obtainable at any post office.

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No fewer then 753 towns were part hilly or totally destroyed by military operations in France since the beginning of (lie war up to the end of June, according to statistics gathered by'tin 1 French Ministry of the Inferior.

The death took place on Thursday at Feilding of Mr Daniel Tremewan, who has been a resident of (he district for upwards of 30 veal’s. The deceased gentleman arrived in New Zealand from Cornwall 50 years ago. With a view to advertising the war loan cert idea (os the postal authorities are now marking all mail matter with the words, “Buy some certificates,” in bold black letters. Not only inter-New Zealand mails are marked in this way, but also mail matter for overseas, so that tin* loan will receive advertisementin other countries, which may. perhaps, induce oversea New Zealanders to contribute.

A certain member of the New Zealand Parliament (states (he Christchurch Press) had been taunting enlistees with the fact that they had voluntarily taken on .(he position of slaves. “Well,” be said to one stalwart worker who had enlisted, “so you, Ido, have become a slave!” The worker retorted, “I had to (dioose between being a slave for my own country or being one for the (lermans, and I chose my own country."

To enter a lirst-class smoking carriage and to find snugly (“sconced there a young lady who looks no more than twenty is nowadays not worthy of remark. But when, as on a New Plymouth train this week, the young “lady” brought forth a cigarette and smoked it, repeating the action again and again, the surprise of the men in the carriage, though not openly manifested, was very real. —Wanganui [Jerald.

Police throughout New Zealand will be on (he wot eh f«r men who try to dodge their duty under the M'ilitnry Service Act. If n Reservist lakes the trouble to read an advertisement, a poster, or a placard, or calls at a post-ottiee, he will learn how to be at peace with the police. Constables are authorised to question a Reservist on the subject of enrolment, and they have power to claim him if they are not satisfied with his replies. Mvery Reservist should make prompt application for a certificate of enrolment which satisfies the police. This document also acts as a passport to employment. Carelessness or procrastination may bring much trouble upon a Reservist. The value of marram grass as a means of eliminating the sand nuisance is daily becoming more widely recognised, and the Dnnstan district people are making an effort to increase the area planted with Ibis grass, which nourishes so well in Central Otago. One of its chief virtues-is that it is a great drought resister, while the fact that: rabbits do not eat it is another great factor in its favour. Some twelve months ago, a small portion of a sand-bank in Clyde was planted, and so well lias it answered the purpose that an effort in a bigger way was decided on. The services of the older school children were requisitioned, and last week about a couple of scores of these put in a big day, when a considerable area was planted.

Some strong remarks were made at Gisborne a few days ago by Air \V. A. Barton, S.M., Avhen dealing with two charges against a man

charged with selling adulterated milk. After hearing Ihe evidence, the magistrate said that the responsibility was the defendant’s even if he did buy from other dairymen. Not long ago he had lined a man as much as £.20, but it had not been a deterrent. “1 am going to put a stop lo this,” concluded his Worship . “The line will be .C2O on each charge, Avith costs £1 -is (id. in default six weeks’ imprisonment. There are cases ail over the Dominion of the same kind. I should like it to be clearly understood that, if anymore of these cases come before me I shall go on increasing the penalty till I put a stop to if. The public is not going to be robbed any longer if I can prevent it.”

Some! hing new in hcat-h resort sensations was introduced at Iho lashionnbl<‘ Narraganselt Pier tho olhor day (writes the Auckland Star’s New York correspondent), when Mrs Benjamin K. Gatins liad onl lior Inishnnd’s polo pony, nnd rode him into Iho surf nnd up nnd down Ihe bench chid only in n pure silk bathing suit, nnd riding barehack nnd nstridc. Tlio fashion wns nl onco followed by n score oL‘ Iho wenllhy younger sol of women, nnd before the week wns out the beach wns n dizzy scene of women in an exhibition of raiment nnd limbs Dint the wet of the surf tended to display all the more "■listening'. Many were unseated by the surf, but it only added to the fun, and there were always enough men about to them remount if necessary.

“Now, Gladys, get in off that gasbox, It’s time all young girls were in bed; The nights are too cold for love-nonsense, And you have a bad cold in vour head.” “0, mamma, it’s so warm in this corner, There’s no need to worry. I’m

sure, For Bertie's just brought me a

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An experienced farmer who knows both Islands well, writing; I'roin Wanganui to friend in New Plymouth says: —“I have every confidence in good ])ricos in New Zealand for all classes of slock for many years, as all live slock in Kurope. is being sadly depleted.”

Caruso, the famous Italian operatic tenor, has accepted an offer of 200,000 dollars for thirty performances at Buenos Aires at the close of next season. This is the highest figure on record, and t wice his salary at the'Metropolitan Opera, House.

