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Nelson Evening Mail, 19 September 1916, Page 6

Mr Tait's organ recital in All Saints' Church, which was postponed on account of the weather, will be given to-morrow (Wednesday) evening at 8 o'clock. A collection will be taken for the choir surpvtices fund.

The extent to which the coastal shipping and ferrv companies may be affected by the enforcement of the provisions of the Military Service Act has been represented to the Minister for Marine, the Hon. Dr. M'Nao, by an Auckland deputation introduced by Mr J- S. Dickson, M.P., during the present week. It was' stated hv members of the deputation that there was a probability of the services being seriously affected when the Act was put into operation, unless provision was .made for exemptions. The Minister stated that the question of exemptions would be a matter for the Militarv iService Boards. He pointedi out that no class of men would be exempted in a bodv, but that each individual case would fee considered separately.

Mr H. Otterson, C.M.G., has arrived in London after a year's stay in the back blocks of Rhodesia, (writes our London correspondent, under date 27th July). He came to meet his son, Mr Geoffrey Otterson. who came from New Zealand by the Maheno for further advice concerning his injured leg. He was at Walton Hospital for a time, but has now been moved to the Orthopedic Hospital at Shepherds Bush. Mr G. Otterson owns a farm in South Africa, and in all likelihood he and his father will go back there for a time, returning eventually to New Zealand. Mr H. Otterson has not quite recovered from the effects of ma larial fever, contracted in Rhodesia. — is an Old Boy of Nelson College).

The hotelkeepers in and about Dunedin are finding their ibar takings considerably reduced as the result of the antishouting law (says the Star). This, of course, was expected. What was not so clearlyr foreseen is that the percentage of profit has been very much cut down. It comes about in this way : —When men went into a 'bar to have a yarn or do a bit of business, and one shouted, the other or the others foresaw tfoeir turn, and knew that there wouid !be at least two drinks each, and they prepared accordingly by helping themselves sparingly. That was the old' practice. Now, since a man only goes in for a drink when he wants one, lie takes a real drink, I and at tlhe present prices of liquor the full-sized drink: at sixpence leaves very little profit. WhisQcy, for instance, has nearly, if not quite, double in price since the war started. A whisky-and^-soda costs tihe publican every fb-it of the sixpence he is paid for it. A port wine and brandy cannot 'be served under albour 8d or 9d. The position is that the publicans' profit was in complimentary' drinking, and that has gone. It is understood' that the hotelkeepers in Dunedin are prepared to go on a little longer and give the system a fair trial, but if no help comes they will have to consider the question of raising tihe price of spirits. Johnny: "What is a counter-attack?" Pa: "When your mother goes shopping, my boy." Halos are cheaper than hats, .but less •becoming, judging 'by the appearance of the people who go in for them. To be jeaJlous without cause shows a small nature, fbut not to be jealous when there is cause shows a small love.