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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 139, 15 June 1916, Page 4

The Ilawke's Bay County Council yesterday resolved to ask all its single employees why they have not enlisted.

It is frequently wondered during conversations on the war just hoi* many enemy steamers are bottled ug in American ports. The latest ret turns show that there are to-day ft| U.S.A. harbours 52 German and 12 Austrian vessels valued at £21,000,000 and aggregating 527,29 S tons. Of these, uo fewer than 30 are lying Ifi New York waters, including the leviathan Vaterland, the 50,00-toS Hamburg-American Go's liner.

A petition for the release of Alice Parkinson, sentenced at "papier to a' long term of imprisonment for tho' shooting of a man whose treatment of her had led her iato desperate straits', is being circulated by the Wellington committee who have taken up her case, The petition will be presented to Parliament before the close of the session* A copy may be seen at the " Times* * office, where it lies for signature byj those who sympathise with the un* happy woman in her sad experience of life.