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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 24 February 1917, Page 4

A nearly new piano is advertised for sale; the owner is leaving the district.

The team of Taihape bcwler.3 who went to Marton to attempt the capture of the Hnrn Cup, succeeded in returning witli the coveted trophy, which is now on view in Mr D. Ncagle's shoo window.

Many ballotte.d recruits evidently think that because they have a lot of land i'nd a lot of sheep they should be exempted 'from military service l , for that seems to be the burden of their song before the Military Service Board. These men should have Captain Walker on their track.

An appellant for exemption at the Military Service Board said he had four brothers, one of whom had gone to Australia and enlisted. The cue is being taken, for one appellant whose story is yet to be heord, says his three brothers have all enlisted in the Timbuctoo Lightfoots.

Capt Baldwin is deeply concerned about v. motor accident mentioned in the Military Court yesterday. Me particularly impressed upon the informant of the Court that he must attend at 10 o'clock this morning with a full and correct account of what had hapened.

"Neil McDougall seemed surprised to learn that being a British-born subject Ins naturalisation as a United .States ciiizen did not. prevent the Military Beard sending him into camp. He will probably be exempted through having lived too long, his years running into over the military age.

At the Military Court yesterday Terry Reardon uij the "hat trick," getting till tiro 27th April to go into camp, und Captain Baldwin thought he had made v good bargain. Perhaps he had: Terry has two brothers already in the trenches, and the other one was declared medically unfit. Captain Baldwin wished ail el her families were doing likewise, lie did not oppose the exemption. Advice has been received by Mrs. M. J. Kelland, of Taumarunui, of the death at the front of her third son, J. B. Kelland, one of the three brothers who went to the front. tie was a good all-round sporl and a crack horseman, and also showed abi a boxer. In this department of sport he won two championships in Auckland, and he was tin; Taumarunui representative at the New Zealand championship meetings. At his medical examination prior > enlisting, he is said to have been considered the most physically fit and perfect man to volunteer from Tauiuaruniii.

Out of 20 bakers in Auckland city and suburbs, 5 have enlisted.

In place of potatoes, cooked chestnuts are to be served out twice a week to the troops in France.

Women chainmakers in the Black Country, Staffordshire, long the worst paid of all women workers, are to share in war-time prosperity to the extent of an advance of 20 per cent, in their wages.

Owing to numerous enlistments and the further drain due to the ballot, the Bank of New Zealand has found it necessary to close several of its country branches for the remainder of the war period.

A ballotted reservist, who hails from Manga weitu, failed to answer his najno when his appeal was called on at the Military service Board sitting yesterday. A brother also appealing, informed the Board that a motor accident was the cause of the non-arival.

A prisoner named John Davidson, an ex-soldier, who was arrested in Falmerston on Thursday on a warrant from Christchurch, attempted to strangle himself with a bootlace in the ceils. Davidson, an ex - soldier, and Annie Brocker, who has been posing as man and wife, were arrested on a warrant for failing to appear as witnesses in certain anti-shouting cases in Christchurch.

A writer from Melbourne says recruiting sergeants axe using all the.r eloquence upon the youth passing \vitii deaf q&v along Swanston Street. Some of these men —nearly all returned heroes —are wonderfully simple in their earnest appeal. One lad gave a picturesque description of England as he saw the Homeland, and concluded with the words: "If you could see it. just once, my word, you would fight for it!"

The brothers C. L. Krecgher and R. E. Kreegher, who were charged at the Supreme Court, Palmerston, on Wednesday, with sheep stealing, were found guilty and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, with hard labour.

From an entertaining editorial in the Dannevirke News: —That Hastings "Liberals" should have selected Air. 11. lan Simson in preference to the lawyer knight is enough to make the late Hon. Robert McNab turn in his grave. It was enough to make Sir John Findlay, who was in Hastings, pack up his traps and return to Wellington.

Troubles which beset the path of an engineer in the country districts were somewhat graphically described by Mr. Mair, of Kangitikei, at Friday's session of the annual meeting of the New Zealand Society of Civil Engineers. It was during a discussion on the work of steam-shovels. "There is no doubt," he said, "that we arc up against the problem of labour, and men are now demanding 10s, 15s, and even up to a £1 a day. They are just the ordinary labouring men, who carry their swags, and with the wages they are getting now they get enough in a week or a fortnight to go on a jamboree. Back they come in a day or two, and by tie time they have shaken off the effects, and are in training to be able to do a decent day's work, they have accumulated enough money to go on another jamboree." And so it went on. Another speaker said the position to-day was clear; they were getting a lot less work done at the cost of more money. The only way out, he contended, was the use of machines in the hands of intelligent men.