The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 19 November 1915, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1915. LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

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

The wholesale price of eggs advanced to Is 4d per dozen yesterday in Wellington.

A claim for £IOOO from Miss Hogg, for injury to her health while teaching at Moturimu, was received.

As showing the high prices likely to rule for cheese this season, an offer wa s made in this district of 7 7-8 d per lb, f.0.b., Wellington, for a parcel up to 50 tons. The offer was made by a local agent, non behalf of a Homefirm —Standard.

‘•lf I were asked to define the firing line,” said the captain, “I would say it was hell. But there is this difference between that and the theological hell. Once you 'have been to that hell you want to go ’back;”—Captain-Chaplain ,T. Sullivan, in a lecture in Wellington.

At Wednesday’s meeting the Wanganui Education Board received a claim of £IOOO for alleged damages from one of its teachers, as solace for a breakdown in health while in the Board’s employ. The letter concluded with the somewhat startling request, “Prompt settlement will oblige.” The rescript occasioned hilarity. It was de cided to “receive” the claim only.

Some statements have been current that New ‘Zealand sdldiers are not being paid at Gallipoli while resting. The Minister for Defence recently stated that he got into communication with General Godley, and received the following reply: “All New Zealand officers and men have regular and ample facilities for drawing pay, both at Mudros and Gallipoli. Our field cashiers visit both places regularly.”

The Education Department wrote making a grant for additions ot Taihape school: refusing grant for Durie Hill drainage; suggesting abandonment of charge for clerical assistance to inspectors', stating confidential reports of physical instructors would be supplied; reducing standard of space for school accommodation to 60ft; objecting to art unions in schools; and reminding the Board about temperance charts in schools.

The Defence Minister states that it has been decided to suspend recruiting for the Ambulance and the Army Service Corps, and possibly for some other branches. Additional men at present are not required for those branches. Recruits have been showing a marked preference for them, to the neglect of the Infantry and Mounted Rifle branches, and the result is long lists of men awaiting their turns to be called. The same thing in a lesser degree applies to the Artillery branch. “I am doing nine hours a day, and I cannot do more,” stated a prominent Gisborne sheep-fanner, when discussing the problem of the shortage of farm labour owing to so many young men from the country going to the war. He pointed out that if the “silver bullet” was going to win the war it was necessary to keep up the production of the country, and this could not be done if they lost their men. He was of opinion that the Minister of Defence should be approached on the subject. Another well-known sheep-farmer interposed that the remedy would be iif. employing married men end prorMe them - with cottages. x, _

The letter of an Onga Onga lady is published in ffe-e advertisement of Collin son and 'Cunninghame, Palmerston North. ;S?/e page 8 for interesting reading..

Sorting and packing the goods for the equipment of the hospital ship Manama is going cn busily in Wellington, and it is expected that everything will Tie complete by next Saturday.

Mr D. J. McLennan will sell at the ! 'Tui Street Mart, on Saturday, the whole of Mr Hammond’s household furniture and effects, also six weaner

pigs, crockeryware and tools oT every description.

The Prime Minister stated in Auckland that there are no new developments regarding the suggested visit to England of himself and Sir Joseph Ward. He does not expect to be able to make a definite statement on the subject for a few weeks to come.

It is notified by Mr N. K. Drayton, the Acting-Secretary to the Carnival Committee, that the drawings of the combined raffles (Ford Car and Sideboard) will take place in the Town Hall, Taihape, at 8 p.m., on Monday, the 27th November. All butts from ticket sellers must be returned to the Acting Secretary not later than noon on the day of drawing.

The impression made upon letters by automatic stamping machines used by business houses are not recog lised outside New Zealand. Ignorance cf this fact has caused the Postal Department much trouble, as it has been necessary to employ officei's to sort out letters so stamped and restamp them.a service for which no charge has been made by the Department.

Returned soldiers from the front sometimes have the power to give information thsft is of incalculable value to those who are perforce left behind. Information respecting Lieutenant Clifford Barclay, of tJhe Second South Canterbury Infantry, who is reported wounded and missing since April 25th, ig advetised for by Mrs Barclay, of Wa>mate, South Island, and no doubt returned soldier, who can, will readily help to allay the lady’s concern.

