LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1824, 9 May 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Police Sub-Inspector McKinnon was a visitor to Poxton to-day. Mr W. H. Ferris, chief hemp grader, was in Foxtou this week. He left for Auckland to-day. The monthly meeting of the local State School Committee will be held on Monday evening next. The record number of 43 appeals was dealt with at the sitting of the Military Service Board in Palmerston on Monday.

“If one-quarter of what Germany has done in France and Belgium was known, the women of England would see that no conscientious objector dared show his face,” said Lord Denbigh at Winchester.

The Patriotic Shop will be open as ususal on Saturday, and will be in charge of Mesdames McMnrray and Renton. .

A whole herd of over 40 dairy cows in the Waitoa (Te Aroha) district was recently sold at £25 per head.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Foxton Borough Council will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday, 13th inst., at 7.30 p.m. Business, general. Tenders are invited by the Foxton Harbour Board for cutting firewood at per cord, or a lump sum for clearing up fallen timber on portion of the Round Bush. Mr J. A. Macdonald, business manager for Malini, the world’s greatest magician, was. in Foxton yesterday making arrangements for the appearance of Malini at the Town Hall on Tuesday evening next. The death occurred suddenly yesterday of Cyril, the sixteen months old son of Mr and Mrs Robert Service, of Foxton. The immediate cause ,of death was heart failure. The funeral took place to-day. The Foxton branch of the Labour Party has had two wins since its formation a short time since. It secured the return of one of its nominees on the School Committee, and at the Municipal by-election the Party’s candidate topped the poll. A meeting of members of the Patriotic Society and all interested in patriotic work, will be held in the Council Chamber at 8 o’clock tomorrow night, to make arrangements for a patriotic carnival, to be held on June 3rd (King’s Birthday).

All members of the local rifle club are requested to roll up on the rango on Saturday, and the following Wednesday, for class firing, so that the ammunition grant for next year will be forthcoming. Shooting will start punctually at 1.30 o’clock, each day, and ammunition will be supplied free. The Defence Department advises that Returning Draft No. 160, comprising 46 officers, 8 nurses and 787 n.c.o’s. and men, will arrive in New Zealand this month. The draft contains the following from this district; —Private W. Crichton, PoxPrivate C. le F, Honore, Poxton; Private R. M. Rimraer, Foxton; and Private B. P. Mohekey, Moutoa.

Fourteen members of the local Bowling Club turned up on the green yesterday to assist in the work of levelling and top-dressing the croquet lawn. Wheelbarrows, a dray, and a scoop were used in shifting the spoil, and good progress was made. The ladies kindly provided afternoon tea' for those assisting with the work.

Sir James Allen, stated at-Auck-land yesterday that no great difficulty was experienced in securing the additional number of men required by the Imperial Government. Unless circumstances involved the alteration of plans, Class B men now being medically examined would probably be going into camp when the reinforcements fell back to that strength prior to the recent request for an increase.

“You need not do all this jjloughing,” said Mr Perry, to an appellant at the Military Appeal Board at Palmerston North. “Of course, you would not make as much money if you did not.” “It is not a question of money. It is a question of feeding the soldiers,” said the appellant. “Oh, you needn’t worry about that,” said Mr Perry, “they are not feeding soldiers on fat lambs.” The Huntly miners will hold a stop-Avork meeting to-day to co'nsidor their grievances. These Sre: First, the explosive supplied is said to be very weak; second, the new safety gates in the cages ordered by Mr Reed, Chief Inspector of Mines, are said to be so slow and awkward in operation that the men lost much time, and therefore an equivalent amount of money.

The Minister of Justice (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) has received the final report of the police regarding the search for shirkers at tho Awapuni races. The report states that the names of the men taken at Awapuni; have been checked, with their statements, and that all have been found to be duly enrolled reservists, and resided at the addresses, given by them to the police. Of the 1,090 men interrogated during the two days’ race’meeting, the police authorities did not succeed in finding one man who could be designated a shirker.

The National Association of War Orphans has for its object the saving, care, feeding, clothing, and education of all war orphans, no matter of what Allied nationalities, what creed, and what station in life. It accepts or sends for the orphans without delay, red tape or formalities of any kind, and puts the orphans under the care of specially appointed mothers (all war widows), who become a second mother, to the children. At present an appeal is being made throughout New Zealand for funds for this very deserving cause, and Mesdames J, H. Robinson and A, E. Green have undertaken the appeal as far as Foxtou is concerned. They will be pleased to receive donations, and on Saturday, May 18th, are conducting the Patriotic Shop in aid of the fund, and appeal to residents for goods for same.

For Bronchitis or Asthma inhalq NAZOL through the Nazol Inhaler. Immediate relief will follow. Start taking NAZOL TO-DAY. Why bother making cakes when there is such a good assortment at Perreau’s* _ -

' The New York Times, in an editorial, says: “Ireland runs, over with prosperity, while England lives on close rations. We have heard too much of the wrongs of Ireland. For a generation England has sought to confer benefits on Ireland and to redress old injuries. Is England to blame for the quarrels of Irishmen? The abstention of so many Irish from the war seems to us unintelligible and monstrous.” Sir James Allen emphatically denies that men exempted on religious grounds are benefited at the expense of men going away. Wherever ho had examined cases, he had generally found the Military Service Boards had ample evidence to justify their action. A religious objector had to leave his occupation and go to work for the State. The assertion that religious and conscientious objectors would scoop another man’s business was untrue.

The Frankfurter Zeitung, commenting on the raid on Zeebrngge, says; “It is foolish to deny that the British fleet scored a great success, penetrating one of the most important strongholds over which floats the German flag. There is no reason why they should not achieve a similar feat at other times. It behoves our naval command to be alert.”

What Judge Parry described as a romantic career, was that of Albert Cox, who appealed at the Pensions Tribunal in London. In his time he had been: A sheep-farmer in New Zealand, rough rider, petty officer in the Navy, employee at whaling station, detective in India, Sergeantmajor of the Foreign Legion before Antwerp, instructor in Machine-gun Corps, and was discharged, at 50 years of age, as medically unfit owing to defective hearing. TL* appeal was allowed. “There is,” states the Chronicle, “a growing feeling in Levin that a little more light should be thrown upon the conditions under which an ever-increasing number of conscientious objectors to military service are employed on the Central Development Farm at Weraroa,” and how these men, “lacking nothing on the physical side, have managed to escape a law that has spared neither ‘the last man on the farm’ nor the ‘absolutely essential’ expert from a hundred industries.”