The Taihape Daily Times MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 9 August 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times

MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 1915. LOCAL AND GENERAL

\KD WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

fWidi which i* incorporated Tho Tai tape Post una ‘Wn.imarino News.)

Westland, with a population of 15,000, has sent 1,000 men to the front. The daily bulletin from military hospitals shows that the total number of cases of sickness on Saturday was 354, the bulk of which are convalescent.

The Vossisehe Zeitung says: If ever anything could foreshadow coming debacle it would be the daily scenes of disorder in the English Parliament when a fresh British defeat at the Dardanelles or the hopelessness of the situation in Belgium comes up for discussion. A German newspaper’s view of Britain’s economic position:—‘‘Not only the political but also the economic difficulties of England are growing daily. Meat is •,forthcoming only in constantly diminishing- quantities from Australia, butchers are putting up their shutters, and before long carnivorous John Bull will have been transferred into a grassdevouring Nebuchadnezzar. • ’

The health of the men in the Maori training camp at Narrow Neck, near Auckland, is reported to remain satisfactory. The discovery of some eases of measles caused strict precautionary measures to be taken. ; T p to Friday week ten cases had been reported. Another was discovered on Sunday and sent to the district hospital. One ease has been discharged {torn the hospital. Some forty ’men, who had been in contact with the earliest cases, were isolaI tod, but as the disease has nqt attacked theta, the restrictions have been removed,..- Th^.&n'wweather of tte past, week has bad a beneficial effect on the- general health and spirits of the men, . bairtlwliipa. :;.Eray “JTAZOL’Vto protect it against coughs '** NA2SQL ' * is a boon to old and young. *, ’ *•' fat v, • 0,,*. 9

Owing to a severe attack of rheum a tism. Mr. W. Gregory has had to apolo gisc to his customers for the non-deliv-ery of milk this morning.

The annual meeting cr the Wanga nni Education Hoard and the eloetior of chairman will bo held on W eunes day, August IS.

The management of the Ruakura farm of instruction has been taken over by Mr. T. W. Lonsdale, who has held the position cf manager of the Monmahaki experimental farm dm mg the last few years.

“That the Government be urged to institute a system of cheap week-end railway fares throughout New Zealand as soon as circumstances permit,” is the text of a resolution passed by the Chambers of Commerce Conference as the outcome of a remit from Napier.

The raying results up to the 17th week of the ,181,5-1(5 New Zealand egglaying competition at Christchurch show that the Black Orpington breed is again the leading pen, witii a total of .57(1 eggs. This pen of six hens last week laid 35 eggs, a splendid winter performance.

The annual turnover of the National Dairy Association is ■ £300,000. It would, according to the secretary (Mr. >l. G. Hark ness) be considerably more than that if the business supervised for dairy factories outside of the association were included in the total. The export of dairy produce lias now reached a total of about £5,000,000.

There has been upwards of a 50 per cent rise in the pric e of iron, to say nothing- }of freights, and local blacksmiths have only increased their prices for horse-shoeing by Cd per set. They do not propose to further increase this price, but they notify that an additional charge of sixpence will have to be made for booking on and after Monday next

Mr. L. M. Tsitt, M.P., has written 'ln the Prime Minister, protesting against the proposal of the Defence Department immediately to transfer 1,0 00 men to Trcntham on the ground that it anticipates and possibly ignores the findings of the Commission, and that it incurs grave risks to the health of the men and subjects their friends to unnecessary anxiety. Orders have been issued for all the men from the Manawatu district for the Eighth Reinforcements to go into camp at Troath am. •

“All hands, are wearing ' short pants,’’ remarks Lieutenant Dun net in a letter from the Dardanelles to his family at Christchurch,":dated .Tune 4.

“inul I can tel? yon there is a very marked difference in our attire to what it was when we were being paraded fm •inspection in Egypt. There!,' are no frills or shiny boots to be seen now.” Lieutenant Dnnnet expresses this wish in his final letter: “A hot bath would go all right, and after: the bath to Oirn in for a good sleep between sheets, then porridge aml cream for weak fast, dove! that would go well.”

The annual report of tli 0 Labour Department states that if May last '• great deal ct unemployment was ■vert by providing- work on the rail--Ivs and roue’s. With the advent of ■'■ring, n *v.(. ' f,h ft condition of hmu's ■ had i'h T ‘roved wonderfully Dov«ril trades, notably the leather Tades. were kept exceptionally busy through t-htr* dem-uius of the reinbirooments: and, indeeu, all skilled trades had been kept steadily busy since October last. For the. primary industries there: had been a particularly busy season, and labour has been difficult to find at times. Owing to the number of men from the country who had .gone to the front, the position was one calling for early action to ensure that the crops would be garnered without undue delay.

An English, writer speaks of the ‘’shamefaced ness” British crowd's feef when the soldiers go by, and their inability to give a cheer. ‘The other day in Waterloo Station (he says) I saw a company of Guardsmen going off. A few relatives had gathered at th e entrance of the platform, and a little crowd was held up as the company marched in. An attempt was made to give a cheeir, but it died away, and people stood with their hats off watching them- fils past. The soldiers felt egually awkward, and at last they began to shout, to the crowd, “Good Luck-” and “Good luck to all!” They—-the men going to the mud and fire, and death on the bloody fields of Flanders wished us good luck as they left us >n secure and comfortable England! Surely, the veriest slacker would have felt that!”

