The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917.

Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 1 March 1917, Page 4

The Taihape Daily Times AND WAIMARINO ADVOCATE

THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 1917.

(With which is incorporated The Taihape Post and Waimarino News).

In the Magistrate’s Court at Hawera on Tuesday three Territorials, for failing to attend parades, were each fined £5, in default 20 days’ military detention. On March 27 a Dominion conference of freezing works employees is to be held in Wellington to consider the question of the amalgamation of the various unions in the industry. According to an official report, 1200 Indians from the Canadian reserves •have enlisted for active service in the war. Indians at the front, it is said, have proved themselves excellent riflemen and possessed of great pov, ers of endurance.

The Tiratu block, near Dannevirke, the survey of which has just been completed, will be offered for selection to discharged soldiers at the end of the year. The block comprises some 5727 acres, mostly first-class land.

“I firmly believe that in our domestic legislation we should without delay enact laws that will send to the surgeon, not to the ja ler, each beast In man’s clothing vho endangers r. child cr a young woman *' said the Rev A. C. La wry, in a ■ course of his address before iho Methodist -Conference. “We should make it imperative that a clean bill of h'.'-hh bo produced before a marriage license can he ob■amed .anc a strict - -re’ ovr'ht. to he exercised . v ■■ •; 1 m v,es. .seine of w 1 n ;..*)? for the an- r y* 'l'/i, C •'

Owing to pressure on our space the leader and other articles are unavoidably held over.

A cable message this morning states that the London Morning Post has increased its price to 2d a copy.

A child’s bangle, lost on the Show Ground yesterday, is advertised for.

A married couple wants situation on a farm or station in the Taihape district.

A troop train will pass through Taihape on Sunday morning between S and 9 o'clock, from Auckland to Wellington.

The Borough electrical engineer advertises in this issue that electric power will be entirely cut off on Sunday next to enable a thorough overhauling of the electric plant.

Messrs H. D. Bennett and Go’s business, from today, will henceionn trade under the title of H. D. Bennett Limited, it having been registered as a limited liability company.

It does not seem to be generally known that owners of motor cycles must notify the authorities when machines change hands, but such is the law. We would remind our readers of the address by the Rev, J. E. Parsons in the Presbyterian Hall this evening ar 8 o’clock. There will also be musical and other items rendered during the evening. John Edward Mortimer of Auckland, who had been twice bankrupt, and had twice assigned his estate, was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment yesterday for six breaches of the Bankruptcy Act.

German prisoners recently taken on the western front have been found to he wearing uniforms made of a fabric consisting of 40 per cent, cotton, 40 per cent, paper fibfe, and 20 per - cent, shoddy.

“I am not prepared to say that the manufacture of perambulators is an essential industry,” said counsel appearing for an appellant in that line of business at the sitting of the Third Military Service Board at Wellington. “Perhaps so, replied the Chairman, but the filling of them may be.”

An interesting reference to the telephone was made by Mr. R. W. Holmes at the annual meeting- of the Society of Civil Engineers in Wellington. “The telephone,” he said, “is more partial to the Maori language than to the English, as the Maori is able to converse over a long distance faulty line which would be quite useless to an Englishman. The terminal vowel sounds of all Maori syllables and words are evidently easier to transmit than the mixed terminals of English words.”

An Awapuni Maori, cycling home from Longburn about 11 o’clock on Tuesday night (says the Palmerston Times) was suddenly confronted by two armed masked men who, threatening to shoot, told him to dismount. They then made him turn all his pockets inside out. Luck was lacking, for the native brother had neither purse nor scrip. Shortly afterwards, Mr. H. Pillons, who lives near the scene of the occurrence, was awakened by a knocking at his front door, and a very scared Maori intimated that home was never like this. In his dilemma, Mr. Pillcns rang up the police, but as the mounted men were scattered on patrol nothing could be done.

A correspondent writing to the Post on the wheat problem says: No further away from Sydney, say, within 1200 miles of Wellington, there are 9,000,000 sacks of wheat, for which the owners cannot find an outlet. Surely common sense would suggest that New Zealand should be a customer for some of this surplus, so that not one acre of land need be used in New Zealand while the war lasts for growing wheat. The land would be much better employed growing meat, of which there is likely to be a shortage in the near future. The Government would be wise, in the face of the surplus in Australia, in forbidding the growing of wheat in New Zealand until we have helped our neighbours to get rid of what is now only rotting at their railway stations.

In its characteristic stylo, the Sydney Bulletin has a fling at New Zealand in its last issue. It says that, of the three or four countries in the world actually making money out of the war, Maoriland is one. Yet sh e is wading deeper and deeper into debt. Out of her immense war profits she could easily have kept from borrowng. Instead, she has gone on the insane doctrine that “posterity should hoar its just share in the burden,” and send her Finance Minister to London to, among other things, address “war loan meetings.” Naturally Sir Joseph Ward is in his element in telling the British public to dip into its pockets. Rut he can be relied on not to explain that, owing millions to a mother, who wonts them now, Maoriland is •• rontons out of the old lady - ■ ’ w-t repaying a penny.