LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1671, 6 February 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual camp of the Territorials will be held this year on the Wanganui race course, from April otli to 35th.

The recent gales have made tilings very unpleasant for residents at the seaside. The westerly gales drive the sand into the dwellings along the river front. The monthly meeting of the Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday, 12th inst., at 7.30 p.m. Business, general.

Among those who recently died of wounds in France was Sergt. J. Murphy, of the N. Z. Engineers, a nephew of Mr and Mrs Geo. Coley, and a member of the Second lieinforcements. Sergt. Murphy was through the South African War.

The death occurred at Levin last week of Mr Henry Powell, late of Linton, at the age of 82 years. The deceased went to Linton about 30 years ago from the' West Coast, and was an old colonist, having been in Now Zealand some 50 years.

John Floyd, arrested for drunkenness by Constable AVoods yesterday, was convicted and lined 5s at the local police court this morning, before Mr Hornblow, J.P. Constable AVoods slated that the accused, when arrested, was in possession of a bank book showing a credit of over £2OO.

At the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday 1 , before Mr Kenrick, S.M., George Phillips, a retired farmer, and Harold .Jarvis, (laxmiller, charged with breaches of the antishouting law, were each lined £5 and costs, and the barman of the Commercial Hotel a similar sum. The charge aganst the licensee was dismissed.

The District Electors Roll for the borough of Foxton is now being prepared. All persons, twenty-one years of age and over, who have been resident in the Dominion for 12 months and resident in Foxton for the past three months, are eligible for enrolment. Applications for enrolment must be in the Town Clerk’s hands by Thursday, the 15th instant.

A youthful frolic cost a man named Harr.v Stanhope £5 in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court recently'. The “joke” consisted of defendant wilfully giving a false aJarm to the City Fire Brigade. Defendant could not urge anything in palliation of the offence, and was ordered to pay the expense incurred, namely, £5, in addition to costs.

As a protective measure against (ire. the flaxmillers at Makerua Conned an association last week, to be known as the Makerua Fire Prolection Association. The ilaxowners recognise that co-operation is I lie only method of meeting - a common danger, as was demon-

si rated at the llax fires last week. The agreement of association provides that it is incumbent upon members to assist and to supply all the men necessary to light tire outbreaks, the association to bear the cost of lighting all tires, the members contributing to the fund on an acreage basis. The men are paid 2s (id per hour for day and 3s per hour Cor night in cases of lire. There are fourteen members in the association at present.

A good story is told concerning one of the medical military examining oflic ers. A recruit, who had twice been rejected for two different complaints, was finally called up in the second ballot, and duly presented himself for his third medical examination. “You will do,” said the ■ examining officer. ‘‘That’s strange,” replied the recruit, as I was turned down for trouble.” After further examining the man, the doctor said: “The man who rejected you evidently did not know his business.” “That’s stranger still,” retorted the recruit, “as the doctor who rejected me was yourself.” Then followed an eloquent silence.

( The attention of the Railway Department was drawn by the Palmerston North Chamber of Commerce this wcclc to a report that the recent serious outbreak of fire in the Tokomaru Swamp originated from sparks from railway engines. The General Manager has sent the following reply: —“I have the honour to inform you that the Chamber is entirely under a misapprehension in regard (o the matter. The locomotives used on the New Zealand railways are fitted with the bestknown appliances for arresting sparks; the apparatus is examined daily before the engines commence their runs, and the defects are immediately remedied. It is, I think, desirable to take this opportunity of removing a wrung impression from the minds of members of the Chamber, and to intimate definitely that the Department takes all resonablc precautions at all seasons of’the year, hut special attention is at ail times given to the matter when long spells of dry weather are experienced.” Wanted Known: Walker and Fume is the firm to supply housewives with every home necessity. Household ironmongery and bhrushware at the lowest prices.

On pages one artel four of this issue will be found interesting reading matter. Mr O’Brien, district health officer, visited Fox ton to-day, and has given the borough a clean bill of health.

The death occurred at Motuiti yesterday of a Maori girl named Wai Heta, aged about 13 years. Another native, a young woman übout 22 years of age, also died on Sunday at Himatangi.

The waterside trouble at Wellington has interfered with shipping at the local port, and no vessel has been at the wharf for several days. As the dispute appears likely to be settled, it is expected that the Queen of the South, from Wellington, with general, will arrive within the next dav or so.

C’apt. G. ■). (Dr.) Adams is now bacteriologist at Ripon Military Hospital, after being Regimental Surgeon to the Kith Royal Seels tor over two years, during which period he served over twelve months in tlie trenches with his regiment. An interesting letter from Captain Adams, which appears elsewhere in Ibis issue, will be read with interest bv his Foxton friends.

At the recent Junior National Scholarship examinations a Mangaweka State School hoy, just 13 years of age, Geoffrey Montalk, succeeded iu putting up a Dominion record of marks. His total was 71 (> out of 800. In arithmetic he obtained the possible 200; in Fnglisli 201 out of 300; geography 82 out of 100; history 8.1 out of 100, and science 02 out of 100. A New Zealand Gazette just issued shows young Montalk as heating the next best in New Zealand (Daniel F. Ait ken, Hawke's Bay, 037) by 70 marks. He heat the best of Canterbury by 80, Wellington 02. Auckland 04. Nelson 94, Otago 109, Southland 115, Taranaki 104. The second scholar in the Wanganui Education District (S. M. Goodridge, West End School, Palmerston North) succeeded in obtaining 017 marks, or 99 behind young Montalk.

“If families won't help themselves, they can’t expect us to help Diem,'' commented Mi 1 1. S. Kvans, S.M., cliairnum of tiie Ist Canterbury Military Service Board, in a case at Kangiora on Friday. “We’re not here to consider the likes and dislikes of a man. This is war time.” The case which occasioned these remarks was one in which the appellant was the only son left on a farm. He had a brother, who had -been working away from home since he was at; school, and would not work at home. This brother was single; he had eidisted and been rejected. The chairman added that at present the board had no power to compel the man to take his brother’s place on his father’s, farm, to allow (he appellant brother to go to the front, but he should shoulder his burden and help the rest- of the family. The case was adjourned for the appellant to be medicallv examined.