LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 18, 22 January 1916, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL NEWS.

A proclamation lias been issued extending to; June 30th the term during which the, notes of the six banks doing business in the Dominion shall be legal tender.

Ignatius Lincoln, formerly a membei; of the British Parliament, who had confessed himself to be a German spy, and was awaiting extradition to England, has escaped from custody.

The special train service arrangements for the Feilding A. and P. Show are advertised in another column. Tickets will be issued by the 6.5 a.m. train on the 2nd February from Taihape which are available for return until 17th February.

Two applications for auctioneer’s licenses w'ere considered at the meeting -of the Taihape Borough Council last evening, one from Mr. D. J. McLennan and the other from the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Ltd., both applications being granted.

At the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council last evening, the Rangitikei A. anti P. Association were granted the use of the recreation ground for their forthcoming show at the usual charge and it was decided Ao devote the funds received for. the ’.ground to the Patriotic Fund.

Some potato crops in Dannevirke have been attacked by a new kind of blight.

A four-roomed house with two acres ■of land, within four minutes of the railway station, is advertised tc let at lE/- per week.

To-moiVow (Sunday) night at the Three Stars Theatre two star pictures of 2,000 ft each will be shown, entitled ‘ ‘ The 1 Sea o Eternal” and “The Next Generation.”

Mr. H .J. H. Blow, Undersecretary for Public Works, has resigned, and leaves the service, which he joined in 1873, in April, on three months’ leave of absence.

Australian files to hand this week tell of the probability of ‘a general rise in oversea cargo rates. Nothing definite as to the amount of the increase was known when the mail left.

Among the names of those who passed the intermediate exam, of NoA’ember last, qualifying for senior places in the District High School, are four in the Taihapc centre, namely: D. E. Boyd, N. B. Brodiriek, W. Henson, and E. Wakeman.

The musketry course for 1915-10 for D Company of the 7th Regiment is to be carried out at the Gravel Pit, Taihape, on Thursday, 27th, and Saturday, 29th January. This will/ be the only opportunity of local members before camp and those who wish to avoid four days extra camp will have to complete this course.

The Post Office at Piriaka is being shifted from its present site to a place directly alongside the Factory, md the alteration will be appreciated not only by the postmistress, Miss Rendell, but by the settlers, whose Tansaction of mail business will be facilitated by having the post office in so central and convenient a location.

Dr. A. A. Martin, of Palmefston North (“a surgeon in khaki”) has decided to accompany the New Zealand Fjeld Ambulance into the firing line. This corps is expected to leave New Zealand in the first week in February feir destination unknown. It is understood that Dr. Barnett, of Taihape, will continue Dr. Martin’s practice in New Zealand.

The weekly shipment from the Kaitieke Co-operative Dairy Factory sent away on Monday, constitutes a record for the Piriaka institution. Despite the advance of the season and the dry weather, the supply of cream is still keeping up to normal because of the. steady increase in the number of suppliers, who extend ever a long stretch of 60 miles of bailway from Karori to Taringamotu.

At the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council last evening, it was resolved on the recommendation of the Electric Light and Waterworks Committee that the charge for water as extraordinary supply under By-law No. 2, be 1/- per 1000 gallons less 25 per cent, if paid by the 20th of the month on which the account is rendered, and that the charge for Temporary supply be I/- per 1000 gallons.

Among those who will leave Taihape for camp on February Bth is Mr.-E. L. Leeks, of Ohingaiti, who is one of the four sons of Mr. E. Leeks. The other three sons volunteered and proceeded to th e front and have either been killed or wounded. The family have indeed carried out their duty to the Empire and their devotion to duty is a pattern for all to follow. Many parents, who for selffish reasons have prevented sons going to the front, might well follow the example of these, patriotic colonists.

The Wanganui Education Board at its meeting last week approved of the proposal of the Director (Mr. G. J. Park) to open a hostel for boys attending the College. An ideal house has been obtained in the Avenue, within a few minutes of the College and the hostel will be controlled by Mr. and Mrs. Park. This proposal will enable country boys, who may, if they wish, go home free by rail at week ends, to attend the Technical College, ana at the same time be under adequate supervision.

Two years ago a lad of IS years, John Eaton, left Edinburgh for Baffin Land, away to the notth of Canada, where he entered the employment cf the Hudson Bay Company. He was sent to the Harbour Lake outpost, which is the most northerly of the company’s posts, and here he was almost out of the world, with only Eskimos for companions and fellow-work-ers, whilst he only saw on e white man in the whole year. So complete, indeed, was his isolation from civilisation amongst, the native trappers and hunters of Baffin Land and the frozen north, that Eaton actually did not hear of the war till August 15th last year. He quickly made up his mind and decided to go back to the Old Country and answer the call for men. Leaving Harbour Lake on October 15th lie arrived home in Edinburgh after a journey of 5,000 miles. The Hudson Bay Company, defrayed the lad’s expenses home. Eaton has,now enlisted.