The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 4 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which io incorporated The T&ihape Post *xaa "Waimarinu News.)

_ *•• Notice is given in another column that an examination wlil be hied biy the Plumbers' Board of New Zealand for the purpose of registration under the Plumbers' Registration Act. Applications must be in by the 12th No-

vember. Referring to the granting of "long leave" to soldiers who had already bad sick leave, the Defence Minister stated that a man did not participate in general leave granted to his force if be had visietd his home on sick leave within a month previously. Otherwise he had his leave in the ordinary way. From next Saturday, throughout the Carnival!, the Town Hall will be open every Saturday night as a Cafe Chantant, where there will be music, singing, dancing, and other entertainments. Smoking will be allowed and ample refreshments will be provided. The Cafe Chantant is being conducted in aid o* Miss Whcnuaroa's candidature for the Queenship. According to the annual repdrt of the Wellington Land Agents and Auctioneers' Association, tjhere were on the roll at the close of the year forty town and seventeen country members, with two branch offices. This was somewhat less than in the prevous

''year, three members having been written off, and several others retiring through the depression caused by the war and other circumstnces One new member was elected during the year. A returned soldier says:—"Oiir crack shots use Turkish rifles and am-

munition, which, for sniping, have many advantages. Sergeant-Major Buckley, of the Mancjhestefrs, whose name has appeared in the prize-lists at Bis'.ey en numerous occasions is a great believer in the Turkish rifle, and used it. all the time he was on the Peninsula. It has a lower trajectory, -while the velocity is higlhetr, the bullet . i heavier, and the bore larger than ours. • 1 The bolt action is of polished steel, and not. so liable tc become clogged with 1 sand as our own, and does not require 1 nearly so much oil. The Turkish rifle is point-blank at 400 yards, wjhile the j rifle used by the 'New Zealand infantry 3 is only so at 200 yards, ami the latest >-<• British rifle at about 350 yards." 2TO COLD 13 ''NAZOL" PROOT!

Mr. Cartier is liberating 25,000 trout ova in the Hautapu Eiver. Last weeh lie liberated 9,000 rainbow trout ova.

A free drag will run to the Ruanui Dance from Taihape on Wednesday night. Seats must be applied for at Kellv 's Stables.

There will a general meeting of the Ladies' Committee of "Our Boys' " candidate in the Town Hall supper room to-night, at which it is hoped there will be a full attendance.

The Upper Wangaehu Road Board notifies that the TvJrakina Valley Road will be closed for wheel traffic en Tuesday and Wednesday, sth and 6th October.

Seventy skilled face workers and forty unskilled men are wanted for the Royal Xew Zealand EngineersTunnelling Company, to go into camp at Avondalc at once.

"Dainty fabrics for summer frocks and blouses" is the theme enlarged upon by Messrs H. J. White and Sons, drapers, in a new advertisement. The prices of some of the dainty fabrics mentioned seem to be rather attractive, and are worthy of a look upon from all our lady readers.

So that Taihapo residents may attend the Patriotic Concert at Mangaweka on Wednesday night, special train arrangements have been made. The train leaves Taihapo for Mangaweka about four- in the afternoon anc leaves Mangaweka on the return jour-

ney about eleven the same evening,

The care of the nine children affected by the Ramarania murder tragedy, which- occurred nearly two weeks ago, lias caused the police authorities no little concern. The two youngest were taken charge of by the Door of Hope, and the four next in years are now in the care of Adjutant* Gordon at the Salvation Army Home. The three eldest children have remained .in the Ramarama district with relatives.

Whiic in Sv/iney, Mr Harold Beauchamp heard a good deal of adverse criticism as to theacticn of the'N.S.W. Government in its attempt to regulate the proces of certain commodities, and the losses entailed by its unbusinesslike methods. On the purchase and sale of butter, eaten hay, etc., it is expected that there will be a loss to the State of no less than £300,000. Butter imported from America was so inferior in quality that Australians would have none of it, and it had been reshipped to London for sale on behalf of the State.

