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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 219, 22 November 1916, Page 4

War pensions and allowances granted to date total 4700 of an annual va*ue of £234,414, from which should be deducted 634 cancellations, totalling about £31,000.

A French economic mission to Rome has arranged for the formation of a Pranco-Italian JB'ank of Finance, Commerce, Industries, and Shipbuilding, to encourage exports in aid of small businesses in Italy and France.

“The flower of our race is now In the Army, and every day exacts from it a toll of heroic dead. Let us who are at home prove ourselves in conduct and spirit worthy of the brave men who are fighting our battles,” says the “Daily Chronicle.”

The flimsy construction of the soldiers’ pay-book was the subject of a complaint made at the meeting of the Advisory Board of the Patriotic Societies at Wellington on Thursday. One member stated that the book very often came to pieces inside a month. It was liable to very rough usage, and therefore should be made extremely strong. It was decided to place the matter before the Minister for Defence.

Reuter’s correspondent at French headquarters says that the storming of the Verdun forts proves that the resisting power of modern fortifications is greater than was supposed. Antwerp was no criterion. The German 16-inch guns never pierced the massive roofs of Douaumont or Vaux, notwithstanding that the bombardment was ten times heavier than at Antwerp. The French also furiously shelled the forts, and their shells only pierced the armour of each once. Verdun forts justified the builders and the strategists.

The regular monthly meeting of the Wanganui Education Board wilj be held to-morrow. The owner of a sum of money lost in Taihape can recover by describing the loss at this office and paying for advertisement. Heavy snow is general in Britain and on the Continent. Trains in Germany are snowbound, and there Is a heavy fall at Florence, in Italy. In the Wanted columns of this issue a bargain in land seven miles from Te Kuiti, among the best land in the King Country, is offered for sate.

Messrs Fred. Pirani, H. Mclntyre and J. Joblin, members of the Wanganui Education Board, attended, a public meeting at Kimbolton yesterday in connection with school matters.

War pensions and allowances granted to date in New Zealand total 4700, of an annual value of £234,414, from which should be deducted 634 cancellations totalling about £31,000.

Some real “snips” in land are advertised in this issue. All those looking for cheap properties should read a notification under the heading of “Cheap land in the King Country.”

“I don’f wish to appear as an alarmist, ’ ’ said the Hon G. W. Eussell to a reporter, "but there is evidently a tendency for cercbro-spinal meningitis to increase outside the military camps.”

The report of the Italian International Institute of Agriculture states that the world’s wheat supply w r ill be exhausted in 1917 if the harvest is again a failure and unless Russian stocks are released.

The signal for a general rising of natives in J*va, an abortive German plot, w*as small pieces of red paper, scattered about the country, with blue pieces for a general meeting and yellow' scraps as a warning that things had gone wrong.

During the ‘ ‘ show r , ’ ’ writes a British gunner in the big push, our guns were almost red hot. Steam came off them when cold water was thrown over and into them after every twenty’ rounds, and they were still hot twenty-four, hours later.

Yesterday, Mr. Forde, of Ruanui Station, received a cable from Bombay, informing him that his son, Lieut. Forde, of the Dorset Regiment, had arrived at Bombay, where he has beer invalided from Mesopotamia with typhoid fever.

A cable message received from the Rev. Father McMenamin states that he had received the sum of £IOO recently cabled Home on behalf of the Catholics of Palmerston for the New Zealanders in No .1 and 2 Stationary Hospitals in Londop.

A man of military age suspected at Liverpool of evading military turned out to be one of the stewards of the liner. Appam, who had been liberated by the American authorities on giving his parole that he w-ould not take up arms against Germany.

A General Army Order issued, In Xew Zealand directs that men who have been wounded at the front are to wear a short strip of gold braid on the left sleeve of the service jacket to denote the fact —a strip for each wound. 'A similar order has been made in England.*

A meeting of ladies will be held ni th e Technical School on Friday afternoon net, at 3 o’clock sharp, to make arrangements for afternoon tea at the school display in aid of the Red Cross funds, to be held on December 14. Anyone interested in this laudable object is earnestly requested to attend.

The Military Service Appeal Board has concluded a two days’, sitting at Hawera. Several cases were dealt with. One was dismissed, two were allowed, and the others adjourned for periods of from one to five months to allow appellants the opportunity of carrying over the busy farming season or arranging their business affairs.

'lt appears that goods which were manufactured in Germany arc still be ing sold in Dunedin, states the “Otago Daily Times.” A lady who visited one of the leading fancy goods shops recently purchased a doll, but she was much disgusted on returning home when an examination revealed the fact that the article bore a label showing that it was German make.

The ant. takes rank over the honeybee in Scriptural commendation as a bustler, but the modern si> e cialised bee directs his activities into commercial channels in a way that loaves the ant away behind (says an American writer). Professor M. B. Waite, 1 ncle Sam’s bee chief, covered 2586 apple flowers with gauze netting before they unfolded, and secured only three apples from the experiment. Other apple blossoms, on which bees worked unhindered, set a normal quantity of fruit.