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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 160, 7 August 1916, Page 4

A cable this morning states that Canada's war expenditure now totals a million dollars daily.

The eJg.ht million Government loan to be placed on the New Zealand market next week, is definitely a loan for war purposes, states the Prime Minister.

B'uilders and others axe notified thar tenders will be received by the Secretary of the |Wanganui Education Board until noon on Saturday, August 19th, for the erection of conveniences ane installation of drainage, etc., 'at fee Mangaweka Public School. Plans ana specifications can be seen at the Taihpe Daily Times Office.

The Crown Lands Department h'a« made, in the interests of settlement, some alterations in the arbitrary mile boundary on the left bank of the Wanganui River, and as a result of a survey and some adjustments, over three hundred 'acres have been added to the River Trust Board's jurisdiction some forty miles above Pipiriki.

Another attempt is being made by the Government to complete provision for landless natives in the South Island, the Legislative Council inserting in the Washing-up Bill a clause empowering the Governor on recommenda tiort of the Native Land Court, to reserve areas of Crown land and to issue certificates of title to landless natives unprovided for by the 1906 Act. The section will operate till December, 1917.

At the Mangaweka Juvenile Court on Friday a lad 14 years of age pleaded guilty to stealing two blank cheques from his employer, and with attempting to pass them for various sums of money. The lad was committed to the Weraroa Training Farm.

A Pres s Association telegram states that New Zealand produce entered for export last week was valued at £672,509, including butter and cheese, £23,239; meat, £177,920; gold, £75,325; hides, £50,136; flax, £57,057; tallow, £29,333; wool, £242,795.

The several amounts paid to the

| medical profession in each of the four | centres for examining men as to their fitness for military service during the

twelve months ending March 31st, 191(>, wor e as under: —Auckland, £IOSB 3s 6d; Wellington, £9O-4 13s; Christchurch. £1042 15s: Dunedin, £342 2s (id; total, £3434 14s.

At a special meetutg of the Otago Chamber of Commerce a resolution was carried urging the Government to take power to deal with the position of wheat growing and flour milling in the Dominion, with a view to ensuring sufficiency of wheat for requirements being grown this season.

Red Cross workers and all engaged on sewing for our boys will read with interest the advertisement on page », from Collinson & Cunn interna me, of Palmerston North. Suggestive lists of materials needed for this noble worK are given, and low prices are quoted. The firm pays postage, and will send samples and pattern s free to any address.

A boy of fifteen years, named Claude Henry Waddell, shot himself at his home in Devon Street , Eden terrace. His father, a baker's driver, returned home for lunch and discovered a note in the boy's writing in which the lad stated that he intended to shoot himself On making a search, Mr Waddell found the dead body of his son in the house, the boy having evi-

dently shot himself through the heart with a pea-rie.

On next Thursday evening the Taihape Orchestra will proceed to Utiku, and give a concert, under the auspices of the ¥tiku-Ohutu Social and Patriotic Club, in aid of patriotic funds. A danee is to follow the concert. As Utiku social functions of this character hav e a name for their enjoyableness, no doubt there will be a very large attendance.

Though we have on several .occasions answered the question, ''When does Spring commence" it comes in again, (says the Dunedin "Star."). Our reply is in this form: Taking the 21st June as. mid-winter, and allotting three months to each of the four seasons, winter must be the period of 13 weeks that is the 21st June in the middle six weeks and ahalf prior to and six weeks and a half following the 21st June. By that calculation. Spring commences on August sth or 6th. This is the astronomical division of the season.

It is not often that'one police officer prosecutes another member of the force, and it becomes unique when the senior-sergeant appears for the prosecution ajgainst the sub-inspector. Such a case took lace in the Duned

Police Court on Tuesday, when Sub-In-spector Broberg was charged with permitting! a chimney in his residence in Castle Street to be on fire. A plea of guilty was entered by the defendant, who exxplained that he had been an occupant of the house for only nine weeks.

Mr Li. Curtis, of the "Round Table," in the course .of an address before the Expansion League at Dunedin, said that had New Zealand not adopted prior to the war a form of compulsory military training, he did not think it would have been adopted in En'gilanct to-day. The act of the New Zealand democracy, followed by the Australian democracy, made the whole difference when the moment of trial came to England. Again, the influence of New Zealand was felt in Canada when that Dominion wa s debating the question of naval defence.

A long search and a weary wait have usually to be faced by the seeker after a house to be let in Wellington. Nearly every house agent in the city has a waiting list of people anxious to find a dwelling, and some of them have been waiting a long time. It is stated that "almost any old sort or house" will readily be taken up. The competition is so keen that people walk about the suburbs, not only to search for empty houses, but to try 'and discover signs of the erection or houses which may possibly be ler later. A certain landlord .had a very striking experience in this regard lately. He determined to build t.hre-o houses, and sent a representative to mark off the plot of land. Before this operation was finished, before the first piece of timber or the first brick was on the ground, all the house s had been let on lease—one for five years, the second for taree years, and the third for two years. The above correctly dia- , closes the position ic Taihapc

A man named Max Bornhold, a jewel ler, at M'anfeaweka, was arrested this morning, and is to be interned on Somes Island.

A young man named James Baldwin escaped from the Mount Cook prison on Friday, and up to a late noun last night had not been recaptured. He was undergoing a sentence of three years for breaking and entering.

Dr Newman, M.P., is leaving Auckland in the Niagara, leaving for Vancouver on Tuesday next. Dr Newman proposes to mak e a short trip to England returning in January. He is visiting his son, who is righting on the Western front.

On a charge of having failed to allow the auditor reasonable access to his books, W. C. Noot, ex-secretary to th e Wellington Tramways Union Carnival Fund, was fined ss, with 13s costs, by Mr D. G. A. Cooper, S.M.

The annual conference of the Agricultural and Pastoral Workers' Union opened on Friday, when delegates from the various rural centres were present. The proceedings are expected to last over a week, and are not open to the Press.

The unusual sight of a horse trying to walk across the Aramoho railway bridge was witnessed on Saturday. Stepping from sleeper to sleeper, the animal got half-way across, and then, after a bit of a scramble it turned round, and managed to suceessfully retrace its steps.

A decorated Italian soldier who disappeared and in his absence was condemned to death as a traitor, reappeared recently in an Austrian officer's uniform, reporting that he purposely deserted in order to secure valuable information from the enemy and a second medal.

The ladies of the Ked Cross Society Shop remind the generously inclined people of Taihape and district that they will be glad to have donations of cakes, produce, or any other article that can be sold, in aid of the Rod Gross Work. Donors are reminded that the shop is open to receive and to sell every "Wednesday and Saturday.

On Sunday a wom'an, who lives near Ellis Road, was standing near the house, when she heard a shot fired, and the bullet, presumably a pea-rifle bullet, whizzed past her. It is stated that other people saw a boy with a pearifle on the hill. The indiscriminate use of firearms by boys is extremely dangerous, and the police will probably hail any offenders before the Court.