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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 February 1917, Page 4

I The 24th keinforcements, now ■in camp, will go on extended leave at the end of this week. Mr. E. Gordon, who is going Into camp shortly, offers his 7 h.p. Excelsior motor cycle, with coach-built side car, for sale. The cycle is in perfect order. During the sitting of the Military Service Appeal Board in Napier last week, the chairman, Mr. J. \v. Poyn ton, S.M., remarked that very few appeals were the result of shirking. Most of the appellants had good grounds for appealing, though in most cases there was not sufficient ground to allow total exemption. Count Reventlow, the Frightful, and the Socialist weekly, Vorwaerts, have been exchanging typical Hun journalistic pleasantries. Reventlow, it appears, has been attributing certain views on peace to Scheidemann, the Rader of the Socialist pro-war majority in the Reichstag. Vorwaerts retorts that in circulating such statements Reventlow is a deliberate liar. "We have called him a liar,” says Vorwaerts, “and he has not refuted the accusation. Meantime., he keeps on lying. We suppose it is as useless to expect Reventlow to tell the truth as it is to tell a silkworm not :.u spin.” That there is still a big amount of wasted energy, despite the shortage of labour and the talk of national con- j tr °l. is admitted, and there is probably no more absurd position existing ! than that in connection with the sheep industry (says an exchange). While the Railway Department is appealing for exemption for its firemen and drivers and others, sheep arc being bought in Hawke’s Buy within a few miles of Hastings, Tomoana, and Wha katu works, and sent through to Wellington for slaughter there, while on the other hand sheep from the Wairarapa are sent to the North British and Hawke’s Bay Freezing Company’s works at the Western .Spit, Napier, to meet their doom. Absurd as it seems on the face of it, it is all the more so when one considers that all meat is commandeered by .the fir r >- and that the same price is puiu ah roundl

At the last sitting of the Military Medical Board in Taihape 45 men presented themselves for examination. Owing the scarcity of small coins in Prussia, steps have been taken to issue one and two pfennig pieces of iron. The Farmers’ Red Cross Sheep Art Union tickets are having a very wide sale. Recently Mr. Peyton received an order for a number of books from Australia. The new issue of the Almanack ce Gotha publishes a list of German nobles fallen in the war, which includes 25S counts, 567 barons, and 1465 members of lower orders of nobility. A motherless lassie, 12 years of age. needs the guidance of a woman, she will assist in housework or mind children in return for keep. Her father will find her in clothing, and also pay for music lessons.

One of the cases in which a pension was granted by the War Pensions Board last week was that of a captain’s widow with six children. She was allowed £ll7 for herself and £ll7 in all for the six children—a total of £234 a year.

The Wanganui Education Board notify that, in compliance with the request of the Marton School Committee, and with the sanction of the Minister of Education, it has been decided to bring the clause relating to compulsory attendance at technical and continuation classes into force cn 2nd March, 1917.

A good story of a wounded soldier who rose in a crowded omnibus to offer his seat’to a lady is told in a London paper. “No, thank you,” she said, “I should not take your seat, since you have been wounded.” “Madam,” he answered, “I Have been wounded three times, and should be wounded a fourth time if you did not take it.”

The fall of Tabora, the inland capital of German East Africa, Avas tne cause of general rejoicing among the natives, whose common cry was “Tne people of fifteen have gone away." May they never return.” The “fifteenrefers to the number of lashes, the minimum given by the Germans for trivial offences.

According to advices received in London, the German authorities in Schleswig-Holstein are offering to farmers and other employers Jb'elgians, both men and women, as servants. The ages of these Belgians vary from 18 to 36 years, and tne rate of pay asked for by the German authorities is 30 per cent, below the rate current in the district. The employers have to pay the authorities half of the travelling expenses, but they are entitled to deduct that sum from the wages of the unhappy Belgians. A Dunedin boy in camp in England (writing to his parents) says: They are using every man, woman and kid that they can here in England, and yet there are peopio in New Zealand who reckon Eng.and should ha\imore soldiers, and v. :o still believe that all the working people are yet on strike. The war i- the main indu. tiy here now. 'Vhon a : an goes aw w to the war here ho go;,n Is per chiv, and his w/i about 3s a week, but she isn’t allowed to live a life of ease on her money; no fear, they catch her and send her to the munition factories, where she is examinee: by a doctor, and, if she is passed as fit, she is fixed for the rest ofthe war.

Just prior to the breakfast hour on Sunday Wellington streets were invaded by many householders armed with milk-jugs on the way to dairies. In many cases disappointed faces accompanied empty jugs after the dairies had been visited. The search for milk contiued till mid-day. It is a long time since so many people with jugs were abroad in the early morn. It appears this fact was due to a shortage of milk. Empty jugs in yard safes and at door-steps gave first news of the shortage, and when the owners sought tlioir filling from dairies they were somewhat put back to learn that only regular customers could be supplied.

At the Supreme Court at Palmerston North, James Robert Allerby was found guilty of incest, and in committing accused, Mr. Justice Edwards said he had been convicted of one of the most horrible crimes it was possible to conceive. Prisoner had set himself to work to ruin his own child and the child of his deceased wife, and in doing so his action was contrary to nature aifcT repulsive to any man of decency and feeling. Whatever happened, the young must bo protected and that they must be protected against their own parents showed a particularly disgusting condition of our modern society. The sentence of the Court was that prisoner be imprisoned for a term of seven years.