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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 21 November 1916, Page 4

An advertiser wants to buy a good separator, of about 30 gallons capacity.

Two good cows, guaranteed sound and quiet; also three horses broken rn, are advertised for sale by Mr. A. Moghan.

The Cambridge university bus conferred a doctorship on Mr Massey. There was a large attendance, mostly of khaki-clad men. Mr Massey and Sir Thomas Mackenzie were tendered a luncheon at Cjueen 's College. The New Zealand tourists were to depart for Scotland yesterday.

The Taihape Athletic Club will hold a monster picnic and Gala day on the Recreation Ground, Taihape, on New Year's Day. The whole of the proceeds are to go in aid of the local Red Cross Society's funds. A preliminary announcementxappears in another column. The Borough accounts at last meeting stood as follows: District Fund Account, dr. £3590 3s lid; Interest Account, dr. £370 17s lid; Temporary Loans Account, dr. £140; Loan Account, No 1, £670 18s; Loan Account No 3, dr, £197 0s sd; Oval Doman Account, cr., £35 Is sd.

A lengthy and rather important communication on Flies was received by the Borough Council at its last meeting, from the Health Department. As it deals rather exhaustively on a subject in which every burgess and others should be deeply interested, the full text will be published in to-mor-row's issue. Farmers in the Kawke's Bay district are troubled, strange to say, as a result of the abnormal growth of grass on their land, states the Herald. The difficulty lies in the fact, says the Herald, that the grass is getting away from the sheep and as cattle are hard to obtain to keep the grass down the sheep are not thriving too well: It is perhaps not generally known among townsfolk that sheep do not thrive nearly so well on grass that crows high and thick as do on fields that show a normal covering. In seme parts the grass is over two feci high. The sheep grazing there do not appreciate this; it is "too much of a go:>j thing" for them.

K In the Privy Council, the appeal of Gane v. the Gillies Milking Machine company was dismissed.

Up to November 15 the sale of War Loan certificates throughout the Dominion realised in all rather more than £1,113,000.

The tender of Mr P. Kearins (£lO 15s 6d) for grazing rights on the Oval Domain for one year has been accepted by the Taihape Borough Council.

Mr J. Murphy publicly expresses his thanks to Dr McDiarmid and Dr. Sinclair, also to the staff of the Ruanui Hospital, for th e excellent treatment he received while a patient in the hospital.

Letter mails for Expeditionary Forces will close at Wellington on Saturday, November 25, at 8 p.m. Newspaper and parcel mails for Expeditionary Forces will close on Thursday, November 23, at noon.

On Mr J. M. Thomson's farm, in the Wakanui district, there can now be seen a paddock of wheat in full ear, and it promises to be a very heavy yield (says the Christchurch Press). In an adjacent paddock another crop of wheat is just bursting into ear.

There are about 3000 members in the New Zealand Fire Brigade Association, and of these 900 have enlisted and are now on active service with the Dominion's forces in France. Of this number 80 have been killed and two are prisoners of war. Two hundred of these have been wounded in battle.

Yesterday 25 boys of the schools in the Wanganui Education Board's district went into camp on Mr Henson's farm at Mt .Stewart, for the purpose of conducting shearing operations. The boys arc selected from those taking the agricultural course at the schools. Mr O. A. Banner will be in charge. About nine days will be spent at the work.

There is a growing feeling against the action of the railway authorities, writes a correspondent of a Southern paper,, in issuing cheap fares for race meetings, while relatives of soldiers who go to Wellington to see their sons, husbands and brothers departing for the seat of war have to pay full fare. This is a matter that the patriotic a\ithorities might see into.

The returning soldiers on the Maheno, expected to reach New r Zealand about December 14, number 372 officers, men and nurses. Eight of the men are Maoris. Taihape is represented on the Maheno by Gunner Eric Mitchell Lake, W. H. Austin Nieholls,- Thos. J. O 'Connor, S. Mcßride, and Sergeant William R. Bennett. Mr Chas. E. McIntyre, of Ohakune, is also aboard.

Like other local bodies, the Tauranga County Council has been asked by the Rotorua Chamber of Commerce to cooperate with that body in urging the Government to utilise prison labour in making and maintaining the main arterial roads of the Dominion. It has consented to do so, a Tauranga councillor suggesting that the interned Germans should be put to.the same work.