A now tablet exchange device lias been successfully tried at Oban station, under the direction of Mr. Wynne, chief signal and electrical engineer of the Government Railways (reports the New Zealand Railway Review.) The new machine does not,swing round rapidly as the ordinary tablet exchange does, with consequent risks to bystander*, but the bar which holds the tablet Sinks slowly on; Rs yemevOfl, 'wh-iTc; the other-arm- points straight ujrfparx!. Tboinventor of this simpifc and; - effective . m aeh in e•. i f?\ Mr.., F rank :Wallis, manager of in Wellington. It ie one of the several inventions >yhiph ,-this -geutleman has contributed to.the New Zealand Railways. '• i-y Jr' •

An instance of the worry and anxiety

to parents of troops at the front as to the safety cr otherwise of their sons, has just been recorded in Taihape. Mr Niven, of whose son has been lost sight of for some time past, has .received a cable fromthe. authorities stating that his sou has arrived safely in London. After weeks of anxiety this information was received gladly.

Warsaw has a. population of 574.000. It lias been urged that Germany must be short of copper, but those who argue on this head forget, or never knew, that Germany produces enough copper from her own mines to provide for the wastage in war material. Her output is something like 2,000 tons per annum, and this, taking into consideration that copper is heavily alloyed In the manufacture ■of war material, moans probably that 50,000 tons of metal is available, which would be more than snilicient for even the Kaiser's gunners.

The Otago Daily Times publishes the following comparison of the prices for the produce lines enumerated. The first set of figures is axiplied to 19.14, and the second set to 1915: Wheat 3/7 to 3/1.1, (5/8 to 0/10; oats 2/1, 4/1 to 4/2; chafT £3 5/, £7 5/; potatoes £4 5/, £0 10/ to £7; onions £5 10/, £0; flour £lO .10/, £10; bran £4 5/, £8 15/; pollard, £0 9/10; pearl barley £l4, £22 10/; oatmeal £l2 10/, £23. Respecting the quotation of flour at £.lO, a note is added to the effect that flour lias been reduced 30/ per ton within the last month.

The German anniversary of the cb

deration of war anticipated ours by a few days. Apparently the German “celebrations ” took the form of reading a high-sounding manifesto issued by the Kaiser —at least, that is the only thing of which tidings have reached this part of the world. The War Lord’s “apoligia” for the sad plight ! of his country, seems to have boon a really powerful and impressive document, tinged with melancholy and instinct with genuine piety. It presents the Kaiser in the diameter of preacher, and almost makes one believe in the theory of “dual personality.” It is not the raging Hun wo speaks, calling upon his soldiers to exercise all the diabolic acts of cruel-and inhuman atrocity; it is the Christian monarch, meek and subdued, lamenting the evil that wicked foes have brought upon his people. That these two personalities may exist in one individual is well-nigh incredible.

Soldiers’ sermons ara frequently unconventional, but they are always interesting from the human point of view On a recent Sunday at Home a blushing “Tommy” was “called upon” to “say a few words” in a. Y.M.C.A. hut at Aldershot. He began: “Fellow-friends, I getter say a, few words. Whottor say I dunno. Frir vf'iy? Hdif no rlperscherer by Professing, but a miserable sinner like 'he rest of you here ” At this 'mint th-. nrot.pr’s host friend intorv!’r>ed hy h'swing out in a stentorian hi. ;;T| “Thez an officer present, Tim.” Hastily the speaker addressed . v-». effico", "Pig *mrdnn., sir; no ofn “V"t at all.” r.e- ---— n r ''Q~ •’d'nislv. “I ?m T"-*»tiUc Ho or"' I ’’ re-->--prnd h.ls cg’.f-pnp,session. “Course v’nre. sir.” ho n-sentyd genially, “and "-oP we know it’ ’aring’ all bin on late jewty except my interruptin’ friend, which is ignorant of -he trewth.” And the address continued. Last year the Labour Department advanced £.11,655 to workers for railway fares, and a sum of £9,949 was repaid. There was an increase of 468 in the number of factories registered compared with the previous year, according to the annual! report of the Labour Department. The number of workers hail not increased in usual proportion, the advance totalling only 1,295. The increase in the number cf ] factories was, no doubt, partly due to the growing practice of some of the larger clothing factories and drapery had not been obtainable, of giving out work. There were many houses registered as “workrooms,” where a woman, alone or perhaps with her daughter, did shirt-marking, trouser machining, etc. In Auckland there were 1.761 factories, in Wellington 1.114, Christchurch 1,282, and Dunedin 1.115. The proportion of accidents in factories to the number employed was 16.88 per thousand.

The personnel of the local police force is to be slightly altered this week. Constable B. J. MacDoniteli has received notice of his transfer to Peiid'n.sr, and will probably leave for his new position to-morrow. Constable i •Mac Donnell who has been stationed at Taihape for the past 2) years has always proved himself a capable and obliging officer, and although his departure is to bo regrettpd, h» can. rest assured that be takes with him the best’ v/lshes .the; people of Taihape for his: future success atsuccessor a.t, Taihapa. CnnkjaWeNorris, of Palmerston North. >

\.At the; Magistrates Coorf ios morafug, before Mr A. H* Haestifea, S-.M., three first offender* wu ( reb caay»fct6d and fined 'of, the amount pf'their’ bail, which they -iioP’fi®pearaace at the Court;