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Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 143, 20 June 1916, Page 4

The following extra men have been called up for the 18th Reinforcements; v—Alibeht [Palmer, Taihape; Win E. Heidfein, Taihape; Frederick Waller, Taihape.

The Auckland Racing Club has decided to give £IOO each to the Aeroplane Fund and Blue Cross Fund, and £SOO to the Navy League North Sea Relief Fund. It has also decided to pay the club employees a 10 per cent, war bonus.

The output of coal in the Dominion for the year was 2,208,624 tons, as against 2,275,5993 tons for the preceding year, a decrease of 66,969 tons. This decreased output is not surprising in view of the difficulties caused by the shortage of competent miners and also of steamers to carry the coal.

The outbreak of the war and the heavy casualties suffered by the New Zealand Forces have naturally caused a large increase in the claims under nolicies in the Government Insurance (Department,andwjpr )tj|aims to,' date have been received in respect to 295 policies, representing £63,433 assured.

The other day a man over in Sydney told -his friends that he had been turned down by the recruiting office because he had “haricot” veins. We clip the following item from a contemporary of this Coast regarding the passing of a local man: “He was taken to the hospital yesterday suffering from a sceptic throat, and his death came as a shock to his relatives and friends.’

’‘The department has no official knowledge of the transaction referred to, cr the liability of Lieut. Grierson -therewith,” was the reply of the Minister for Defence to a question asked in the House by Mr J. Payne (Grey Lynn), as to whether Lieut, Grierson left an order with the Defence Department to pay the £6 or £7 he hhd been owing his landlady for his board for over eighteen months, and for the washing account he had been owing for a like period, and whether the landlady has been paid.

According to a Sydney cable, at a meeting ot the Freedom League ot Socialists, representatives of the Political Labour League attended, and seven thousand unanimously carried a motion condemning conscription.

Considerable inconvenience is being caused by the chronic state of lateness of the Wellington-Auckland express. This morning it Avas again about an hour behind time.

The Imperial authorities requested that all supplies of scheelite and molybdenum in NeAv Zealand be requisitioned for Avar purposes at a fixed price, and the Government is uoav purchasing all supplies available.

According to Mr Foster, the total number of men employed in the Royal Aircraft Factory is 3223, and their Aveekly pay amounts to £9438. The salaries of the five senior officers are ,£3OOO (full time), £630, tAVo of £550 ■and £450.

The five-yearly sensus of the Dominion population will be taken on October 15, next. The Chief Postmaster at [Wanganui (Mr G. W. Sampson) Avil be chief enumerator for the area within the counties of Wanganui and [Waitotara, and sub-enuraerators will be appointed shortly.

Mrs Edlin, pupil of the famous Her Littolf, of Melbourne, and of Canterbury College, Christchurch, Avill receive pupils for the pianoforte and for theory. Mrs Edlin is also open to take engagements for playing at socials. dances etc, Her residence is at “Rangitira,” Huia street.

American dye Avorks are uoav turning out coal-tar colours at the rate of [ISAO*OO j!:on|s annujally, manufactured wholly from American raw material. Before the Avar they produced only 3300 tons, mostly manufactured from imported by-products. The total imports of such colours previous to the Avar was 25,000 tons annually..

The captain of one of the latest of our Dreadnoughts, in a letter of thanks to the Vegetable Products Committee, which sends fruit and vegetables to the Fleet, Avrites “to-day, in our huge cruiser fleet, the sick only number 0.7 per cent.”

Writing from London on April 21 a correspondent states that the Sellar family, avlio Avere prominent in Ncav Zealand for their opposition to the Military Service Bill, are uoav faced with the same form of “tyranny” in their native land. They are living in a smallt OAvn in Essex, where Mr Sellar, sen., and one or tAvo of his sons are at present engaged in bringing out a small publication called “Mufti,” Avhich seems to champion the rights of the subject to remain civilians, ~

It is understood that, as the result of negotiations by the Board of Trade, the Colonial Sugarße fining Company has agreed to maintain the present wholsale price for a further period of twelve months. The present price of sugar is £2l per ton, and it is considered that in securing a renewal of the contract the Board has made an arrangement which should be eminently satisfactory to the public. In Australia, Great Britain, and other countries the wholesale price is much higher, even allowing for Customs taxation.

In estates under £4OO the Public Tiustee does not, asis the case with a private trustee, require to take out probate or letters, of administration, entailing the cost of court fees and solicitors’ charges (says the Budget), The Public Trustee . in lieu of such procedure, simply files an election to administerat a total cost of 3s. This is of great advantage to soldiers’ estates, which are usually of . modest amount. The office charges nothing for handling military pay, and charges only 1 per cent on the other assets. There is no charge for legal services. This arrangement has been the means of administering some hun-

dreds of soldiers’ estates at purely nominal cost. The Public Trust Office has also made arrangements to act as attorney or agent for soldiers, with power to pay alowances, insurance premiums, etc. A nominal fee of 10s Pd or £1 Is a year, according to the work to be done, is charged, an interest is allowed on any moneys held by the Public Trustee under the agency. Many hundreds of soldiers have availed themselves of this arrangement, and it is desired in the interests of the soldiers that the existence of the privilege should be widely known.

It may be of interest to some of the farming community to hear that Messrs Wootton and Brown, of the Olmra Valley, Main Trunk end of the Stratford line, won the Waikato Cup for turnips, at Hamilton Show (a silver rose bowl, valued at £ls), against the whole of the Waikato. The country on which they have 114 acres of ploughed turnips and a fine crop of both swedes and turnips) is only I years from its original state of 12ft. high fern, tute, .etc., and has had better result than the burn turnips, which are very good (3ft. high tops) m places and bare altogether of turnips (not grass) in others. This season, throughout the North Island, has boo a an unusually bad one for mot crops generally, as is generally known. Even rape has not been good, and the present high prices of lambs and sheep are sustained mainly by H e c ceptiona! autumn and winter growth of grass, excepting, of course, the war prices influence.