NEWS AND NOTES

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 151, 1 March 1915, Page 2

NEWS AND NOTES

On March Bth next, a cm-ereuoe of unions and Labour bodies in Wellington will meet to draft a constitution and elect an ,'exechtive committee to control the local branch of the Workers' Educational Association.

Among the latest acquisitions at. the Wellington Zoo is a hybrid, between the weka and tfea ordinary domestic fowl. This cross is extremely rare. The reserves committee lias also decided to obtain a pair of sac-ed Indian zebus from the Sydney zoo, instead of ihe flamingoes previously decided upon.

If there was a tax on land and incomes it would hit everybody (said a speaker at a Wanganui patriotic meeting I know the case of a man with £40,000, and neither chick nor child. He is pretty miserablje, too. (Laughter). lasked him for £5 for the Belgian Fund. It got down fc 2s 6d, and I could not even get that much. How are we going to get at a man like that? I think that th'e Mayor must be pretty sick of trying to draw m.mey out of "stones."

Mr W. H. Ferris, Government fibre expert, visited Raetihi last Friday to examine samples of textile flax possessed by Mr Fish. He placed a value on the samples which places their commercial possibilities beyond doubt and it is understood that the result of this mission will be that the Premier will call upon the inventor (Mr S. Brown) to witness a demonstration of the secret process. Should this eventuate, the Government will probably conclude negotiations for the purchase of the process.

Mr E. Short has given permission, for the holding of the usual school camp at Parorangi in the fortnight eommjancnig March 15. In addition to the secondary pupils; two pupils each from Ohakune and Raetihi schools will also attend., Another tribute to the excellence of the work at th'ese camps is the fact that the offkp-r 'in cfiafge pf agriculture fyi a southern education district is anxious to be allowed to participate in the camp work. Messrs O. A. Banner, J. Grant, and J. Bull will be the instructors in charge.