The Government has received a cabled reply from Premier Massey in which he conveys the terms of an amended offer on behalf of the Imperial Government for the purchase of New Zealand wool The terms of the offer are at present confidential, but they will be communicated to the wool growers at another conference to be held at Wellington on Wednesday next at 11 o'clock.

"I may tell you something which the majority of you have not heard before," said the Hon. G. W. Russell at Christchurch, "and that is this: Our Motherland and her fair Dominions, even long before the War, have been menaced by tli e foreign spies within them. Early in the war there was a motor-car accident iii France, in which some famous spies played a .prominent part, and on them, do you know, there were found plans of every fort in New Zealand. We may truly thank God for the protection that our incomparable navy is able to afford us."

Word has been received that certain meat-freezing companies in the Howke 's Bay district were paying their slaughtermen at the old rate of 27s 6d per 100 for sheep, and stated that they knew nothing of the war bonus of 2s (id that had been arranged for. The position is that, following upon the award of the wan bonus by the Arbitration Court in Wellington, assessors for other companies agreed to recommend a similar provision in other parts of the district. Apparently the companies are refusing to make the extra payment until the recommendation has been endorsed by the Court.

A meeting of the Hamilton branch of the Builders, Contractors ana General Labourers' Union was held on Saturday. The following resolution was carried without dissent: "That members of the union deeply appreciate the manner in which Mr Young M.P., dealt with the Scott victimisation case. This drastic method of inflicting hardships on working men and their families has become very prevalent in some big industrial centres, and this branch considers a better state of things would come to exist if the attitude adopted by Mr Young were also taken up by other members of Parliament."

An advertiser lias two furnished bedrooms to let, which would suit an elderly gentleman.

The late Hon J. Duthie's estate at Lower Hutt, worth about £30,000, has been sold to Mr W IT. George, of the Economic, Wellington.

A "Gazette" Extraordinary was issued on Saturday containing an Order-in-Council prohibiting the export of wool from the Dominion to any destination without the consent of the Min ister for Customs.

The Borough Council has decided to grant permission to any returned soldier who is a resident in the Borough, to cut the cocksfoot grass-seed growing on the roads in the Borough during the present season .

The Mnnawatu Cbunty .."(including the Foxton Borough and the Rongotea town district) has increased by 195 in population in the last five years. Not very much! Why Has land aggregation got anything to do with it?

The Dunedin correspondent of the "Lyttelton Times" states that the retail section of the Otago Employers' Association decided by a substantial majority to close from 1 p.m. on the Saturday till the Wednesday following during both Christmas and New Year weeks.

The Borough Council received a letter from the secretary of the Taihape Athletic Club, applying for the use of the Recreation Ground for the Ist January next, to hold a gathering on similar line to that which was held last New Year's Day. The necessary permission was granted.

The military authorities at Home are wondering what to do with a man 21 years of age. who is Bft 2ins high and is still growing. His weight is 27 st. In boots he takes size 224. Three ordinary beds have to be placed side by side for him to sleep in. He can span two octaves on a piano, and comfortably light a cigarette at a street lamp.

The trout fishing in the Rotorua lake district so far this season is particularly good . The Hot Lakes Chronicle reports that trouting in Lake Tarawera, Mrs Pepper and party made a record catch this season, landing no fewer than So trout in good condition. The average weight ran between three and four pounds, the heaviest weighing* ten pounds.

The annual Methodist Synod (Wellington district) will be held at toe Methodist Church, Lower Hutt, this week. It opened with a ministerial session at 10 o'clock this morning, the full Synod meeting at 2 o'clock. It is probable that the Synod will last until Thursday. Several matters of importance will be discussed.

"Private was arrested yesterday and tried by court-martial on a charge of desertion. He was found guilty and sentenced to be shot. The sentence was duly performed at 4.45 o'clock this morning, sunrise," read an extract from British orders issued in France and included in recent orders published at Trentham recently.

One or two late-comers at an early sitting of the Wellington Supreme Court on Saturday caused the Chier Justice to indulge in a brief homily en the growing evil of unpunctuality. "Why," His Honour exclaimed, "the other morning I saw operatives going into a*factory five minutes late. I don't know what the world is coming to."

Returned soldiers are discussing the matter of forming a Returned Soldiers' Corps, with the object of offering its services to the Defence Department. A meeting of the Wellington Returned Soldiers' Association is to be held next Monday evening to give further consideration to this and other matters affecting men who have come back from the front.