The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 338, 12 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

(With which is incorporated The Tat hape Post and Waimarino News.)

Part of Codfish Island, north-west of Stewart Island,, lias been permanently reserved for scenic purposes. Sixty years ago it was a favourite rendezvous for whalers, there being a native village there, but the island has been uninhabited for a long period.

The profits of the recent carnival at Marton were about £15,700, and of this amount £15,000 was invested with the Public Trustee and £7OO placed in the Post Olfice Savings Bank. At a meeting held the other night* it was decided to transfer the whole of the funds to the Minister, under the War Funds Act, and it was recommended that the chairmen of several of the surrounding local bodies be incorporated an advisory board, as provided by the Act.

“It is vain to chronicle heroism in this war; these vast armies are full of it.” says the Nation. “But an example of what a surgeon did in one of the battles of GalV.poll seems to be beyond the praise of great deeds, and to be fit only for silent pondering. He was badly wounded in both legs. For hours he lay in pain and helplessness. A great part of that waiting he employed in crawling from one wounded to another and ministering to their hurts.” *

The British Post Office has taken to war economy. In a recent Post Office circular attention was drawn by the authorities to the increasing cost of materials, and special reference is made to string, which is used largely in all departments. • Postmasters are instructed to limit their use of string to the minimum quantity. Wherever possible string should be re-used in 'the sorting office, and no lengths should be discarded which can again be utilised.The Stores Department of the General Post Office intimated last year that every year there was a wastage of 70,000 •telegraph forms.

Both Japanese and Russian soldiers arc wearing paper clothes. “Kaimi o, ’’ as paper clothing is called in Japan, Is made of the real Japanese paper manufactured from mulberry bark. The paper has little “size” in it, and, though soft and warm, a thin layer of silk wadding is placed between two sheets' of the paper, and the whole is quilted. Japanese soldiers realised the value- of tliis kind of clothing when they had to weather a Siberian winter, but its only drawback is that it is not washable. A company in Yokohama is supplying large quantities of paper shirts to the Russian army. They state, says the American Consul-Gen-eral at Yokohama, that paper clothes arc manufactured in Japan. The garment sold by the firm is made of tough, soft fabric, strong enough to hold buttons sewn on in the ordinary way, and appears to be very serviceable.

Behind the Allied lines there is going on every day’a systematic fight against those enemies of the soldier, who are far more terriblfe than the German hosts—bacteria. With the object of preventing epidemics, a wonderful system of regular daily disinfection now prevails behind the lines, and war is waged against bacteria on a wholesale scale. Specially designed machines are used. The machine consists of a steam lorry, with two huge portable disinfectors on tile van. which are able to disinfect the clothes of a battalion of men in 20 hours. The cleansing agency is the steam, which is generated by the lorry engine itself, land this plays upon the garments and f articles placed inside the two hug* I cylinders mounted on the waggon. Besides these there are hundreds of other steam disinfectors of a two-whoel portable type, horse-drawn, and adaptod to ordinary and hilly districts. These are furnace heated.

Cot a cold? Don’t drug the stomach with mixtures. Let the soothing, heali«g properties of “NAZOL” give you relief. 1/6 buys GO doses.

The banks in the Dominion are experiencing a shortage of clerks to carry

on their work through their staffs en-

listing. In some branches young women are being employed, and it is said that the board of directors of one bank is seriously considering the question of closing some of the country brandies on account of the depletion of the staffs.

.New that France is coming to rely more and more upon her colonial recruits, it is interesting to remember that they are coming from the vast districts of Africa that Lord Salisbury once alluded to as containing “very light land; that is to say, it is tfhe Desert, of the Sahara.” Sir Henry Stanley and the late King of the Belgians saw further than Lord Salisbury. “The French,” said Stanley, while Britain was laughing at the “very light land.” “have got the best of it, for they have got the country which breeds soldiers”; and King Leopold wagged his head at the French plenipotentiaries as he said, “Ah! yes, T see what you want there. You are looking for men.” And by all accounts France is finding men there to-day.

Hull plans of the two new 32,000-ton super-Dreadnoughts, bids for which were advertised at Washing* - .) are being closely guarded by the American Navy Department officials, as they include new ideas as to defence against torpedo attacks (states a recent American paper). While the general characteristics of the ships have been made public, no details of the hull construction have been given out. It is understood. however, that the experiments with floating caissons begun immediately after the effectiveness of submarines was demonstrated in the European war, have thrown light upon the problem of guarding ships’ bottoms from torpedo attack, and that provision has been made in plans for the new vessels for greater subdivision and possibly for a degree of armour over vital sections. The new ships will virtually duplicate the California class in appearance. They will have the clipper bows adopted for the California, carry 12 14-inch guns mounted three to a turret, and will make 201 knots an hour. In size the ships will be the maximum that can pass through the Panama Canal, 640 ft in length and 97ft. in beam.