NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 208, 11 October 1916, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND NEWS.

OUR HOSPITAL SHIPS. BRITISH ADMIRALTY'S THANKS. MESSAGES OP APPRECIATION. WELLINGTON, Oct. 9. His Excellency the Governor has received a telegram from the Secretary of State for the Colonies announcing that the Maheno will follow me Australian hospital ship Kanowna, which will arrive in New Zealand about December 15th. The following communication has been received from the Commander-in-Chief of the Brtish Forces in France and the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty in respect of me work done by the Maheno and the Marama: “The Commander-in-Chief directs me to convey to you and through yon to the directors and all concerned under them, his high appreciation of their hard work and the efficiency ox their arrangements for dealing with the medical aspect cf the present slt-

nation.” “The attention (f the Lords Cum raissioners of tli3 Admiralty has been drawn to the excellent work performed in connection with the conveyance of the wounded, and their disembarkation at Southampton, and their removal from that port. Their Lordships desire to express their appreciation of the services rendered during this time by the personnel of the hospital ships, the volunteer workers, and the others who contributed to the success of the work. They request that all concerned may be notified accordingly.”

His Excellency adds that since the New Zealand hospital ships Maheno and Marama were first despatched from these shores, they have carried approximately 32,000 sick and wouncred. “Men cannot be got for love or money,” was the statement made by a member of a sawmilling firm at the Southland Land Board meeting, waen called upon to show cause why the firm’s rights over sawmilling property should not be cancelled. He stated that the major portion of the sawmill workers in Southland were young men and as they had enlisted there only remained the old men, who were not prepared to go into the bush and en-‘ gage in the arduous duties incidental to sawmilling. As far as their mill was concerned, operations had ceased for some time, and the £4,000 expended by the firm on mill, plant, tramway, etc., was non-interest bearing. The firm were as anxious as the Board to have the bush felled and the timber marketed, but the circumstances mentioned rendered this impossible. ASIATIC EGGS. RESTRICTION ASKED FOR. WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. A deputation from the New Zealand Poultry Association waited on the Minister for Agriculture (the Hon. W. MacDonald) and urged the necessity for restricting the importation of Asiatic eggs in bulk. It was urged that the use of such eggs was distinctly against the Pure Food Act, and if continued would seriously menace the whole poultry industry of the Dominion, on the development of which many thousands of pounds had been expended. The Minister promised to go carefully into the Avhole question, adding that his desire was to improve the position of the poultry industry in every possible way. aggregation of land. A DANNEVIRKE PROTEST. WELLINGTON, Oct. 10. The Dannevirke Chamber o f Commerce passed a resolution calling the attention of the Government to the extent to which the aggregation of farming lands is reducing the population in many country districts, urging it pass and enforce legislation to prevent the aggregation of separate farms where each original farm is of sufficient area to provide adequate means of livelihood to one farmer and his family. The Chamber also passed a resolution urging the restriction of the export of white pine timber; also to take steps to preserve all available white pine forests.