Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1938. Be Just and Fear Not. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mt Benger Mail, 26 October 1938, Page 3

Mt. Benger Mail WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26, 1938. Be Just and Fear Not. LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Commissioner of Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in today’s issue that the due date of payment of Land-tax for the current year is on Monday, the 7th day of November, 1938, and that the demands will be posted on or about the 31st day of October. Returned Men’s Health. Mr W. P. Forrester (Dunedin), District vice-president of the R.S.A. stated at the reunion at Lawrence that census records, etc., showed that the returned soldier appears to have five years expectation of life less than ordinary men. The R-S.A. therefore, he said, were urging that returned men should be eligible for pensions five years earlier than the ordinary man.

Mounted Rifles. A three-day mounted rifle camp at -which twenty men of the local troop attended was held at the weekend at Waimumu, near Gore. Over 60 men from Gore, Otautau, Wyndham, Lumsden, Millers Flat, Lawrence and Beaumont were under canvas. The company was fully equipped, and the men underwent extensive training in mounted rifle tactics. The camp was under the command of Major 0. L. Perens, 0.C., Otago Mounted Rifles, while others attending the camp included Major C. Lees (Invercargill), Major F. J. Brook (Beaumont), Lieut. Mowat (Clydevale), Captain W. R. J. Pollock (Gore), Lieut. R. McKinlay (Lawrence), SergeantMajor J. Fitzgerald, N.Z.P.S. (Dunedin), and Sergeant C. Rudd, N.Z.P.S. (Dunedin).

Centennial Courts. One interesting feature in the Otago area at the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition will be a relief model of part of the City of Dunedin, Otago Harbour and surrounding hills. This large exhibit, with a diameter of 20 feet, will reproduce faithfully in relief a miniature of the heart of the city, merging into hills in the background, and showing Harbour and water-front in the foreground. Included in it will be models of shipping, etc., as well as models of the Town Hall and Octagon, St. Paul’s Cathedral and First Church, Queen’s Gardens with War Memorial, Stock Exchange and Post Office buildings, certain of these being internally illuminated. It is proposed to animate the main streets with trains and cable cars. A bas-relief of Oam-aru quarry will be shown and models of scenic _ attractions such as Lake Wafcatipu with Remarkables, whilst consideration is being given to showing a scale model of the Clutha River together with farming, gold dredging and coal mining activities.