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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 21 February 1917, Page 4

It is stated, says the Winton Record, that a district farmer has been called on to pay £6OO under the recent taxation. The sale of all his wool will not total this amount.

A Masterton man recently took a scrub-cutting contract (says the Age). Before the contract was completed he became ill. His wife set to work and in a few days finished the job.

The Grey River Arbus states that the result of the Medical Board’s sitting at Kumara last week was not very satisfactory. Out of 14 men who presented themselves, 13 proved unlit. The one who passed was the oldest one of the bunch.

One effect of the war is felt in the back country (says the Hawke’s Bay Herald). Owing to the scarcity of rabbiters, rabbits are now in evidence from the roadsides, where they have not been seen for many years.

Boys called at a Poverty Bay settler’s house the other day and offered a large lot of vegetables for sale at such a cheap rate that the lady of the house purchased the whole of them. The husband on his arrival home, was very pleased with the purchase his wife had made, but, to his surprise, when he went to do his milking next morning he found all his vegetables had gone, and when he arrived home he recognised some of the marrows and pumpkins that he had been watch ing grow for months past. A pleasant atmosphere permeated one of the sittings of the Appeal Board at Haw era. A line stamp of young man was called, who had appealed on all grounds. He cheerfully admitted! hat he did not object because he was not a reservist, nor because be was a religious objector. “What are the grounds of hardship?” “No hardship at all,” was the astonishing reply, “I’m ready to go to fight when I’m wanted.” “Then go to Major Cox,” said the chairman, “you’re the man he wants.” Appellant went gleefully to the major, who told him to come up for medical examination on Tuesday, appellant remarking that it would be a day cut. As he left the Court someone volunteered the information that he had 11 brothers at the front.

The Wellington Borough Engineer says that old scrap iron finds ready market at £ll 16s per ton. Owing to the small amount of stock being received at the Taihape Freezing Works, sixteen men were paid off on Saturday last. To-day being Ash Wednesday, services are’ being held morning and evening in St. Margaret’s, Church of England. This evening the service commences at half-past seven o’clock. Speaking of the speed in which Japanese shipbuilders turn out their tonnage, Captain J. Gibson, of Seattle, stated that in one Nippon yard the keel was laid and four months later the ship was built and in Seattle with a cargo Reuter’s correspondent at The Hague reports that in the last three months there were 8200 convictions in Holland for smuggling. 7 Stricter measures to guard the frontier are co be introduced. “How many men have you in your Department?” asked Captain Baldwin, military representative in the Third Military Service Board, of a witness. “Fifteen, but some of them are women,” was the reply. On March 6 the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co Ltd., will hold a stock sale at Raurimu. As will he seen from the advertisement in another column the entries of sheep and cattle are remarkably good, both as regards numbers and description. In another column is an announcement- from Collinson and Cunningharae, Ltd. of Palmerston North, relative to their preliminary exhibit of millinery and costumes for autumn. A steady, reliable man can find employment at Kubtze’s Main Trunk Brewery, Kuku Street. Deserters under the Military Service Act are gradually being rounded' up and sent straight into camp. A resident of Ormondville, called up under section 35, who failed to report in the prescribed time, was arrested in Dannevirke on Saturday, handed over to the Defence Department, and taken to Trentham Camp.

A man named Robert Howie, who was employed by Mr. Kilkolly, of Mataroa, as a bullock-driver, sustained a compond fracture of his arm on Friday in quite a simple manner. He was unyoking the animal when it swung round suddenly, throwing Mr. Howie with considerable force against the side of the waggon, breaking his arm.

It is officially announced that the Goupil Gallery, in Regent-street, London, is not open to enemy aliens, “conscientious objectors,” pro-Ger-mans, advocates of an immediate or inconclusive peace, nor to persons engaged in any work or propaganda the success of which would “discourage our friends and hearten our enemies.” s An Anzac, in describing Hie shattering roar of massed ' artillery in France, says: “You may shout at the top of your voice to the man alongside you for something, and he takes no notice of you; and, when in turn he bursts his lungs trying to say something to you, you look upon him and wonder why he is making grimaces. In the periodical lulls you find yourself a deaf mute.” The Minister for Internal Affairs stated that the Government had received further instructions from the Imperial authorities that no women are to be allowed to leave New Zealand if they will enter the danger zone and that in consequence of this the issue of passports will be still further restricted, and none whatever will he granted until further advice is received.

The patriotic spirit of British women in this time of national crisis is very finely illustrated by the sample of their shipbuilding which was recently at Port Chalmers. The vessel in question is a new, cargo carrier of about 7000 tons, which was built on the Clyde. The hull was built principally by women who, attired in masculine costume, did the plating, not hesitating to mount stages and clinch rivets on the vessel’s top sides. The males employed consisted of boys and old men above the war age.

A story coinos rrom Mt. Peel district which shows (says the Timaru Herald) what a man who is anxious to make headway can do. It relates that the lessee of a small grazing run on Mt. Peel, recently acquired ,this year had 1800 sheep. He is a bachelor. and his own shepherd and housekeeper. He this year shore all -his own sheep and baled the wool, besides cooking for himself. He fetched in a “cut” of sheep every hue morning, and never shore less than eighty a day. The man who gave tins information, acquired from the energetic settler’s neighbours, adds that this small sheopcwner last veer <rpvc all his war profits on wool to patriotic funds.