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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 218, 20 October 1916, Page 4

All beards are banished from the ranks of the French army, according to a recent order.

The orchard tax is expected to produce about £2500. The money will be expended in developing overse trade.

The Italian Minister for War has rigorously forbidden blasphemy on the part of the soldiers. It will be regarded as an infraction of discipline, and the offender will be punished.

At Rangiora, E. R. Good a Jusice of the Peace and a former Mayor of the town, was charged with receiving £3 in money and dividing the amount into two separate amounts of 30s each, and issuing two separate receipts with intent to evade stamp duty thereon. Good was convicted and fined 40s on the first charge, and 20s on the second charge, both with costs.

A girl to assist is wanted in the Railway Refreshment Rooms, one who has just left school is preferred.

The retail price of butter in Dunedin was reduced from 1/8 to 1/7 per lb yesterday.

A handsome trophy is given by Mes srs Collinson and Gifford for the lucky winner of the best decorated perambulator.

A smart lad to work in a cordial factory is advertised for by Mr J. H. Johnston, Tui street. Application should bo made to the factory.

Mr J. H. Johnson notifies that he has full stocks of firewood, coal and coke at his yard in Tui street, from whence all orders will be promptly filled.

Mr Bates reports: Winds moderate to strong, and freshening The weather appears likely to be cloudy and unsettled, with rain following. Barometer falling.

All farmers arc earnestly requested to attend a meeting to be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on Wednesday next (sale day) at 11 a.m. The question of stock auctioneers’ charges is to be discussed at the meeting.

Prussian guardsmen who surrendered at Maurepas assert that Prince Eitel Frederick, the Kaiser’s second son, only just escaped capture when the French dropped a barrier of fire behind the town.

The reason the French and the British have been permitted to advance at all is that there are so many German soldiers on holiday at present, said Miss Jenny Valliere, a German actress, to a New York interviewer the other day.

A meeting of the Taihape Athletic Club is to be held in the Secretary’s Office, Gretna Hall, this (Friday) evening, at 8 p.m. The business of the meeting is to make preliminary arrangements for the gathering on New Year’s Day.

Writes a business man from Montreal: “Here in Canada I thikn we all look at what New Zealand has done with a sort of affectionate envy. Perhaps o>ie result of the war may be to promote in each unit of the Empire generous emulation of the finest things that have been done by the other units. If only this might re suit!”

Evidence of the progness of Mataroa lies in the fact that a thoroughly up-to-date coachbuilding and blacksmithing business is to be established there in the very near futune. Mr J. Joyce, a man of considerable experience as a master man, lias secured premises, and is now selecting stock and plant in readiness for a start at the earliest possible moment.

As a result of police inspection, the licensees of two small hotels at Pahiatua, Edward John Knapmann and Frederick Paget Jones, were each fined £2O, the minimum penalty, for hav ing certain labels on whisky bolt’cm not containing that particular brand. The defendants pleaded guilty. They were allowed a month in which to pay the fine.

At Gavey’s florist’s shop in Station street there is this afternoon a newlyarrived consignment of choice pot. plants, cut flowers, and seedlings of various popular flowering plants. Mr Gavoy has also kitchen garden plants, including all vegetables most largely planted, he has also a stock of very reliable seeds, both for kitchen and flowen garden.

Many Taihape residents are unaware that only parcels of 11 lb and under can be sent to soldiers abroad, and many people after putting cakes in tins and having the tins sealed, have had to open the tin and take out a portion of the cake to bring the parcel within the weight limit. All people should weigh the tins and contents before taking them to a plumber to be sealed.

“There is no doubt that the prison labour of New Zealand could be utilised with much greater advantage ro the well-being of the community than it is at present,” said Mr. C. M. Luke at the meeting of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. The remark Avas occasioned by reason of a request from the Rotorua Chamber, seeking co-operation in the matter of the employment of prison labour in making and maintaining arterial roads. The matter was deferred until the next meeting of the Council.

The Threshing Machine Owners Association to-day unanimously agreed ‘‘that this meeting recommend the committees of the different districts to make an advance on the present rates of threshing of 4-d per bushel, on 5s per hour, and that a Avar bonus be paid to men of 2s per thousand, or 2d per hour when threshing by the hour, this resolution to remain in operation during the continuation of the war and for six months afterwards.’' Last year Id per hour above the aAvard rate (Is 3d) was paid, or Is 4d per hour, so that the Avar bonus would mean that the men will receive Is Gd per hour.