LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 18 September 1915, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Police-Superintendent John Ellison, of Wellington, will retire on superannuation at the end of the present month.

f Job purchasi© of novelties in Ladies’ Neckwear, 6d, 9d, 1/-, to 3/3; Frilled Pillow Slips 1/6 pair; Duchess Sets 1/-, 1/6; Tray Cloths, hemstitched borders 1/- each. At Collinson and Gifford’s Ltd. Sale. See window display.

At the annual meeting of the Otaihape Meat and Produce Company, Ltd., last Monday, Messrs. Clark and Menzies, Wellington, and Mr. E. B. Jennings, Taihape, were elected auditors.

At a meeting of the Otago Education Board it was decided to emphatically endorse the resolution passed by the School Committees’ Association calling the attention of the Minister to displays of moving pictures depicting scenes of burglary, outrage, and highway robbery, and urging stricter censorship over such films.

The Eongotca Dairy Company paid out an average of 12.52 d per lb for butter-fat last season, and intends to make a final payment, which will bring the payment to 1/1, and also pay 6 per cent, on paid-up capital, besides putting aside a considerable sum for contingencies, . ..

An old resident, a naturalised German, was refused the old-age pension at Friday’s Court (says the Stratford correspondent of the Taranaki Herald). His difficulty is that he has property in Berlin. For all practical purposes just now it might as well be in the mooa, but it constitutes a fatal bar to the pension.

The installation of a police constable and the building of a police station at Maticre, says the the Press, has had the effect of improving the tone of the township and eliminating from it those undesirables, who, when the city centres can no longer contain them, get pushed back to places such as these, to make themselves a nuisance to the whole district.

Special train arangemeats for the Wanganui races, which take .place on Thursday and Saturday of next week, are published in our advertising columns. As there ar e a great many people likely to travel from Taihape on the occasion, it would be wise on their part to ; take particular note of the information given. Holiday excursion tickets will be issued to Wanganui from Taihape and intermediate stations by the train that leaves Taihape at five, minutes past six in the morning, on the 423rd and 25th September, and these tickets are available for return until September 27th, but are not available for ret uni by mail and express trains.

Share in the “Desert Hold ’’ Ten groat prize distribution. Drink “Desert Gold’’ always and save tho “Camels '’ off tho packets.

Monday next is the last discount day in connection with electric light accounts.

The Ladies’ Committee for “Our Boys’” Candidate will meet in the Supper Room, Town Hall, on Monday evening at 8 o’clock.

The Royal Society (Sydney) ha® offered its services to the Government in connection with the manufacture of munitions and other scientific matters arising out of the war. The official estimate of Canada’s exportable surplus of wheat is two hundred million bushels. The Minister for Defence said recently that he thought the best ages for recruits were from 20 to 40. He did not favour recruits under 20 being taken. In reply to Dr. Thacker, the Minister said the uniforms of soldiers ] returning from Egypt were supplied by the British Ordnance Department. ‘‘New Zealand is making munitions of war that are as big a factor in the success of the army as any others. These munitions take the form of food and clothing, which are as essential as shot and shell,” said Mr. C. M. Luke, president of the Central Chamber of Commerce, Wellington. “We have all been issued the latest type of respirator, and we do look ‘some guy’ in them,” writes Sergeant Reg. Miller, from the Dardanelles. “They come over the head, fit right down over the shoulders and under the shirt, the latter being buttoned over them. They are fitted with a little window to see through.”

“Chambers of Commerce should keep a watchful! eye on all monopolies that tend to exploit the people, and shipping companies should be incl

in the Trusts and Monopolies Act,” was the advice given by Mr. Leigh Hunt at the Wellington Central Chamber of Commerce meeting.

"I am certain,” says Sapper Leo Poff (of the Auckland Lands and Survey Department, and now on active service in Gallipoli), 'Ghat if a tally could be taken of the men who have been connected with the Boy Scouts, and who are in this force, the result would be absolutely surprising. At every turn one meets them, and you might tell the lads from me that they cana’t do better than stick to their game, and pKay it for all it’s worth. The whole programme of training, as I think over it now, is as practical and as valuable as can be.”

