The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 14 September 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which ia ineorporatad The Tab hape Post uni Wnimarim* News.) TUESDAY, -SEPTEMEB 14, 1915.

The Tailiape Co.op. Dairy Company notify that the cream brake will run to the Taihapc depot on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. .

A social is to be held, in the Railway Social. Hall in aid of Miss Carpenter, the Bed .Cross Candidate for the Queenship of the Carnival, on Friday evening, at which refreshments wall be provided.

At a meeting of representatives of the Southland Dairy Companies, from which the Press was excluded, the following motion, was passed: 1 ‘That the Government be recommended to commandeer 20 per cent, of the output of New Zealand cheese pro rata from every factory making cheese, at 7d per pound, at the grading store.”

At Taumarunui on Friday, “Paddy” Pullen, Lester Hunter, Michael O ’Brien, John Holmes, and Edward King were each fined £SO and costs for sly-grog selling. John Henaerson was fined £lO and costs for introducing liquor into a kainga. A milkman was fined £5 for watering milk.

A private in one of the, reinforcements tells of his; experience at Tronthhm. He was an old. soldier from the Old Land, and know something about route marches. When on .the march one day he was noticed by .the commander, who asked hjm if he had had previous experience. “Yes, sir,’’was the answer. “ Well, then, fall out and step in front to lead the men.” This he; did,and,of course, proud of his post, began to step out in fine style. After going some distance he could hoar his. comrades complaining one to another, “Making it hot, isn’t-he?’ ’- However, he kept going, but 'When lid got back to camp, and he puts it, Ire got the biggest hiding ever he got. “No; I don’t, want to make the pace any more,” says he, “it’s not worth it.” The analyst sat in his sanctum alone, f When his staff had gone home for f the night. I And soliloquised thus, in a critical tone, i As he held a retort vo tho light|“Yes! Yes! I confess, ’tis compound- | ed with skill, J Its components are potent and pure; 1 If thro ’ chill I fall ill, I most certainly 1 will | Take Woods' Great Peppermint Care.”