In the ccu'rse of an address on handwriting, which he delivered before the Wellington branch of the Educational Institute recently, Mr J. S. Tennant said that nearly 2000 samples of writing were taken at tjhe Training College, and one of the most outstanding features was that &0 per cent of the writing was almost identical in ;-,tyle. Nine out of ten of our schools were adopting the same style and the same method. In some respects this was good, because uniformity to a large extent led to perfection, but r„t the same time there were some advantages in allowing tlhe child to develop cl ?r----acter in writing.

"Constable, I am going to speak to you in a moment; was my hand cart on the footpath in the morning or the afternoon?" These were the used by a defendant named V alter L. Cole in the Wellington Magistrate's Court (recently, when tie was cross-ex-amining a constable in a by-law case. "In the morning, at about 10.30," replied witness. "Before or after breakfast?" was the next question, and 'here His Wdrship remarked that it depended on what time defendant had his breakfast. The constable was unable to say on what day of the week the offence took place, and the defendant said, "I have a cousin who is a lawyer, you know, and * know something about law."

The resolution passed by the Wellington Education Board in favour -of the" organising of the efforts of schoolchildren for national service was "before the Wellington branch of the Educational) Institute the other, evening, when Mr. T. Foster moved that the institute heartily support the proposal. and that a committee be set up to grieffect to it. Miss Myers seconded tn? motion, and said that it had been suggested that a beginning might be made by providipg comforts for the hospital ship. She added that good work could bo done in finding homein town where soldiers coming from the country could be received and entertained; also in looking after returned troopers and the. families of those who do not return. Mr. 11. A. Parkinson endorsed the proposal, but expressed the opinion that it should have been submitted in the first instance to the institute, instead of to the Education Board. The motion was carried unanimouslv.

Recruiting in Wellington still con tinues to be very unsatisfactory, say: the Wellington Post. Nothwithstand ing that an urgent appeal has been is sued for men for the Tenth Reinforce

ments, going camp in six weeks* weeks' time, thai mure men than ever are required, and that aftor the 2s T inth Reinforcements are called up shortly there will be very few men on the waiting list, the rate of enlistment shows an improvement. Men are urgently

wanted for the Mounted Rifles and Infantry, but so far at the recruiting office they are conspicuous by their absence. It is hoped that the marked apathy at present being displayed will

immediately disappear, and that. ;'■ now on there will be a constant fiov of recruits to Buckle Street. Notlilnless than fifty men a day for some co* siderable time to come can be eor.sid ered as satisfactory.*

Something in the nature of.a sensation was created outside the Bank of Xew Zealand, Auckland, on Thursday afternoon, just about three o'clock. It was the last day of the bank's halfyear, and th e bank was crowded with customers mostly "paying in." Just brier to the hour mentioned a dozen or mere burly policemen entered the bank together and were ejhortly afterwards followed by a. number of others. The passers-by wdre quick to notice this forward movement cf the men in blue, and a crcAvd quickly gathered to await developments, and excitement ran high. Dark hints cf "bombs" and "German spies" filled'the air, and still the crowd grew, waiting with bated breath for tfhe denouement. After near'Jy half an hour, When excitement was at teveir heat, the end came. The members of the force emerged in twos and threes without any prisoners, their faces wearing a satisfied look. It was th e end cf tlle niollt^a ' and their P ay " day. They had all been in to cash their cheques!

As showing the enhanced value of the British Board of Trade created by the Empire's demand for its own goods since the outbreak of the war, a printed return has been received from Hornby the British Trade Commissioner (Mr. \V, G. Wickham). This papesays that the number of inquiries received at the Commercial Intelligence branch in 1014 was 25,799, compared with 9,829 in 191:!. and the number or personal inquiries was 144,794, compared with 0,830 in the previous year. Replies to the number of 10,747 by consular officers and 2.345 by Trade Commissioners and correspondents wer? transmitted to firms by the branch. The effect of the enforced closing t3own on German and Austrian goods by traders in all parts of the Empire is forcibly illustrated by quoting the figure:? for the concluding five months of 1913 and 1914. For that period in 1913, 4,123 written inquiries were received, whilst for the corresponding period of last year 19,772 inquiries were received by the branch.