LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1699, 17 April 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fourteen candidates have been nominated for the nine seats on the Palmerston Borough Council, and ten nominations have been received for the four seats as Palmerston’s representation on the District* Hospital Board. The Ambulancemen have temporarily vacated the camp at Awapuni, and are now housed at the Palmerston Showgrounds. After the race meeting on the 25th and 26th inst., the men will return to their former quarters.

Sir James Allen states that the principal causes of men being turned down in the military ('amps in New Zealand during 1916 were; 25 cases of tubercle, 43 of epilepsy, 27 of unsound mind, 73 of ear disease, 17 of asthma, 42 of appendicitis, 25 of heart disease, 43 of stricture, 15 of rheumatic fever, 33 of alcoholism, 32 of neuritis, 24 of neurasthenia, 45 of gastric disease, 61 of hernia, 7 of Hat foot and other deformity, and 112 cases of old injury.

A capital story is going the rounds in Hustings regarding a dashing young Hawke's Bay sheepfarmer, with plenty of pluck and a shrewd eye, who was sent out hy his commanding oflicer in Mesopotamia lo get information regarding the nature of the ground at the rear of Ihe Turkish lines. After an absence of some days he returned and duly reported to the general that “the country, if properly handled, would carry about three sheep to the acre!’’

One of (he first deer-stalkers to return with the results of his trip lo Hakaia Gorge is Mr George Sutherland, and he has secured one of (he finest trophies ever obtained from this herd. It has no fewer than 2-1 points, which is a Mew Zealand record for a red deer head. The previous record head for points was shot in Wairarapa by Mr N. Grace, and it has 22 points. Mr Sutherland's head is a remarkably line trophy, having prohaly a wider spread than any other shot in Bakaia Gorge, and the horn is heavy and well grown.

Adverse comment, is commonly made in New Zealand regarding the worn and filthy condition of many of (he bank-notes kept; in circulation. Over 200,00(1 separate banknotes are burnt every week by the Commonwealth Treasury officials. This statement was made by Mr Collins, secretary to (he Treasury, whim referring to a leading article in the Melbourne Age pointing out the numbers of dirty bank-notes that were in circulation. The notes having been cancelled, arc burnt in a special furnace in the Department, tilted with a wire grid. This prevents pieces of charred notes lint taring through the chimney and being subsequently produced for pa.v ment —as happened some years ago when the postal officials in Melbourne were burning certain sheets of stamps.

Mr Rudolph Hirter, a resident of Boss, Westland, for 50 years, is dead, at the age of 01 years. The deceased was a native of Berne, Switzerland. He was one of the earliest arrivals at Boss, and took a prominent part in public affairs for a long period of years. He was Mayor of Boss for two years, 188283, and also filled positions as member of the Totara Road Board, Westland County Council, Westland Education Board, and Boss School Committee, being chairman of the School Committee for many years. He leaves a family of one daughter (Mrs G. K. Sinclair, wife of the headmaster at Hastings school), and one son, Mr Emil Hirter, of Wellington.

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The local State School re-open-ed yesterday after the Easter vacation. Owing to the inclement weather and the prevalence of measles, the attendance was not up to the average.

Mr J. A. Nash has completed nine years’ occupancy of the Mayoral ('hair of the Palmerston borough, and his re-election yesterday is for a further period of two years.

A special meeting of the local Borough Council will be held in the council chambers on Friday, 20th inst., at 7.30 pan. sharp. Business: Appointment of gas works manager, roadmen, etc.

Some papers are starring the item that at the Ellerslie races on Easier Monday, a “sport” who had been given too great a dividend refunded the money to the (otalisalor clerk. Well, are they all thieves, save one, asks a contemporary.

To-morrow afternoon a parly of ladies from I lie Levin Croquet Club will pay another visit to Foxton. .Members of the local (dub are requested to be on the ground at one o’clock, so that an early start can be made.

The Minister for Internal Affairs has informed the Wellington Acclimatisation Society that opossums are protected absolutely in the Wellington district, and therefore no powers exist to grant an open season for taking these animals.

“it is nonsense to say that the meat trust exists iu only one part of New Zealand," declared Captain F. Colheck at the last meeting of the Auckland Fanners’ Union Executive. “it is all over the Dominion, and its operations are being felt more and more as time goes on."

