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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 12 March 1917, Page 4

The Foxton Druids’ Lodge has decided to invest £350 in war loan certificates.

At the sitting- of the Military Appeal Board ui Palmerston, Captain AVnlker stated that owing to the Easter holidays the departure of the 28tli Reinforcements would be delayed from April 1 to April 9.

A imw industry has been begun at the junction of the Bulier ana the

Owen rivers, where the necessary machinery has been built for proauction oi wood wool, used mainly ur packing trait for export.

A Wellington resident who had been drawn in one of the military ballots, and had not condescended to take any heed of the fact, was arrested by a picket of soldiers and sent to one of the military camps.

“Flat fish caught off the Dogger Bank which used to be sol u at £s°per cwt., is now worth in England £7Uto £IOO per cwt.” said Mr. E. f. Stead, at the last meeting of th e North Canterbury Acclimatisation Society.

It is rumoured that a number or

prosecutions are about iu be instituted against farmers who have neglected to furnish returns required by the lax Department and others who are alleged to have greatly understated their incomes and profits.

Mr. Ritchie, Land Purchase Commissioner, told the Palmerston Patriotic Society that a great deal of derelict land was offered to the Board, and it was almost invariably found when they came along that the owners wanted 25 to 50 per cent, more ror it than it stood at on the valuation rolL

'The ravage of the ken have been so bad this year throughout North Canterbury that some of the high country stations are taking unprecedented steps to meet the trouble. Not only has the price per head been more than doubled, and guns lent and ammunition supplied free, but also permission has been given to shoot at birds hovering over or settled amongst sheep paddocked for the night. No greater evidence could be asked of the serious nature of the damage done than that on the chance of killing one bird a sheep-owner is willing to risk the dives of animals worth perhaps 35s each.

Two tailoresses are offered highest wages by Mr. J. De Luen.

An advertiser wants to buy 10 or more acres of good land.

The winning numbers in Attwood’s art union are advertised in another column.

The owner of a lost bunch of keys can have same by applying at this office.

In the New Plymouth Magistrate’s Court a man was fined £5 for having enrolled in the Second Division (as a married man) when the woman with whom he lived was not his wife.

Von Pammerstein, the ex-Military Attache at the German Legation in Eoumania, who was implicated in the discovery of explosive materials and bacilli of infectious diseases, has been nominated general and chief commander at Bucharest,

Mr. Rawson, S.M., gave judgment at Hamilton on Saturday on a charge of seditious utterance against Michael Francis Cusack, in connection with the strike of camber hands at Horotiu freezing works last month. He fined accused £SO, with costs £4 9/6, or three months’ imprisonment, one month being allowed for payment.

In the Supreme Court at Invercargill on Saturday, George Leslie, clerk of the Stamp Department, pleaded guilty to thefts totalling £769, and was sentenced to twelve months’ imprisonment. Mr. Justice Sim said there must be laxity somewhere when a man could go on stealing for more than six months.

There are indications of a great st.r in the newspaper world in the cities, says the Manawatu Times. Prices are to be doubled, sizes reduced, and there are rumours of amalgamations of certain large newspapers, and consequent cessation of publication. The most violent shake-up is expected in Christchurch, where there are too many newspapers to allow of a profitable production for them all.

“There is nut a better class or men to be found anywhere than the New Zealand non-commissioned officers,” stated Professor Bedford, of the Y.M.C.A. organisation, who has just returned from a visit to England. '“I know they are all picked men, and they show it. They have come up from th e ranks, and their intellectual capacity is wonderful. I made friendships from among the non-commis-sioned men which will last a lifetime.” Of recent date we have heard a deal about highway robberies and such sensational happenings at Palmerston, and it appears that burglars are now making their presence felt in our district (says the Otaki Mail). At Levin on Wednesday evening a business man was relieved of £d, which was hanging, in a case from the bedpost. A few evenings previously a Levin woman had £4 10 stolen, and a native was held up, and money demanded from him.

At Wanganui on Friday last the Opera Rouse was crammed full with people eager to hear Lieut. Morton’s lecture on the Somme Battle. The warmth of the reception given to Mr. Morton was an expression of Wanganui’s gratitiude to the gallant soldier for his surrender to their repeated appeals to give bis lecture in the river town. Quite an .ovation was given to him at the conclusion of his lecture. It is to be hoped that Taihape people will show they are not less interested in their soldier boys than the folk of Wanganui, and that they will make a point of keeping Friday night next a fixture in the week’s work. This is the very least that thoughtful ones amongst us should do.