LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 233, 23 June 1915, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

About SO Sydney hockey men have enlisted, and clubs are still losing men who liave answered their country's eall.

A heavy fall of snow was experienced at Gore on Friday, alternated with frost. There were three inches of snow-,on the ground in the morning;. Ai one tf 'clock snow fell again.

Mrs. A. L. Arrowsmith acknowledges, with'thanks, a parcel of babies' gowns from M«s. A. E. Wakeman, on behalf of the Piunket Society. Also, a parce! of children's clothing from Miss Gilbert, on 'behalf of the Belgian Relief Fund.

It was-at a vaudeville entertainment in Melbourne on a recent Sunday night. Tiifi volatile suddenly ceased bis frivolities with his partner, ana pdissed to a man in a front seat in the stalls. "Hush!'" he said. "There is a man asleep.'' The patron opened his eyes. He flushed and half arose. "Asleep!" he answered with a loud grow'L "Asleep? It's rotten enough to mate **e wish I was dead." Then he sat <!?owa. It is net always wise for the comedifiw to get ftoo gay with his victims.

I A scathing report on t&e want of inI tcrcst and cawl+asness of many of the young teachers 'f» connection with, the Saturday classes ♦ras received at last week's meeting of the Wanagnui Education Board, and #enuv fnpeetor Strong was instructed -to* tak s e-steps to remedy \ the existing state M a#al.f3.. A bundle, of -psaays by teachers on. :rhc tabl^'; >a.nai pronoHn.eeVl, fcts<j«r A typical ,^-v .carelessness was eho^;tij -ieb a^^teaeiiiw-wrote iscommanding the mo in pot: tioa pf iVfi British fleet when in guarding thtf cntranee <u th'e Kiol Canal." •■■;

The Council of the New Zealand Golf Association has decided, owing to tac war, that the New Zealand golf championship, which is set down to be played at Napier from September Cth to the 11th, will be abandoned.

Mr, Tau Henare, member for the Northern Maori District, has very

quietly settled the question of which party he intends to support during the next session of Parliament. He has marked his seat on the Government benches next to Mr. \Y H. Field, the member for Otaki,

One of the imported articles of commerce likely to be hit severely in the near future by the war is ladies' gloves. France has been a large manufacturer of these in the past and with supplies largely cut off from that source it s expected that there will be a shortage ,in the local markets.

The chairman of the Bank or New Zealand stated at the anual meeting in Wellington that the directors had given a total of £3,050 direct to the war relief funds. The money remitted to London by various Telief organisations had been sent through the bank free of exchange, this representing a total ef £I,BOO. Half pay allowed to bank officers at the front amounted to a further £7,500 per -year.

"If something is not done, and done soon, the farmers of New Zealand will, during this coming season, simply be pouring their milk into the creeks, because there will be use for it," said Mr. Eobert Burns, chairman of ttve Auckland Chamber of Commerce, In reference to the shortage of insulatet? shipping space. "The freezing store? are full already, and the position facing the dairy farmer will be that he will have no storage accommodation and no shipping facilites." In regard to the refusal of the Education Department to state a case for decision of the Supreme Court in regard to deduction from teachers' salaries on the ground that the Crown Law Officer upheld the Department, the wanganui Board's solicitors have been Instructed to sue for the money in question. In the- instances referred to the Department had reduced the salaries of several teachers where the attendance at their schools had fallen, contending that although the Act debarred such reductions, it did not come into force until January 1, 1915, while the reduction in attendance hod taken place before that date.

A meeting of the Military Ball Committee was hold at the Fire Brig-acre Hall last night, when the final arrangements for the ball to-morrow (Thursday) evening were discusesd. The secretary (Mr. A. (t. Rogers) reporter that there were a number of tickets in outside districts, and it is desired that these should be returned if not sold. Arrangements are being made f(.v effectively decorating the stags and also to provide accommodation for Crozier's (Marton) Orchestra. If favoured wth a fme night there is every indication that the ball will be a great success. The committee is doing everything possible to ensure the comfort and enjoyment of patrons. "Financial ease is apparent," .said the chairman of directors of the Ban* of New Zealand to a recent meeting of shareholders in Wellington, "but it is an ease which, like the calm before the storm, maj r presage strain and stress later on. The accumulations in the hands of the banks are undoubtedly due to apprehension with regard to the future, and a desire on the part of the depositors to be prepared for possible eventualities. • This is clear from the fact that the increase in deposits arc principally in the non-interest bearing class, i.e., the current accounts. This fs ■not an encouraging feature, because it indicates, to some extent, commercial and industrial inactivity. Buildings, except in the way of Government undertakings, is largely at a standstill, and investors arc disinclined to enter into commitments.