LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 62, 17 June 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The net profits for the year of live State hotels in West Australia was £3070, states a cablegram to-day from Perth. One defendant, at the sitting of the Court yesterday, asked by the Magistrate what he did for a living, replied with a smile: *‘J work for it.” Mr ihiseldeu was not satisfied with the answer, and from counsel ascertained that the man was a laborer. The local manager of the N.Z. Loan and .Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., has received advhe from the Chief inspector for New Zealand, that the Loudon Board lias detailed to pay the staff a war allowance on 1916 salaries of 1U per cent. r l his also applies to oftieei s at the front and in camp, who are drawing half pay. At the Stratford Magistrate’s Court yesterday judgment for plaintiff by default was given in the following civil cases: James and Coy. (Mr P. Thomson) v. A. Dunbar, £7 11s 10d, costs Pi 3s 6d; George Hue {Sir Trubv King) v. A. A. Nelson, £l/ bs Sd, £1 Ids Gd ; A. R. I). Carbery (Mr S. Spcpice) v. Walter Brown, £5 10s, p'l 3s Gd.

During a discussion on land for returned soldiers at the meeting of the j Taranaki Farmers’ Union at Elthani j on rhursda;.’, -Mr Washer, of Patea, i said he was at Meremere (states the A■ the other day and if that was ; vi . l ;i:|)l v ' of the land the 1 hmrnment was going to get for returned soldiers, —v. ell, (uid help the soldiers. Ihe knd was ahmlmely unsnitahle, and if a wounded man got down in one ol those gullies he would not gef_ no again. .Mr Buckemige said lie knew tlie country ami could endorse what Mr Washer had aid. Some years ago he had lost a deg there, and although he could hear it harking it lom. him linecda vs to gel to it. Another time he was three weeks practically without w , 1 1• r. i'he river was only a mile and o d'd! ;u a direet line, but it took him :;,ve lionrs to get dow n to the bed. In hi- cp.nion it would no practically uun-dei to nut -nine id the returned soldier,, up there. i

The police are still working on the Stratford burglaries, but up to the lime of going to press no arrests hud been made. Scivet and other collections yesterday .a Folding for the widows and u; pita ns of the men lost in the Jutland fight totalled £looo.—Press Association. -Mr R. Masters, member of the Taranaki Education Board, has received word from the Hon. J. A. Hunan (Minister for Education) that a grant of £B2O has been made for the Radnor Road School. A new concrete pipe culvert has been iaid down in Broadway across Fenton Street, to cany the surface water Iron: one side channel to tho other, 'ihe old culvert was broken and would not stand the heavy traffic passing over it. I lie space around the new pipes has been filled in with concrete. In reply to the Magistrate’s remarks at yesterday s sitting of the ( ourt, that as lung as he was Magistrate in the district he would not allow I arrikinism, Sergeant Dale said that ol late the police had continually been visiting Douglas on tho application of residents. Since the police visits, how; . Douglas was quite a different p!" -e. Mr. ('. il. Buckeridge has offered in’s services to the Taranaki Provincial Farmers’ Union as honorary organiser. for a month or more if necessary. : e will visit the various unions, sin •■gtheuing their organisation am: dealing with other matters of interest to farmers. He also hopes to lire fresh ground, and also to establi;. branches at places where none cr. c.at present. Manaia and Stratie • I were mentioned in this respect, id an attempt will he made to rev;. * rim Hawera branch.

A man who was charged with the disobedience of a maintenance order in respect to his wife and five children at the -Magistrate’s Court yesterday, said lie had come up from Patea to appear at the Court. The Magistrate replied that it would have been better if defendant had given the cost of the journey to his wife and children. The Magistrate further stated that defendant would not be given another chance, and it he failed to pay £2 5s every fourteen days he would have to go to prison and serve three months hard labor.

During the hearing of a case at the Magistrate’s Court yesterday, in which a young man was charged with throwing stones in the township of Douglas, the Magistrate asked defendant how old he was and received a reply that he was twenty years of age. The Magistrate said he would be better employed throwing stones at Germans! Defendant’s counsel stated that his client had only on© eye, and to this the Magistrate replied “He could, at any rate, take a onesided view of things!” Counsel then explained that the case was the outcome of parochial feeling in the district. The Magistrate said he would hot have Germans doing what they should not. do, but ou the other hand, ho would not’have Germans ill-treat-ed.

In the- House of Representatives on Thursday afternoon, the Prime Minister announced that he had received a communication from Mr Charles Holdsworth in respect to the donation of the Union S.S. Company of the money necessary to provide an aeroplane. He suggested that the machine should be named the “Maori.” Mr Massey expressed appreciation of the spirit and patriotism of the company in making this donation. The suggested name was an appropriate one, and lie hoped the aeroplane would be as successful in the air as the New Zealand had been on the sea. Mr Payne; “ ‘Transport scandal’ would be a good name.” Mr Massey: “The bon. gentleman knows all about scandals.” Mr J. Vigor Brown: “Follow it with another from the Government and call it, the ‘Pakeha.’ ” Mr Massey; “That is not a had suggestion.”

The Midhirst Red Cross Society have received a letter from Mrs Henderson, Midhirst’s representative in Egypt, thanking them for the Christmas hamper which was forwarded by the Society. The writer states that everything was in good order, and was much appreciated by our boys at the front. The following list of articles are being sent by the Society to the Lady Liverpool Fund:— Six pyjamas, 27 flannel shirts, 40 pairs socks, G pairs bed-socks, 6 cakes soap, G note books, ‘2 writing pads, i-dozen pencils, G slings, 6 bags, 4 face-cloths, cakes, chocolates and cigarettes; also the proceeds of ill’s Blanchard’s afternoon, jam, cocoa, milk, shaving soap, cigarettes, 7 packets of tobacco, G tins tobacco, lib ping tobacco, pipes, chocolate, bovril, meat extract, writing pads, pencils, soldiers companion, 5 handkerchiefs, G pairs socks. The above Society wishes to thank Mrs J. Shotter for a donation of 6s 6d,_ also Mrs Geo. Ferguson for a similar amount.

A remit that was met with unanimous approval ol delegates at Thursday's meeting of the Taranaki Provincial Farmers’ Union was one proposing that no enemy alien of birth or blood should be eligible to acquire the freehold of laud in the Dominion. Tho Eltham Argus reports that the President of the conference (Mr Dunn) in moving the remit, said that as the young men of the country were going away to fight, their holdings were being taken up by foreigners. He referred to the Swiss living in this district, who were taking the farms of those who had gone to the front, acquiring the freehold, and were getting the rights of the land. This meant that when the soldiers came back there would be no place for them and they would have to go back to the hackbiocks. These foreigners were making money hand over fist. They were sending money out of the country to their native land, and when they heard of a German success they had a jubilation. Mr Dunn went on to say that he had framed this remit and was supported by petitions from the British residents in the district. These petitions were signed by IS3 persons. He felt sure that the remit would lie supported from one end of the Dominion to the other. Mr Burke

raid he had had some experience with these people. Ho had been canvassing for subscriptions for the Wounded Soldiers Fund and all the support he* got from them was a promise of a don a thm of one guinea— a promise that had yet to he redeemed. Yet these were the very men who were sheltering beneath the British flag and wore getting stall high prices for their produce. It was not fair, and something should be clone. He sugigested th - 1 an extra tax might be of some use. The remit was carried without any further discussion, and amid many expressions of approval*