LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 205, 11 May 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A smart waitress is required for the Federal Coffee Palace, Taihape.

A man named Matthew Livingstone, a bookmaker, was fined £25 yesterday for street betting in Wellington.

Mr. Justice Hosking, at Auckland, yesterday, declined the application of Mr. M. W. Hill, for an inquiry as to the validity of his committal to a mental hospital.

Mr. E. W. Smith, M.P., has made representations to have a portion of the Pukemana Eoad regraded "between Messrs. Jurgen's and Baird and Mcintosh's properties. If this is carried out it will give access to an educational reserve of som? 400 acres or more.

All traces of the missing policeman, Donald Shaw, appear to be lost. Shaw was last seen during the interval of a Napier picture theatre, when he went out for a few moments and never returned. The country has been searched high and low for miles, but without avail. Constable Hugh Shaw, brother of the missing man, was one of tiie search party.

The criminal sessions at the Wellington Court opened yesterday before the Chief Justice (Sir. Robert Stout). In his charge to the Grand Jury, his Honour said that altogether there were 13 prisoners; none of the charges were serious, except three cases of interference with young children. It was extraordinary that such dases took place continually in the community.

Considerable opposition to the Wanganui Hospital Board's levy for 1015 was shown at the Fangitikei County Council meeting on Saturday, thoigh, in the coarse of discussion it was shown that Bangitikei valuations had greatly increased. It wart resolved to obtain the balance-sheets of other Hospital Boards for the purpose of co,ra-

in the last great murdering venture of the Germans, Mr. A. W. Gardner,'of Tailiape, loses a brother. Mr. Gardner's brother, witli his'wife and two boys, were on the Lusitania when she was torpedoed by one or more German submarines, and while the two children were saved both * parents w r ent down w : th the vessel. Mr. Gardner's many friends will sympathise with him in a bereavement caused by such brutal methods.

The Eangitikei County Council has resolved on asking the Government to provide that all level railway crossings "be nounded by picket or other open fences not more than 3t 9in high, for four chains on each side of the crossing and to disallow all high iron or cljseboarded fences or live hedges. The resolution is to be forwarded to other County Councils, and to the Counties Association, with a request for support.

A point for good housewives. Always use SHAELAND'S Baking Powder. Costs least; goes farthest: gives best results.

RHEXJMATISM. ITS CAUSE ANR CUKE. Eheumatism is a most painful disease. Many are bent and physically disabled by the torture it. inflicts. The •disease may settle in the large muscles iof the back, neck or thigh; or in .the jeints of the arms or leg*,. The pain may dart from one muscle to another, and may be constant or occasional. B.'t. all are produced by the same cause, ex-1 ct'ss uric, acid in the blood. RHEUT.iGT is the best, the only sutc remedy. It neutralises and drives out the poisonous acid, refljfeves the pain, removes the jewelling. otuv;*,-* a speedy and perma-I nenf euro. Fno#» all chemists and I Store:: at 2/6 rend 4-/$ a bottle. j

A reward is offered for the return of a pearl drop attached to small gold chain.

At Bertenshaw's Mart an Edison gramophono, hammerless d.b.b.l. gun, horse and cow covers, etc., are advertised for sale.

Sir Joseph Ward has accepted the position of colonel of the second regiment of the National Eeserve.

The Rangitikei County Council on Saturday decided to ask the Government to allocate subsidies on rates on a more equitable basis.

The New York Tribune says that the sinking the Lusitania was a colossal crime, staining the reputation of its perpetrators for over. A Avoodwork class will be commenced at the Taihapo Technical School on Thursday, 13th May, at 7 p.m. The class will be in charge of Mr. Stephenson, the Education Board's woodwork instructor. Mr. Stephenson has had ar. extensive experience in conducting techmcal classes, and intending stud'ets may be certain of a satisfactory course of instruction in this subject.

The various branches of the Plunket Nurse Society |have'been asked to apply for the Government subsidy by the end of September. The -local branch has resolved to commence collecting for donations and subscriptions at once. The following subscriptions are acknowledged as having been paid during April: Mesdames Hair, Murray, Welch, Handle and Holder Subscriptions are now due and will be received by tihe Nurse, the local secretary, or any member of the committee.

A resolution by the Southland County Council, dealing with motor traffic, is being much discussed. The Council favoured a tax on vehicles and considered the only equitable way was through placing a tax on tyres. The Council was also of opinion that the Government should collect the tax and distribute it pro rata between the local bodies, County Councils and Eoaor Boards to receive a larger share than Borough Councils. The Pohangina Council received the letter, having dealt with the matter previously when it supported a tax.

Cr. P. E. H. Bricc was in a critical mood at the Eaugitikei County Council table on Saturday, and when the estimates for the year were under the consideration of the Council, he criticised the old Council for allegedly leaving some £2,900 behind on the general account, whilst they also left further expenditure to be met by the new Council to the extent of some £OOO, along with the additional levy of £IOOO made by the Hospital Board. This was serious to the ratepayers he represented, for it meant that for'them their rates would be increased from nine-six-teenths of one penny in the pound, to three-farthings. All the lower portion of the riding was affected. He blamecl die old Council in that they failed to strike a .higher rate last year instead of imposing upon the new Council the diius of an increased rate.

In view of the complaint voiced at tli 3 Borough Council meeting th e other evening about the Borough's increased contribution to hospital and charitable aid charges, the follov/ing from tiie annual report of the Wanganui Hospital and Charitable Aid Board's 1914 report should prove o;

interest: Few, it any, Hospital Boards in the Dominion have been so fortunate

In the enjoyment of bequests as thv ,vaiiganui Board. ih e property occu ::ied by the three inbtitnlicns under he Board's control has eosi in the "-"i-n of £40.000. but with the exception of a relatively small sum iL

'?c]j cf the property lias been acquired throuTh bequests and subsidies' (hereon. This good fortune has enabled the Board to carry on its work

vLli'-ut imposing any special assessment for capital expenditure; consequently its levies on contributing bodies have been about 45 per cent, below tfhe mean or other Boards in the same group. So that unless thre is a return of the Board's good fortune in the matter of bequests, local bodies must anticipate a substantial increase in future assessments, as capital expenditure a substantial item, recurring annually. On a population basis, the Board's assessment for 1914-15 was 3s 8d per capita; the mean for the dominion was 5s 105 d