LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 184, 13 April 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. F. T. Moore, of Johnsonville, in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court: “All little men are viciousl'**

•Good progress has been made with papa-burning on Mangaweka-Te Kapua road, in the Rangitikei County, and one and a quarter miles have now been completed.

Very severe frosts that have been experienced during the last few nights have had a marked effect on the young grass that has been coming away well since the rains a few weeks ago.

The Pahiatua County Council has decided to vote £25 monthly till further notice for the Belgian Relief Fund, and also voted £1 monthly to permanent surfacemen in lieu of increase in wages applied for. Mr, Massey denies the rumour current that either the Hon. H. D. Bell or Mr. F. M. B. Fisher may succeed the Hon. Thos. Mackenzie as High Commissioner.

An unusual charge that of failing to have their name painted on their cart, was brought against a firm in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court last week. Defendants were convicted and ordered to pay costs, 7/The Department of Agriculture has written to the Rangitikei County Council stating that the application for a meat slaughtering license by the Otaihnp.g Farmers’ Meat and Produce Company will be dealt with when the ■building is erected. At the Rangitikei County Council meeting the Receiver of Land Revenue advised payment of £133 8/1 of hypo* thecated thirds. The Public Works Department advised payment of grants: Makopua, £l7O 18/-; Omatane,*£6s and £l5O. Authority for grant £2OO Tahoe Road was forwarded.

A Waikato farmer in-December sent in an estimate of the probable yield of his oat crop to the Agricultural Department at 35 bushels per acre. The farmer completed his harvesting about 10 days ago, and his threshing on Friday last. The area of 70 acres yielded within a few pounds of 70 bushels to the acre.

Figures compiled by the Department of Labour make it clear that the supply of domestic labour offering in New Zealand is not nearly equal to the demand. In February, employers made 670 applications to the Department for women assistants, and the number of workers offering was only 378. Employment was found for nearly all of these workers.

,Mr W. H. Atack, manager of the Press Association, states that the extract from Captain Bean’s letter regarding the arrival of the Maoris In Egypt and other New Zealand troops, ■which was published in Australia a week earlier, was hung up by the censorship for a week. It is difficult to see ■ why, as the Australian press was allowed to publish it, but it has often happened that censors have refused, to pass for New Zealand, or have kept back for. days, items to which no objection was found in Australia.

A London paper records three cases of eviction of soldiers’ wives. They form part of a black list seen from week to week. In a report of one case the paper says:—A soldier’s wife, Mrs. Atwood, whose husband is fighting in France, was evicted from the lodge at Goddington Park, the residence of G. Ashley Dodd, Esq., J.P., and landowner Apparently the lady of the manor was dissatisfied with the way in which Mrs. Atwood opened and closed the lodge gates, and the result was an eviction order. In drenching rain the soldier’s wife, with her two little children, -was turned out on the road, some kindly neighbour storing a few sticks of furniture. Wheeling a perambulator, and with bitterness in her heart, Mrs, Atwood and her children trudged into Ashford, where she found lodging for the night.

It was the steamer Hesperus That sailed the wintry sea, But the skipper bold had an awful cold And was sad as sad could be. But his daughter fair, with the golden hair, Said, “Father, no words could be truer, Ho cure on earth has half the worth Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure.”

the cigar and cigarette industry in Denmark by prohibiting the export to the country of tobacco from Bremen.

■ The price of butter in Wellington wag yesterday advanced another penny a pound, Jftxst grade & nowselling at 1/5 and second grad® at t/4. The new dnematograph tor the' Town Hall Pictures, which has been delayed In transit, arrived yesterday, and has now been installed and tested. It is claimed to he on© of the best machines extant, and it will be used in the production of "Judith ttf Bethulia® to-morrow night

"An earnest Christian girl, who will be a pinch of the ‘Bolt of the Earth* wherever she goes, and will help to make it 'God’s own country 4 indeed/* was one of the recommendations sent in to the Emigration Department of the New Zealand Government concerning an applicant for domestic service iha "God’s own country.** A party of about 120 girte who bar* been thrown out of work owing to the war left London recently for Australia, where they are to try their fortunes as domestic servants. They represent the first contingent of yaung women selected by the Queen's Work tor Women Fund for emigration.

A cprrespond ! eat of tih® TAUUtiyuaui Press says that diming a tawr through the valley most of si« young getiljerp expressed & strong declr® to go to th® front One young matt went go far as to say that the ghooid tem. porarily take oyer the fa&rni®, appoint a manager over every ten or dozen, and release the present fed? military duty. In this isstte Mr McCormick, of (ha Taihape Boot makes a most extrooxdmary offer. He adverUses that no charge will be made for repairing boots ©old by Mm when the repairs do not exceed' a sfeEling, and where they are orcr .that amount a discount .of fifty per cent will be allowed A reduction Is at present being made on boys’ and girls’ school boots and also oh youths, strong boots, despitje the extra cost of leather on account of the war

At the inquest on the body of the late Mr, Eookel, schoolmaster, of Eaetihi, a verdict was .returned that death resulted from exhaustion, ■ and was ao> celerated by injuries to the Head accidentally received in Ms descent over the frozen snow, A rider was added to the effect that the descent in question was taken against the expressed advice of the leader of the party. The jury desired that recognition. be placed on record of the attention bestowed an the deceased by his companions at all stages of their journey.

According to the report submitted on Saturday by Mr. S. Mair, engineer to the Eangitikei County Council, some years ago Messrs. Gibbs and Co., sawmillers, laid sawdust on Hula Street, Utiku, to enable them to cart timber from, their mill to the railway. As this street has now been gravelled, he has requested the sawmillers to remove the sawdust, but they refuse to do so. Mr. Mair asked, and was given, instructions in ; the matter, as his work, he stated, was held up pending the sawdust being removed.

A gentleman called at an area group office on Friday and asked the sergeantmajor kindly to supply him with a registration form, as he desired to enlist for service. The officer became interested, and elicited from the applicant that he was desirous of going to the seat of war as he had a score to wipa off with the enemy. Since the commencement of the war he had lost several of bis family, including two of his sisters, through acts of the Germans, and he considered it his duty to uphold the honour of the family. The gentleman was enrolled.

The following resolution, which explains itself, was unanimously carried by the Rangitikei County on Saturday* —"That owing to the higher cost of living through the war, the whole-of the permanent surfaceman in the employ of the Council receive an extra allowance of £1 per month during the continuance of the w'ar. ” Owning to the increased price of horse feed, cte., it was further resolved that an increase of five shillings per day be allowed Mr. R. F Bell for his team of horses working on the grader, the increased allowance to date from the Ist inst.

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