An offender, charged with a breach of his prohibition order at the Palmerston Magistrate’s Court yesterday, excused himself by stating he was so pleased to see his brother return from the war that he forgot about his order. Mr AV. G. K. Kenrick, S.M.: Did you forget about shouting? Defendant: Oh, no, 1 never shout. His Worship: That will do.

The Rev. T. G. Hammond, who has been appointed general superintendent of the Methodist Maori Missions, was farewelled at Hawera last week. The Mayor (Mr E, Dixon) presented Air Hammond with an illuminated address, setting forth the value of his services to Taranaki and the esteem in which he was everywhere held, and a purse containing a cheque for £IOO. A conscientious objector in Wellington informed the Military Board that his “citizenship was in heaven.” Well, if he would only hurry up and get into the trenches it might expedite his passage to heaven —or someother place —but he does not appear anxious to leave New Zealand, which seems good enough for him, notwithstanding his claims of aristocratic citizenship, says the Eltham A rgus.

“The war drags its slow length on to victory,” writes a well-in-formed English correspondent. “What amazes me most,” he adds, “is the loyalty and unanimity' of the working classes. I never expected it of (hem. They seemed incapable of wide, unselfish views, or of anything beyond their own narrow self-interest. But we are all learning rapidly (even the politicians) ami growing into something a bit belter and greater’ than we were two years ago.”

Something of Mark Tapley’s spirit is shown by Mr .1. Vigor Brown, M.l’., Mayor’ of Napier. Speaking at (he opening of the new municipal buildings at Napier he, said he had learnt something that day arrd he was always open to learn. The Mayor of Hastings said he got kicked. Well, every public man got kicked. (Laughter). No one in Hawke’s Bay got kicked more than he did —(laughter)—and he was still there ready for more. ( Laughter and applause). Unless public men got kicked there would be no progress, because if they were not kicked they would remain where they were. (Laughter).

“We .should cherish most highly our State school system in New Zealand, which is often much criticised,” said i\lr W. L. Foster, at the Petone School on Saturday. The system should In; judged by its results, and the best and finest test — an infallible test —was being exercised at the present time in the way our men had laid, and were laying down their lives for the sake of their ideals in Egypt, Gallipoli, and France. They had laid down their lives but they had not lost them. It was the sacred duly of every citizen to stand by the present State school system.

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A full attendance is requested at the Girls’ Guild to-night, which will meet in the Council Chambers.

Out of the twenty-seven nominations for the city seats on the Wellington Hospital and Charitable Aid Board, twelve are ladies.

It is understood that Messrs G. Moore, H. Toogood, and H.' Bennett, of Wairarapa, have purchased the Waikarakara estate, of about 3,000 acres. The estate belongs to Mr Elgar. The price paid is said to j have been £22 10s per acre.

Lord Northclilfe says in connection with the duration of the war: “All that can be reported positively is that it is the preponderance of opinion hei’e, in Prance, and in Germany, that the war, if not actually linished, will be decided to all intents and purposes by duly.”

The death of Mr Charles Holla rd, which took place at his residence, Woburn road, Lower Hutt, on Sunday morning, removes from the district one of its most highlyrespected and pioneer residents. Air Mollard, who was sixty-eight years of age, lived at Lower tintt practically the whole of his life.

At. the Palmerston S.M. Court yesterday. .James Madden, proprietor, and Eva Coley, assistant, j (leaded guilty of keeping a shop open on Sunday, April Bth, for the purpose of business. Sub-Inspec-tor McKinnon said in such cases as these, where people sold soft drinks and such things, there was a tendency to go further and sell other articles, including cigarettes. His Worship said be would convict and line Madden ss, and dismiss the information against the other defendant.

One o!‘ the mosj remarkable subscriptions ever raised in Great Britain was the one initiated by Pitt in J 799, in which year England rejected Napoleon’s proposals for peace. Pitt appealed to all who could afford it to contribute voluntarily towards the expenses of the war. It was a splendid test of patriotism, and one that might with advantage be tried again. Over £2,000.000 was actually raised in this way —a, much more impossible sum than it looks when one considers that the population, largely poverty-strick-en, was then only about one-fifth its present size.

An interesting reunion occurred in Hornchurch Hospital, on March 30th, says the Auckland Star. During the fighting on the Somme, Rifleman A. Harper, of Devonport, was wounded in the left knee, and was sent: to Brockenhurst Hospital. Alter some weeks’ treatment he was removed to Hornchurch Hospital, where he is still undergoing a period of convalescence. Meantime his son, Sergeant G. P. Harper, who went with the Main Body, was gassed in (he fighting at Armentieres during November, and he, too, was sent to Brockenhurst. On the last day of March, Sergeant Harper was transferred to Hornchurch, father and son thus meeting again for (he first lime since last year’s great attack was begun.