Maori soldier, writing to his sister at Rotorua, complains that the Maoris at the front now receive nothing in the shape of comforts. He slates that when they were with the pakehas they got comforts frequently, hut now that they have been made a separate 1 unit (hey appear to have been forgotten. By the death of Mr Colin Campbell, J.P., of Uevonporr, Auckland, which has occurred at a private hospital, New Zealand has lost one of her oldest pioneers. Mr Campbell, who was in his 84th year, was horn at Lochnell, Argyllshire, Scotland, and came to New Zealand when a young man, arriving in Dunedin by the barque John Rankine. Prom Dunedin he went to the Dunslan goldfields, and subsequently became manager successively of the branches of the Bank of New South Wales at Kumara, Ross, and flokil ika.

Writing of'the nerd for prayer, Mr F. If. Wilkinson, M.A., Y.M.C.A. Field Service Secretary, Cana! Zone, Egypt, slnl.es: —“If one liad 1(10 people lieiiiud one in this work, praying lor it with the same passion as thousands of mothers art* praying for the safety of their sons, I believe we eouid change- the spiritual atmosphere of whole camps. The Y.M.C.A. in the Homeland should he organising meetings for prayer Just as much as meetings for work and for finance.”

An event of more than usual interest occurred on board the steamer Rarawa on trip trom Xew Plymouth to Onehunga, completed on Saturday morning. When the vessel left Xew Plymouth on Friday night, there were 4!) passengers bound for Onehunga. Fifty passengers disembarked at Onehunga on Saturday morning, a child having been born to one of the passengers during the trip. The mother and child were removed to a private hos*pital on arrival, and on the latest advices both were gelling on very well.

A Xew Zealand “boy” at the front sent the following letter to a friend; —“Xothing new in my trench except wet weather, water, mud, bullets, sheels, rats, frogs, snipers; spring (lowers, swallows, bombs, mosquitoes, mice, whiz-bangs, frankfurters, lleas, fear of death, shrapnel, biscuits, sandbags, splinters, more rats, marmalade, machine guns, stretchers, stew, funk, fright fulness, fun, gas, grenades, stranding, more rats, picks, shovels, bayonets, noise, loss of sleep, slips, slides, tin hats, louder noise, more mud, more rats, ’nother loud noise. So long!” This is probably what Sir Douglas Haig means when he reports “it has been a day without incident."

A new Bovernment enterprise was foreshadowed in Sydney recently by the Minister of Education, Mr Briffith said that in the matter of sweets consumed by school children lie intended to take no chances. He had made arrangements with linns to put in automatic machines on condition that the sweets be supplied at wholesale prices, so that the retail profits would go towards the bcnelil of the school. To ensure purity and wholesomeness the sweets would be subjected to the keenest test that the Health Department could impose. He knew llds would be hard upon some shopkeepers, but the interests of the children were paramount.

■ A wounded soldier lately lighting “somewhere in Prance” records that liic sound of a lilting tune hud a wonderful effect upon men worn out. dog lived, and desiring nothing so muidi us sleep. “One night,” he suid, “when we hud been days in the trenches something or other hud huppened, the order come to go forwurd. Well, most of us were feeling half dead. W-e had hud u rotten lime —shell lire from somewhere we couldn’l see, und not much chance of hitting back. We hurdly seemed to have u leg to stand on. Then somebody begunto play on a mouth organ, ‘Hearts of Oak.' He played it pretty badly, but then l was something about the old time that bucked us up like anything. We took three Berman trenches that night."

Ail unusual incident occurred in tin 1 Auckland Police Court (his week (says (lie Herald). Constable' T. Cannon, who has recently returned to Auckland after seeing service in France, had concluded giving his evidence regarding a first offender, when Air F. V. Frazer remarked; “Is this not your first appearance since your return?” “Yes, Your Worship,” returned the constable. “I thought so,” said the magistrate. “I am very pleased to see you back, and I must congratulate you upon having done your duty for your country.” The constable thanked the magistrate for his kindly remarks. Constable Cannon was an Imperial reservist, and upon the outbreak of war went Home to join his regiment. When his time expired he was allowed to return to his family in New Zealand.

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The Presbyterian Sunday school annual social will be held in the schoolroom on Wednesday evening next, at 7.30 o’clock. A capital programme will be submitted by the young folks, and the ladies of the congregation will provide refreshments. Adults will be charged an admission of Is.

The 20th annual report of the Jubilee Institute for the Blind (Auckland) is to hand. It shows that the number of pupils in the house and school on March 31st was 5-1, and in the technical and industrial department 33. The sales of manufactured articles during the year amounted to £1,489, a decrease of £l7B 8s lid on the previous year. The payments to blind workers reached a record of £llBO Is 4d, in addition to the cost of maintenance of a number of them. Poxton subscribers contributed last year a sum of £4 19s (id to the maintenance of (his intsitution.

One of the most remarkable naval pictures ever presented to the public will be included in Monday’s change of programme at the Town Hall, entitled “Priend and Poe on the High Sea.” In this impressive picture the Berman licet is shown skulking in Keil harbour, and also in mimic action, a proceeding which was meant to allay the wrath of the Berman people at the inactivity of Mon Tirpitz's naval forces. In addition there is shown Britain’s powerful fleet sweeping the ocean, and protecting the merchant vessels from danger as they sail from port to port.

