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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 28 October 1916, Page 4

The next meeting of the Wellington Land Board has been fixed to take -place on .November 28. The latest report from the Returned Soldiers’ Department shows that there are 5739 names on the register, 4622 of whom are disposed of, 541 are under action, and 373 are not ready for action. Employment is wanted for 175 men of whom 5 are Wellington men. Staff Sergeant-Major Tuckey has received the following telegram from the Area office: —“Impress upon your Patriotic Committee that their incividual and collective efforts are earnestly solicited to enable us to obtain men for the 22nd and 23rd. Leave at Christmas will be given to all men o* these drafts.”

After referring to the “splendid balance of trade” and recent improvements in the same, the “ Trade Review” says: “According to present indications our exports for the coming season should show further increase, but owing to the high cost of goods imports may also increase. However, a good balance appears assured, and consequently a good supply of funds flowing into the Dominion,”

In returning thanks to Hon. Dr. McNab for his address at the returned soldiers’ social in Palmerston, Mr. Maurice Gohen referred to the Pact that the Minister had been delayed by the train not running to time, and said he hoped that in a few years these dif Acuities of transit would bo overcome. He looked forward to the time when they would have a"fast packet service by sea from Wellington to Fox ton, ant* then an express or electric tram from that port tc Palmerston.

At the Three Stars to-night “The Submarine Pirate” will be screened at 8 and “The Coward” at 9 o’clock. The former will be shown at the matinee to-day.

Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward are pressing for a reduction of freights on wool, hemp, meat, and mineral produce. They have good prospects of success.

Arrangements have been made by the Wellington City Council with the Department of Internal Affairs for the whole of the trout coming from Lake Taupo to be disposed of at the municipal fish market.

A man named Frederick Pratt, a resident of Ngaio, Wellington, dropped dead on the road near the railway station at New Plymouth, where he was employed on the new A.M.P. buildings. He leaves a widow and family of six, of whom two sons are at the front.

At the meeting of the Wellington Land Board on Thursday, the Commissioner reported that six dichargcd soldiers who had been allotted sections on September 28, now cannot gee their way to retain them, and it was therefore resolved to cancel their applications.

A youth was committed for sentence yesterday for destroying eight postal packets at Onchunga. The lad was a telegraph messenger, and had been given a letter-carrier’s duty. He stated that as he had been wet through for several days running he tore the letters up so that he would not have to deliver them.

The Railway Department notifies that holiday excursion tickets will be issued from Taihape and intermediate stations to Palmerston on the Ist and 2nd November, and by the 6 am. train on 3rd November; also from Frankton, Mataroa and intermediate stationg on October 31 and November 1 and 2, all ticcts available for return until November 11. Further particulars may bo had from railway stations.

Speaking to a reporter of the ‘ ‘ Poverty Bay Herald” recently, a Gisborne farmer remarked that it was not generally known that eels migrate in large numbers. This, however, was a fact. An instance had come under his notice on the flats, where the young eels, from two to five inches in length, had left a running stream in shoals, crawling through the grass to surmount a waterfall four or five feet in height.

The Wellington Wool Brokers’ Association, as representing the woolgrowers of the district, recently made a strong protest to the oveseas shipping companies in respect to the increase of freights on wool, together with readjustments of other charges adversely affecting the interests of growers. The replies received from the shipping companies concerned are not considered entirely satisfactory answers to the various points raised, and further action will probably result.

The question of the validity or otherwise of the Order-in-Council recently gazetted to give effect to the Board of Trade’s scheme for controlling local butter prices and compensat ing local butter suppliers for the difference between the price thus fixed and the export price of butter, is to he argued before judges at the Supreme Court to-day. Mr. M. Myers will appear on behalf of the butter trade, and the Solicitor-General (Mr. J. W. Salmoud K.C.) will represent the Crown.

The Government has received notice from the British Ambassador at Tokio that a Japanese mission has been established for the purpose of visiting various British possessions in order to make inquiries as to the market for Japanese merchandise and other conditions of trade. |The Commissioner appointed to visit New Zealand is Mr. Yoshio Udo, who is an expert in agriculture and commerce. He was timed to leave Yokohama on September 2, on the steamer Tango Maru, and is how in Australia.

The indifference of parents in the education of their children has been remarked upon on various occasions by educationists. It is agreed that Germany has out-distanced the British in trade, manufacture, arts, and sciences purely through the superior educational equipment given to her young people. 'lt used to be a saying with old-time parents, “learn all you can while you are young,” when play or loafing around was preferred to the building up of studious habits, .sew young people are left to do very much as they like and parents do not realise that their children grow up Ignorant as compared with children of the middle and upper classes in the country of our arch-enemy. 1° l - liS ,ssue Messrs Hemingway and Robertson have an announcement that should be of interest to those ‘who desire to improve their chances in life.