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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 205, 5 October 1916, Page 4

The West London District Council of Master Bakers has unanimously cecided that on no account should German bakers released from internment camps at the close of the war will bo lowed to re-enter the trade.

The Main Trunk Brewery is advertising thirty well-bred Berkshire weaner pigs for sale.

The management of the Three Stars wishes to announce that he has secured the rights to show "Cabiria" in Taihape on the 17th andlSth, and the the "Birth of a Nation" on the Ist November. Fuller particulars will be advertised later.

The mails which left New Zealand on the 17th of August arrived in Lon ■don on the afternoon of October 1 This may probably refer to a mail that left Wellington on that date, but it should have arrived earlier.

\ The Minister for Internal Affairs has ceceived a cablegram from the Canadian Government stating that passports are not necessary to enable passengers from New Zealand to enter the Dominion of Canada.

A new Curtis aeroplane which is described as a Zeppelin destroyer, has been tested at Buffalo. It attained a maximum speed of 120 miles an hour, and rose to a height of 1000 feet in a minute.

A deputation to the Minister of AgriCulture in Welington from those concerned in the butter trade urged the removal of the embargo on exports, also the recognition of at least 2d per lb, to bring butter for the local market in line with the value for export. The Minister has referred she matter to the Board of Trade for fuller information

At the meeting of the Rangitikei County Council oh Saturday when the recruiting correspondence was read, the engineer remarked that two sons of one settler had been killed and two others were on the way to the front. And at Taihape, said a councillor, there are eight sons in one family, and not one has enlisted. There are families here of four and five eligible sons none of whom have enlisted. —Wauganui Herald.

Sir Alfred Booth, speaking at the annual meeting of an English shipownnig Company, roundly condemned the excess profits tax, which, he mam tained, took money which ought to have been turned into new ships as quickly as possible. The Exchequer Was draining part of the lifebiood of a vital industry, instead of taking the money out of the poekets of individuals like himself, for instance, who could afford to pay.

The rates on parcels for New Zealand soldiers and nurses on active service in England, Egypt, Flanders, France, and Mesopotamia are as follows: - Not exceeding 31b, Is; not exceeding 71b, 2s; not exceeding 111 b, 3s. These rates also apply to parcels addressed to New Zealand sailors on board the Philomel or any other warships manned by New Zealand crews.

Sir G. Clifford, chairman of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company writes as follows to the Press: "Information received from our agents in London indicates that there is a probability., amounting to nearly an assurance, that the Government's price for meat shipped on the Government's account from the Dominion will be increased for the coming season. I deem it a duty to make public this intimation for what it is worth, in veiw of our wish to protect all the interests affected.

Complaints having been made that New Zealand prisoners of war in Turkey are not receiving any money the 'Minister of Defence cabled to the High Commissioner. In reply, Sir Thomas Mackenzie details the steps he took to provided for the wants of the New Zealand prisoners of Avar. His message concludes: "Since receipt of -your cablegram the Foreign Office has been interviewed, and has cabled the American Ambassador at Constantinople regarding the complaints I will telegraph again when a reply is received."

The Post Office authorities announce that a letter addressed to a soldier in care of the General Post Office, Melbourne, and intended to be retained at tli at office until delivered, must contain in the address the soldier's number, and the name of his unit, and it must be superscribed '' To be left until called for." If this superscription is omitted the letter will be forwarded to the front at wihch the soldier's particular unit stationed.

About 9.30 this morning Mr W. Gregory left his horse and milkcart is Huia Street at the corner overlooking the Tiki Brewery. Mr Gregory left to supply some customers with milk, and the horse was feeding off the grass on the side of the bank. Apparently the animal, in moving along dragged the wheel of the cart up the bank, with the result that the cart overturned, the horse taking fright and bolting in the direction of Ilautapu Street, but was brought to a standstill by the fence which separates the road from the reserve. The accident was seen by some of the employees of the Tiki Brewery Co., Ltd. and they, with the assistance of some of Mr A. P. Fox's staff, helped Mr Gregory to right matters. The horse escaped injuries, and only damage done to the cart was the breaking of a splash board. The milk-cans were lying a short distance up the road, but very little milk was spilt.