Miss Bertha Gower 1 , who has been conlined to her couch for the past seven or eight months, gave a concert at her residence last night, assisted by several of her playmates and schoolfellows. The guests were delighted with the talent displayed, and the fancy dresses. The proceeds from the sale of box seats, programmes, sweets, etc., realised £2 2s, which has been given to the funds of the Fox ton Girls’ Guild, who desire to record their grateful thanks for same. Every performer was presented with a choice bou(|uet. This is the second concert Miss Bertha (tower has given for the same object.

A slander case was recently heard in the Supreme Court at Xew Plymouth, when Ernest Xeilson sued one of the leading men of Patea, James Augustus McKenna, for using words to him in the street imputing that he had been or ought to be in gaol.' The jury gave a verdict for the full amount claimed (£501) and costs, but certain legal points wen l reserved for argument before Mr Justice Edwards in Wanganui. After the matter had been distressed the other day, his Honour held that the case had been rightly left to the jury, and on the plaintiffs application judgment was given for £5Ol damages, costs, and witnesses’ expenses. Costs, amounting to £lO 10s on the adjournment motion for judgmenl were allowed to the plaintiff

"1 think it is a monstrous shame that at such a period as this our market should be; Hooded with foreign motor ears,” said the Mayor of Christchurch (Mr H. Holland) at the annual meeting of the Employers' Association on Wednesday night. “It is most unfair to the British manufacturer, who is forbidden to export his goods while munitions are making such a demand on material. We could do without such business during this strenuous time. After the war let there be fair competition, which there is not at present, when the British manufacturer is out of the market." Mr Holland's remarks met with general approve 1( reports the Press).

The women of Otaki have hived it IT from the Patriotic Society in that locality in order to enlarge their scope of operations, and they have formed themselves into a Red Cross Build. They are in want of funds to assist them in their laudable work. To this end they arranged to hold a concert on Friday next, and hearing of the splendid concert put on at Foxton, they enquired whether the local folk would be good enough to assist them by repeating the performance there. A reply was sent that the Foxton performance would be repeated at Otaki, and tickets were printed and all arrangements made by the Otaki ladies. Then some of the Foxton performers thought that the distance was 100 great —28 miles — and that parents would object’and that the time was too short. A I furl her letter was sent from Foxton to the effect that the concert would be given at a later date. This upset the Otaki arrangements, and a majority of the Foxton performers have decided, like true sjmrts, to assist the Otaki ladies, and Mr Aitken and Mrs Freeman, the organisers of the concert, have decided that Otaki shall not be disappointed, and nearly all the company have decided to make the journey. The next question is that of transit, and an appeal is made to owners of motor ears to assist in the object by conveying performers to Otaki on Friday. All those willing to assist in this connection are asked to notify either Mr Aitken or leave word at the “Herald" office. We are sure there will he a liberal response. The performers are to be entertained at tea .on arrival at Otaki on Friday evening in Bright’s theatre. A further announcement in connection with the arrangements will be made iu our next issue.

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The arrivals in New Zealand during the month of August numbered 1249, and the departures 1449. For August, 1915, the arrivals were 1919 and the departures 1705. The Queen of the South, from Wellington with general, arrived yesterday. She sailed for Wellington this morning with hemp, and is due back again with general on Tuesday.

A dance was held in the Masonic' Hall last night in aid of the Wonnded Soldiers’ Fund. About 40 couples were in attendance. A waltzing competition was won by Mr Hunt and Miss White, with Mr Carter and Miss Archer and Mr Williams and Miss Gray equal second. Miami Mrs Ellwood were awarded a special prize for the .best waltzers and best attendance during the series. In answer to the recommendation of the Dominion Conference of the Farmers’ Union on the sale of endowment lands, the Right Hon. Mr Massey has replied; “I have to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the Bth inst., conveying a resolution passed by the Dominion Conference of the New Zealand Farihers’ Union urging the Government to amend the provisions of the Land Act relating to National Endowment as suggested by Mr J. M’Queen, and in reply to inform you that I do not see my way to deal with such a contentious measure at the present juncture of affairs.”

A deed of Hie greatest bravery performed by a Alaori soldier, Private Andrew Dickey, is recorded in a letter sent from Prance by a comrade a few weeks ago. Dickey, the letter states, was one of tin 1 crew of a trench mortar, which, as is now generally known, (ires a large spherical bomb on a rod, only the latter entering the bore of (he gun. A time fuse attached to the bomb is lit a few seconds before the mortar is lired. On this occasion the gun failed to go off, and the bomb remained in situ with the fuse burning. It was plain (hat a disastrous explosion was imminent, and that nobody in the vicinity would escape if the bomb went oil. Dickey, who was standing near the gun, had the presence of mind to withdraw the charge and pull out the burning fuse, thus saving the lives of all concerned. The writer states that he received the story from one of the gun's crew, so that its accuracy may be relied on. He believes that Dickey was awarded the D.C.M., and adds, “Whether or no, he deserves it.”

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