A regulation covering the activity of billstickers has been adopted by the Christchurch City Council, as follows: —"Any person affixing any placard, writing, or painting on any building, wall, pavement, statue, column, post, fence, gate, hoarding, or telegraph post, having the consent of the owner or person in possession thereof, shall produce such consent in writing to any constable or city inspector when required io do so.’’

The Marlborough Express says that Lake Eltertwater, on the Flaxbourne settlement, has been entirely without water long enough to show a good growth of grass where there are in normal seasons several feet of water, and in addition rape has been sown on part of its bed. Residents who have known the district for half a century have not known the lake dry up before, and this is an indication of the l*ecord dry season experienced during the last two years.

At the Wellington Diocesan Conference of the Church of England Men’s Society, the following resolution was adopted—“ That, in view of the cm sis through which this nation is passing —a crisis that demands from the whole community the utmost self-sacrifice — this conference calls upon its members to discourage race meetings and ail other forms of unprofitable amusement, and to promote the consolidation cf the whole energy of the people to the service of the Empire.”

The subject of enemy trading was discussed by the executive of the Dominion Chamber of Commerce at Wellington. It was decided that the council of the Wellington Chamber should formulate proposals to lay before (he Government with a view to checking any enemy products which may be coming into the country now, and to make recommendations regarding trading after the war. Proposals suggests 1 by the Auckland Chamber will be used as a basis, in conjunction with proposals made by the previous conference.

Recently there appeared in a London newspaper an advertisement for an experienced insurance clerk, wages fifteen shillings a week. The advertiser got a lot of sarcastic letters like the following, and he deserved them too; "Dear Sir,—l would respectfully apply for the position you offer. lam an expert in insurances in all its branches. In addition I converse freely Gaim Arabic, Gorgonzola, Zola, and Bilingsgate. I write shorthand, longhand, left hand, and right hand. I

can supply my own typewriter if necessary, and I may mention that T

typewrite half an hour in ten minutes —-the record for Great Britain. T would be willing also to let yon have the services, gratis, of my large family of boys, and if agreeable to yon my wife would be pleased to clean yon r office regularly without extra charge. The cost of postage for your answer to this application’ can be deducted from my .-.alary. Please note that if you have a backyard I’ would raaka >r ijhj: In ?pgre time.'’ v

Mrs. W. J. Bason, of Okoia, has received word that Trooper W. Bason is at Alexandria Hospital. He is suffering from shock, but is progressing satisfactorily.

1 Electric light users are notified by the Town Clerk that to-morrow, the . 20th November, is the last day on ! which discount will be allowed.

The annual general meeting of the Taihape Swimming Club .is to be held at Em’s Hotel, on Friday evening, 26th November, at 8 o’clock. As officers for the ensuing year are to be elected and other important business transacted, it is hoped members will make a point of being present.

For some time a number of medical students, particularly juniors, have desired to go to the front rather than complete their studies here, states a Dunedin wire, Surgeon-General Henderson, addressing them to-day, urged them to complete their courses; then they couM relieve the house surgeons in the hospitals, enabling these experienced men to go to the front.

A curious accident, which might easily have been attended with fatal results, happened in Timaru on Monday morning. A car which was passing through from Dunedin met a youth on a bicycle at the junction of Stafford and High Streets, and by some means the two collided head on. The boy was thrown clean over the car, and abided on the road at the back of it, without any broken bones, but the bicycle was badly shattered.

Extract from a letter received from the front—‘Talking of newspapers, how the editors of some of them caa print the slush written by some of the men beats me. They fell in very b idly over a Sergeant , who began, ‘I must return: I will return, to avenge ray fallen comrades, giving a graphic dsecription of his landing at Anzac. Why, the blighter never was a sergeant, and never left Zeitoun until he embraked to return to New Zealand — never saw Anzac —yet his letter was copied into half the papers of New Zealand. Several wrote from Egypt showing him up, but T have never yet seen a paper containing the contradiction. Other papers publish a highfalutin’ letter froma c orporal of the Medical Corps, stating that he was a medical officer of a ship containing 1300 wounnes. And yet editors publish such stuff as that, and in the same isshe scarify our records people because they don’t supply information they never rereive—because, presumably, they don’t manufacture information so as to be able to send something.”