01: late years (says the Japan Tiines) a tendency has been noticed that rural villages are on the decay and men dock to industrial or commercial towns. As agricultural pursuits have been looked upon traditionally as the fundamental and most important of all national activities, this apparently grave tendency has shocked both authorities and public men. Financiers have pointed out that farmers have had scanty assistance of hunkers and even when they have succeeded in obtaining (heir working capital from l hem they have had to payvery high rates. Thus small proprietary farmers are losing their estate, and farm land fails into the hands of a small number of capitalists. This is the primary reason why farmers have lost their interest in their father's calling and either become indifferent toward the improvement of their enterprises or deserted their’ villages.

The Mailara Mail understands that the Auditor-General has written to the Waitara Harbour Board pointing out (hat during the year ending Hist December last, payments for freight were made to Messrs Buyly, Ogle and Co., of a total of £l4l 10s Id, and, as %Ir Ogle is a member of the board, the payments contravene section 17 of the Harbours Amendment Act, ID 10; consequently it will be necessary for members to refund the money' to the board. Should they Jail to do so, measures for recovery will be taken. The Auditor-General further [joints out that the transactions operate as u disqualification against Mr Ogle as a member. That applies, however, only to the now expiring term. Section 17, referred to, allows a member of a harbour board to participate in a payment for work done or goods supplied to the amount of £25 for one transaction, or £SO total for a year. The money paid was for freight on timber brought from Wellington to Uaitara per s.s. Tainui, and it may be pointed out that the alternative was to have had such timber shipped through the breakwater, and railed to 1\ aitara at an increased cost of about 25 per cent., or the easier way of getting the Wellington shippers to have paid the freight themselves and attached the cost of the timber. That method the Auditor-General could have taken no exception to. The law had again proved itself an “ass.’’

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Nominations for the Mayoralty and Council close with the Returning Officer at 12 (noon) to-morrow.

Cr. W. E. Barber has been elected unopposed as the Manawatu County Council’s representative on the Foxton Harbour Board.

The result of the (ith Ballot, conducted last week for the purpose of completing the shortages in the 30th Reinforcements mobilising in eight weeks’ time, will be issued in the form of a Gazette Extraordinary to-dav.

During the past month] according to (lie Railway Officer’s Advocate) a number of superanuatod members have been taken on as casual clerks, in order that men eligible for military service might be released.

The shareholders of the Shannon Co-operative Dairy Co .have decided not to go in for casein manufacture, but to use the by-products for the raising of calves and pigs. Mr Hcnncssy urged that the Board of Trade’s attention be called to the difference in the price paid for pork by middlemen and that charged to the consumer. The fanner was being paid fid per lb. and bacon was retailed at Is 3d to Is ;><l per Hi. “During my fifty-two year-’ experience of the boot manufacturing trade at Home and in New Zealand I have never known such extravagance in footwear on the part of the public as at the present time,” said Air (1. A. (foies at a silting of the Military Service Board at Auckland. He stated that price was no bar, and women especially were going in for a very lavish style of bool, and shoe wear. He attributed to the shortness of the skirt now being worn the demand for the highpriced hoots for ladies.

Sixteen ministers of the Presbyterian Chureii ;ire serving as chaplains at the front. The Kev. I. Jolly, in supplying the figures to the Military Service Board, stated that one chaplain, Major A. (Irani, formerly of (lishorne, was killed in action on tlailipoli, and three other chaplains had returned home invalided. .Four oilier ministers arc serving in (he ranks and two are acting as Y.M.C.A. agents. Of the church's home missionaries, fen are on active service and two are serving as Y.M.C.A. agents. Thirteen of the students from the Theological Hall are on active service, and two arc at the front as Y.M.C.A. agents. Nineteen students from the university are serving a! the front, one is acting as Y.M.C.A. agent, and another as Bible-class agent. Mr Jolly said the Church did not intend to appeal in the case of every minister drawn in the ballot, but the position was becoming very dillicult, there being many stations at the present time without supplies. Suits made to measure, 72/-. Special otter for one month. 25 all- * wool Tweed Suitings to choose .from, and we guarantee you a good Jit. Don’t miss this opportunity at J. M. Barr’s Big Bargain Stores.*