NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 1646, 5 December 1916, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

‘■Tin* chief essential al this moment is 'rime and nut Talk,” insists Ihe Daily -Mail. “The man, and at least a million of them, must ho obtained now, it they are to be trained tor next year’s work. K very one who reads this knows at least one young mm-combatant whose work could be done by a boy, an older man, or a woman. The Army needs him." That throat of Count Zeppelin to destroy Buckingham Palace would hardly have worried one English monarch, William IV 7 .. who frankly hilled it, and never would live in so hideous a structure. (I gorge IN', had a predilection tor low ceilings, so all the future inhabitants of the Pimlico Palace must endure suffocation (records Airs Jameson), and as His Majesty did not live on good terms with his wife, no accommodation was prepared tor a future (jueen of England. A reproach which was very largely removed by (jueen Victoria in the m.-iier years of her happy married life. Perhaps no Royal home in all Christendom has been so tinkered at, in different reigns, as Buckingham Palace.

The Women’s National Band Servicel Corps. London, has appealed for a,OOO educated women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-live.

"We aiv badly in need of I lie women," said (lie seerelary of the corps. “ll is essential that women workers should start their training at once to be ready to replace agricultural labourers who will be called up when the harvest is over. There were many exemptions granted for men until tin l harvest wa--in." It may sound incredible, bill some serious-minded people in (ierinaiiy are canvassing the adoption of polygamy as a remedy for 'depopulation. Several llerren Professors are quite keen on the idea. Some hold that monogamy has taken too linn a root for polygamy to become popular. Professor Christian Mhrenfcds would apparently go the ‘‘whole hog." If only in the interest of the preservation of the national vigour and the restoration of the population strength, so heavily reduced by the war, would il not, he asks, he advisable -—nay,even imperative —to lay aside after the war the severe moral code which restricts civilised peoples to monogamy, and to make a start by giving souk 1 permission to “the courageous lighters returning from battle" (o practise polygamy under certain conditions.