Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1834, 1 June 1918, Page 2

Manawatu Herald SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Levin Borough reserves lust year brought in u revenue of £624. Owing to Monday being u holiday, the monthly meeting of the School ■Committee will be postponed until Monday week, 10th inst.

Among (lie New Zealand soldiers reported as “missing, believed to be prisoners of war,” appears the name of Private H. Heather, of Eoxton.

The, following are the vital statistics for Eoxton for the month of May: Births 4, deaths 1, marriage certificates issued nil.

During the month of May rain fell'locally on eight days, the maximum fall occurring on the 24th, when .86 was registered. The total, for the month was 3.20 inches. Advice has been received that Private AY. C. Dicker, who joined the Now Zealand ’ Expeditionary Forces from Eoxton, was admitted into hospital in France, between 17th and 25th May, suffering from contused head and shoulder. Mrs Dudson received a cable from the authorities yesterday, stating that her son, Pte. Syd. Dudson, who was admitted to hospital in England suffering from shell wound, had his right arm amputated on May 25th. Her other son, Pte. Ernest, is, also in hospitaj suffering from straihed hack,

A special meeting of the Wanganui Education Board will be held on Wednesday next, to consider the* resignation of the Chairman (who has been selected as one of the N.Z. press representatives to visit the front), and the vacancy caused by the death of Mr H. M. Payne, and other business.

A\ T e congratulate the head teacher of the local State school upon the loyal and Imperial spirit he is infusing into the local State school. AVe regret to say that there is an undercurrent of disloyal sentiment abroad which requires not only to be scotched, but stamped out.

NAZOL is not a mixture or syrup --but a breathable remedy. Tackles coughs add colds by direct action. No cold is NAZOL-proof. 60 closes 1/6,

The, offertories at All Saints’ Church to-morrow will be given to help the work among the Maoris of the Diocese.

I- know a man /who was turned down by the Medical Board as C2 on account of a weak heart six months ago, and he has been shovelling gravel in a pit ever since/ — Captain • McDonnell, at the Appeal Board in Palmerston on Wednesday.

“New Zealand is the most prosperous country in the world,” said the Hon. W. D. C. MacDonald, in the course of a speech at the Farmers’ Union smoke concert in Masterton on Tuesday evening. “This is not due to the Government, but it is due to the loyalty and the industry of the people.” Bernard Kromen, a muscular Russian swagger, with a bad record, ran amok in Pahiatua'on Thursday, and smashed the windows of several business premises. The damage amounted to £SO; in one instance a plate-glass window was valued at £34. Kromen was fined £4O, in default twelve months’ imprisonment. Mr W. H. Field, M.P.,. at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society at Wellington, .stated that in former years tuis used to be very plentiful in the Waikanae district, but. some time ago these beautiful native birds were shot out. He had recently seen a number of tuis at Waikanae, and it was pleasing to know that they were making their appearance there again in numbers.

A Parliamentary press correspondent writes regarding Mr Holland, the newly-elected member for .Grey: “Old Parliamentary hands smile at the suggestion of his setting the House of Representatives afire. They predict he will find his level just as quickly as isolated firebrands have in the past, and after a session or two, if the present Parliament endures so long, will cheerfully accept th'o inevitable.” Sir Ernest Clarke, head of the British Red Cross in France, states that the Salvation Army Ambulance Sections “are quite the best of any in our service.” Similar tributes could be multiplied, and it is certain that no one who gives this week to the Red Jersey Fund, will give in vain. It is doubtful if any appeal of the kind has ever had a better claim on public patriotism. The appeal closes on Monday. , In the obtiuary column recently of the Southland News was recorded the deaths of four old identities; whose combined ages totalled 340 years—an average of 85 years. Tins proves that the climate of Southland is conducive to longevity, and will compare favourably with any other part of the world. With in the last few months the deaths have been recorded in Invercargill of four persons over the age of 00 years. Captain Munro (chief wharfinger to the Wellington Harbour Board) told the Waterside Accidents Commission, says the N.Z. Times, of a man, sixty years of age, who earned £5 for his first week’s work on the wharf; and then he wanted to know why he had not got more overtime. ' He had to put the man off the wharf later, because of his inexperience. If allowed to remain he would have injured himself or someone else. There were a lot of that sort of men coming on to the yvharf now.

