NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 1743, 2 August 1917, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A yarn from Bill Denny, M.L.A., of South Australia, now a lieutenant of gunners on the Opposition cross-benches in France, is recounted by the Bulletin. An Australian N.C.O. in control of road traffic had orders not to permit troops to use a certain stretch during specified hours. Along came an English colonel at the head of his battalion, and was promptly checked, “Do you know who we arc?’’ ho snorted. “We’re the Guards!” Sergeant Billjim should have shrivelled to a cinder. But lie never even blinked. “I don’t give a damn if you’re the engine-drivers —yon can’t use this road,” he said. A doctor’s solemn warning: This is a warning to dappers. A girl who had made,. a practice of self behind a wall of rouge and face powder was-'altacked during the night by a mosquito. Her mask' having disappeared down the drain after a “before going to bod” wash, she was left unarmed. The night raider hit her. The dawn of (he next day saw her face with a swelling. The" next night she unconsciously sera (died the bite. The morrow saw her with a nasty mark on her face. The next night she was going to a dance, and she covered the sore with face powder to hide it. The next week she died of blood poisoning. That is what those ghostly poAvdered flappers will come to if they do not take care. American citizens resident in Noav Zealand have entailed upon them certain obligations springing from the entry of the United States into the Avar, and the carrying of a conscription measure. The United States Consul-General, Mr A. A. WinsloAV, has received a number of cards issued in connection with the national registration scheme, and his fclloAV-countrymen Avill he called upon to supply the information required in order to transmit partieu-' lars to their natWc State or county. The schedule requires the ordinary personal particulars, name, age, number of dependants, military experience, and any grounds for exemption from service. A useful device requires all citizens of African descent to clip a specified corner from the card, to facilitate classification. The covering instructions refer to men of military age —from 21 to 30 years inclusive —being called up in “selective drafts.”