Eegulations have been gazetted providing' that ali birds and animals and all skins of birds and animals which have been unlawfully taken, or which have been lawfully seized under the provisions of the Animals Protection Act, shall be forfeited to His Majesty. It is also provided that it shall be the duty of every ranger or other officer who has seized such birds or animals or skins, or into whose possession they have come, to forward Immediate notification thereof to the Minister of Internal Affairs, who shall give such orders for disposal of such birds or animals or skins as he thinks fit.

Information supplied by Mr. Pryor to the Arbitration Court during tjhe hearing of the recent engineers’ dispute as to the reduced output of the individual worker, raises a very serious question, remarked Mr. T. S. Weston, in his address to the Employers’ Federation. A priori arguments adopted by so many economists and humanitarians that shorter hours and improved conditions of labour must inevitably result in better work seem to have proved in practice to bo unsound. Those enthusiasts who have hoped that gradually, with the introduction of machinery and the progress of science, the lot of the individual worker—using that word in its widest sense—will improve, must recognise that some silent but deliberate organisation is at work preventing that loyal co-operation of labour without which, in the ultimate industries as a whole cannot progress.

“Water is more valuable than gold at A»zac, ” remarked a Now Zealand ad who*returned by the Taihiti. “Practically all the drinking water, until quite recently, was brought from Egypt and Malta. Each man’s ration, for all purposes, is limited to a gallon a day. One’s parched throat is always craving for a long beer or a tart lemon squash, but those luxuries are just a pleasant memory. Many wells are being dug, but the water is nearly always brackish, except at No, 2 outposition held by the Otago Mounted Rifles. They struck a wjell of cold pure water. A man wlil'l walk two or three miles to this post under fire just for the privilege of filing the waterbottles. At Anzac you arc eternally under fire. A soldier’s feelings may be imagined when a heavy sea piles two or throe fresh water barges on the rocks, ark! ho has to go short of his ration water.”

“Ewery little helps,” provided that little is a drop of “NAZOL. ” When yen’ye a eold in the head inhale r lew whiffs; If the trouble, is in the 'throat, sprinkle aome drops' on a pic*of sugar. Taken e?Vfipr way “NAZDL” otvmrca

At a meeting of the Executive of Mrs. R. W. Smith’s Carnival Committee, held last night, it was decided to hold a Garden Party at Mr, R. W. Smith’s home or? Thursday next. It was also arranged to hold a euchre party on Friday evening; where the latter is to be held will be made known later. A meeting of Mrs. R. ’ W. Smith’s Ladies’ Committee is to bo held on Monday evening.

One of the first large functions in connection with the Queen. CajrmvaJ tv as held in the Town Hall last night,, when a social and dance was organised in aid of the Railway and Civil Service .Candidate (Red Cross). The function was liberally attended, and the bright badges of the various candidates were in great prominence. The committee, with the secretary (Mr Dunbar) had all arrangements well in hand, and the dance passed off very successfully. The Taihape Municipal Brass Band rendered several selections in front of the Town Hail, and Ike dance music was kindly contrio ded by several ladies and gentlemen A generous supper was provided. Tfhe social should be the means of substantially adding to the funds of the Red Cross andidate

Thousands of mothers who have lost sons in the war will find much that is consoling in a letter which Abraham Lincoln wrote to a 'mother whose five sons were killed in the American war: The letter is as ■ follows: “Dear Madam, —I hay© been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adutant-General of Massachusetts that ’yjou are tlhe mother of five sons who have died gloriously in the field of battle. I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming, but I cannot refrain from tendering you the consolation that may be found in tlhi© thanks of th© Republic they died to save. I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the memorv . f tnc loved and lost and t!bi© solemn ] ride that must be yours to hare laid so costfiy a eecrifice upon the altar of Freedom.—Yours very sincerely, A. Lincoln.”