The .super-tax is levied on everyone having an income of over £3,000 per annum. The total.number of these fortunate individuals in the United Kingdom is 27,682. It is interesting to note that of these eighty-two had an annual income of £IOO,OOO. The wealthiest man in Great Britain is said to be Sir John 'Ellerman, the owner of several large shipping lines, whose annual income is over £1,000,000. Other shipping magnates who have recently become immensely wealthy are Lord Pirrie and Lord Ineheape. After an absence of over a quarter of a century, Mr C. Spring, of Foxton, recently paid a visit to the Nelson district. He informs us that he was greatly impressed with the apple-growing industry. He saw land there under apple cultivation which in the years gone by would not run a goat to the acre, and would not be taken up at a gift. Now it is worth from. £6O to £IOO per acre. He paid a visit to the ap-ple-grading stores, and describes the methods of sorting and grading as wonderful. Apples showing the slightest bruise are rejected for cool storage purposes, and tons of rejects are destroyed. The apple orchards were a great sight. Mr H. E. Holland, the newlyelected member for Grey, was born near Canberra, New South Wales, in 1868.. Along with Mr W. A. Holman, Premier of New South Wales, he joined the Australian Socialist League in the earliest days of Labour agitation in Australia. He was instrumental in the formation of several of the largest unions in that country, and was actively engaged in pioneering the Labour press of the Commonwealth. He was one of the six straight-out Socialist .candidates who took part in the first Senate election in Australia. Since 1913 he has been editor of the Maoriland Worker, to which position he was unanimously elected, and since then he has been well known in connection with the Labour'movement in New Zealand.

"When colds and influenza are prevalent let NAZOL protect your family. One dose a day keeps colds away. Good for all ages. 60 doses for 1/6.

Why bother making when there is such a good assortment at PerreauV* .... ,

Special revival meetings will bo conducted to-morrow in the Salvation Amy Hall. Intercessory prayers will be offered at each meeting for soldiers and relatives, and the termination of the war.’

The British Government recently invited five editors or owners of newspapers in New Zealan'd to visit Great Britain and the western front as the guests of the Ministry. It is understood the following will represent the New Zealand press; Messrs Fred. Pirani (Peilding), L. Blundell and C. Earle (Wellington),’ M. Reading (Christchurch), and G. Fenwick (Dunedin).' A record-day’s work was done at the New Zealand Flying School, Kohimarama, Auckland, on Monday. No less than 78 instructional flights were made during the day, the machines being constantly in use all day. As a finish to the day’s work a flight of three ’planes'was made up the harbour towards evening. The machines passed close oyer the wharves, and attracted considerable attention, ,

The Chairman of the Wanganui Education Board interviewed the Minister of Defence on Thursday on reference to two teachers — Messrs J. Aitken junr. (Poxton), and Kibblewhite- —who have ► returned by the hospital ship, and will be six months or so in New Zealand before they resume duty in the ambulance section. The Military Service Board has already agreed that they should be allowed to resume teaching, and the Minister gave that, if possible, their services should be made available at once.

“There is no more important question in New Zealand at the present time than that concerning teachers and teachers’ salaries, and I can assure you that my colleague, Mr Hamm, realises that,” stated the Hon. W. D. S, MacDonald, Minister for Agriculture, at the Farmers’ Conference. “Only a few weeks ago Cabinet studied the problem, and agreed to increases involving a total sum of £15,000 per annum. We all feel convinced that education is the greatest problem in New Zealand to-day. Reform will come, and everything possible will be done to properly mould the character of our future citizens.” Persons in the habit of deriding the Cl Camp (says the Post) will be interested to learn that, if the recruits from this particular military institution cannot walk (one political! has asserted that they do a" short route march in ambulance vans and ammunition wagons), at any rate they can box; and on performances they box better than the average of their comrades who are in the first instance more fit physically. The winning company in the boxing tournament conducted by the 38th Reinforcements was the one which has been recruited to a great extent from the Cl Camp, and two of its representatives, who won the heavy-weight and welter-weight events, wgre ex-Cl men.

The first of series of socials',‘ held under .the sfuspices of the local Presbyterian Church, was held in the schoolroom oh.,.Thursday evening, Those contributing to the programme were: Mesdames Cronquest, Freeman, Stevenson, Miss Bryant, Messrs Bai'r, Knewstub, Cronquest, Cbrystall, Hornblow, T. Henderson, Simmons, and' H. Signal. Mr Simmons received a double encore for his instrumental selection, and Messrs Barr and Signal received an ovation for their vocal duet. The Rev. J. H. Bredin occupied the chair’, and at the conclusion thanked the performers. The ladies of the congregation supplied refreshments.

The London correspondent of The Post sttes that The Guardian, a leading English Church newspaper, devotes a leading article to the ease of a New Zealand officer who recently answered in Pearson’s Magazine the question: “What Comes After .this Life?” He says that, “brought up in the narrowest circle of mid-Victorian thought, he had arrived at a feeling of boredom at the thought of an eternity of monotonous worship of an Unapproachable Being,” but in face of “the marvellous unselfishness in everything” displayed by the men around him on the Anzac Beach, this attitude of mind fell away, and he fixed his faith in “an actually present spirit of Divinity on Anzac Beach”