The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 319, 22 October 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

("With which is incorporated The Taihapc Post and Waimarino News.)

No fewer than 37(5 men have enlisted at the Wellington Town Hall during the last few days. Mr. A. M combie, of Moawhango ad- i vertises for a blacksmith; must be a J good horseshoer. A New York cable states that a further five millions sterling in gold has arrived under warship escort, consigned to the Morgan Company. Mr. F. J. Carter, of the Ohubiuve Sawmills, is advertising in this issue for an experienced man for planing machine. Applicants should address Box 5, Ohakune. The secretary of the T uhapo Tradesmen’s Association notifies in another column that all shops wil'l be closed or Monday next, October 25th, it being Labour Day. Shops will remain open all night on the following Thursday, . 2Sth inst. The men at the front include a Pongaroa settler and his son, the father being among the wounded. The farm is being managed by a sixteen-year-old son. The mother is at present in a nursing home, recently having given birth to her thirteenth child. A photograph of a group of wounded soldiers and two newspaper cuttings, letter s from the front, are advertised for in another column. It is hoped that the finder will return them, as they belong to lihe mother of one of the boys in the picture. Of rabbits and hares 613,737 carcases, valued at £17,5616, were exported from the Dominion in August of the present year, as compared with 256,967 carcases, valued at £8,065, exported in I August of last year. In the first eight months of this year 1,920,610 carcases, valued at £35,425, were exported, as against 874,103, valued at £20,091 in the first eight months of 1914.

' The Prime Minister mentioned, in connection with the meat trade, that the Government had arranged to purchase all meat required for the training camps and transports from the refrigerating stores. The meat in the stores was the property of the Imperial Government, and the stock required for the New Zealand troops was purchased at the current prices.

Under the soldiers’ gift club scheme post parcels separately addressed to members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force cn active service abroad may be combined in one parcel. Hitherto the Post Office has required such parcels to be addressed to the officer commanding a regiment; but in order to avoid probable indefinite delay in delivery, it now requires them to be addressed to the officer command-

ing a unit. The separate packages contained in one parcel .should, therefore, be for members the same unit.

Captain Simpson, speaking at the meeting ct' the amateur sports executive at Banks’s College recently, gave particulars of a very amusing case of the enlistment cf an old soldier for the present war. The old fellow was as grey as a badger, but he coolly gave his age as 39. Colonel Harding happened to be the recruiting officer, and he recognised title “young recruit” as a man who had served under him in South Africa 23 years before. “Have yon not had previous military experience?” asked Colonel Harding. “Yes.” replied the recruit, “I was in your command, sir, in South Africa.” “Yes; ! know that,” said the colonel, “but T never knew your age before.” (Laughter.) J 3.

On Wednesday, .-wight the Wr.nganii Board of Education roeeved appliea tious for leave of absence from 2,teachers, principal!}' on account of :1! ness. In addition ten applicants wee received from teachers wanting to job the Expeditionary Forces. For August of the present year 459.STS carcases of mutton, valued at £425. (>B4, were exported from New Zealand as against 12:1.471' carcases, valued a! £59,4(j3, for August. 1944. For the first eight months of this year 2,0-j2,-980 carcases, valued at £2.015,404, were exported, as against 2.145,757 carcases, valued at £1,020.041 for the first eight months of 1914, Flowing a much bigger value exported in the first eight months of 1915 in spite of a slight falling on in the number cf carcases. In a Atter jus- received, private VA Marshall, an engineer in the t'nion Co.’s employ, who was wounded nr Gallipoli, and is now in the Convalescent Camp, Epsom, England, wrires. "The King and Queen visited the New Zealand Hospital the other day. and had a talk with every chap separately. It was rather funny, as some'of the chaps got a bit excited, and starred to address the Queen as ‘Mum.’ ‘Miss,’ and ‘Mrs.’ The King and Queen were very nice indeed, and talked in a very homely fashion, which made the boys feel quite at case eventirilly. ’ ’ Now that sandbags pi'ay such an important part in trench warfare (writes a lady to the London Times), I think the following suggestion sent me by my husband, who is commanding a battalion in France, may be worth publishing. He asks for sandbags to lie sent out to him, and makes a good point of their being daubed all over with irregular patches of black, brown, and green paint to render them invisible to the enemy. He adds that “the Gormans build their parapets so much better than we do, using different coloured bags; it is almost impossible to detect their loopholes, whereas ours are very easily seen.’’ This seems an easy and practicable suggestion, and may be the means of saving countless lives.

During one of the recent air raids on the East Coast of England, a well-

known surgeon was performing the operation of tracheotomy at a nursing home when the German aircraft came over the place at night. The town electric light went out sudde.nlv at the

very moment when the surgeon was opening the windpipe. Fortunately, says the Lancet, it was not the first attack delivered against this place, a fishing and sea-bathing resort. Taught by experience, the operator had made it a matter of habit to warn his nurses and other assistants that lamps should kept ready for use during aid operations which had to be undertaken at night. This precaution may have saved the small patient ’s life. "With but a trifling delay the tracheotomy was completed, and the child is now doing well.