The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1915 LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 310, 6 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1915 LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Foot *Ana Waimannu News.)

Title Wellington Chamber of Commerce, yesterday, on the motion of Mr J. G. Harkness, approved the resolution passed by th e Dominion Commecre Gongtress affirming the necessity for closer settlement.

The Minister in charge of the Public Trust Office (Right Hon. Sir Joseph Walrd) promised yesterday to consider a suggestion made by Mr G. Witty (Riccarton) that t{he office should undertake to make soldiers’ wills In the military camps, and should administer soldiers’ ©states free of cost.

Returned soldiers and soldiers’ dependents in this district, who are entitled to apply for pensions under the recently enacted pensions legislation, are advised that all the necessary forms and information in connectlo-a therewith may be obtained from the Clerk of the Court, at Taihape. An interview with that gentleman maysave applicants a lot of trouble.

The Taihape Patriotic Committee invites the public of town and district to be present at a send-off gathering in the Town Hall, to say farewell to the lads who are about to go into camp in readiness for proceeding to the front. This farewell, which will take the form of a social and dance, is to be held on the evening of Monday, 11th October, as the boys leave by the early train the following morning. It is hoped that our people will show thenappreciation of the newly enlisted soldiers’ sacrifies by greeting them with a full house.

A suggestion that representatives of famous British regiments, selected fiom among the invalided men in Britain, should be brought to New Zealand in older to stimulate recruiting was made in tjhe House of Representatives yesterday by Mr J. Craigie (Timqlru. The Prime Minister said he though idea rather a good one, and would consult with the Defence Minister on the poiint. His own opinion was that the men of New Zealand would provide th e required number of recruits —it was likely to be a very large numbed without stimulation from abroad.

Unlike other baking powders, SHARLAND’S Pure and Sure Compound costs no more than before the War. Save money by using SHABLAND’S.

Mr. Shiite, of the Taihapo Labour Exchange, is advertising in this issue for sawmill and farm hands.

The .petition in favour of the remisSion of the sentence for manslaughter imposed on Alice Parkinson has 62,187 signatures to date, including 10,599 for Hawke’s Bay. Petitions with over 60,000 signatures have been forwalrded to the Governor, arid the last volume of tjhe petition is now in preparation.

Scottish distillers have been compelled, owing to the urgent needs of the Government for industrial alco!hol used in connection with the manufacture of high to cufrtail .their allocations -cf spirit for whisky to such an extent that supplies must fall short of requiremnts.

The annual general meeting of the Rangitikei A. and P. Association will be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on Saturday, 9th October, at 2 p.m., when it is hoped there will be a large attendance of members. The chief business is to receive the annual report and bal-ance-sheet and to eject officers for the ensuing year. In the House yesterday afternoon th e Minister for Education stated that his colleagues did not agree with the recommendations of the Royal Ccmn'ssion to reduce the education districts to seven, but a bill would be introduced this session to increase the number which will, however, be less than the original, thirteen.

Th e Prime Minister stated last night tlhat preparations for taking the National Register were nearly complete. The work was in the hands of the Register-General’s Department.lt is expected that the taking of the register will icccupy about a fortnight. Then the results will have to be collated and tabulated, and the task is likely to occupy at least a month. The register certainly will not be ready in time to assist the Defence Department in filing the Tenth Renforcements, due to go into camp early in November.

Concrete roads are beginning to bring the millennium to motorists, as well as to drivers of horses, in a few progressive spots in the West of the United States, and before long, after the depressed business conditions have improved, many other communities are likely to follow the good example. The concrete roads are reported to be smooth, dry and dustless, and more durable than any other kind. A (heavy farm wagon that needs four hdrses on any ordinary country road needs only two on concrete. Durng tire last three years ninety-one miles of concrete treads have been built by Milwaukee County, Wisconsin.