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

Burglars broke into Messrs. J. Duthie and Co’s promises in Wellington on Wednesday night and stole £SO worth of goods. 'A Mastcrton stock-buyer states that cattle have fattened better in the district. this yean than last This ho attributed to the draught, having cleaned up the pastures a year or two ago. Lambs had also done better off their mothers this year than in former years.

The Comandant of th e New Zealand 1

laud Defence Forces (Brigadier-General Sir A.. W. Robin) has approved of all returned soldiers wearing uniforms to all functions on Anzac Day.

The Minister for Railways states that the coal-saving “cut” which is to some into force next Monday, is more drastic that the staff-saving “cut” that was to have come into operation on May 0.

Mrs AV. K. Morton, of Silverhope, who was one of the winners in the Taihape Farmers’ Red Cross Art Union, drawn on Thursday evening, has generously donated the prize to the Red Cross Society.

The annual! communication of the Now Zealand Grand Lodge of Freemasons, which was to have been held at Invercargill next month, has been allowed to lapse owing to the serious crisis in national affairs.

At the meeting of the Borough Council last evening, the Electric Lighting Committee reported that it had gone ‘into the question of JsuppSying 'the

Railway Department with electric curren at a flat rate of 4d per unit, and recommended that price be charged. The recommendation was adopted.

Speaking at Manly (Sydney) last week, the National candidate, Mr Pratton, said that when he was in Germany four years ago he received a card from a German ofiicer, with the following inscription: “This card may be useful to you one day, because I may be in Australia with my soldiers.” “That showed plainly that Germany had her eyes on Australia, ” said Mr Pratten.

It has been decided by the Auckland Farmers ’ Freezing Company to discontinue the killing of sheep and lambs at Horotiu for the remainder of the present season. Supplies are falling off, as is usual at this time of the year, and the company finds its economical to do all its killing at Southdown. The killing of cattle at Horotiu will be continued.

The Board of Trade has written to a Dunedin firm making it clear that farmers are acting illegally and rendering themselves liable to prosecution under regulation. by asking higher prices for their wheat than the maximum price fixed by the Government. Millers state that they are continually meeting with cases which, if reported to the Board of Trade, would probably lead to a prosecution of the offenders.

“I believe that 19 out of every 20 dairy herds could be reduced 20 percent. without decreasing the output of butter fat, providing that systematic testing and culling were gone in for,” remarked Mr J. Burgess, of Warea, at the sitting of the ‘Appeal Board. Mr Burgess added that there were a lot of poor cows that did not pay for milking, and could easily bo dispensed with. As the result of 10 years’ testing, Mr Burgess stated that he had increased the yield of his cows by 1001 b. of butter fat per annum.

The legal piofession -in Auckland pr-opscs to (make a contribution to the country’s war work in the form of gratuitous assistance to the Boards of Trustees for the management of soldiers’ property. Such boards will frequently require the advice as to the mode in which a document in connection with a soldier trust should bo executed, or a proper form of a power of sale, or of leasing to bo inserted in a power of attorney or other deed of the kind. The necessary work should be done free of charge.

Film thieves in How York have been estimated to have stolen £40,000 worth of motion picture films from a dozen or more producers within a year, and have built up a lucrative business of exporting them. These charged wore made public soon after a prisoner was arraigned in a magistrate’s court and held in £IOOO bail for the Grand Jury, on a charge that he had sold a stolon film to a detective who posed as an exporter. The price paid was £2O, it was alleged. Detectives assert that they bought other films from the same man for prices ranging from £lO to £2O.

Mn Robert Greig, the actor, tolls a good soldier story. Three soldiers, who had been up in the front lino, were walking along a road back to their billets, and each had a Fritz trophy. They were met by some other soldiers, to whom the trophies were shown. They quite understood the sentimental value of the helmet and sabre, but asked what an old door knocker meant. “Well, you see, it’s like this,” said the soldier. “I was knocking at the door of a house within the line of fire, when along came a shell, and blew the house out of my hand!”

It was a happy thought of the citizens of Berlin, Ontaria, to adopt “Kitchener” as the new name of their city, but it seems that a handful of aliens in their midst are endeavouring to restore the Hunnish appellation. In the course of a recent mayoral l election this anti-British proposal was the subject of heated debate. “Legally we are called Kitchener,” admitter Aldcrmann Gross—presumably an exile from the Fatherland—“but in my heart it is still Berlin.” But, for a gentleman who really feels this way, there are more Berlins than one.

Mr Tunnicliffe, Lay Missionary

from New Britain, will preach in the Methodist Church at 11 a.m. to-mor-row. All seats free. All welcome.

The committee of the Manawatu Racing Club understands that the holding of the Autumn Meeting would greatly embarass the Railway Department. It has therefore decided to indefinitely postpone the races.

The Taihape Tradesmen’s Association secretary notifies thaf, although it will materially affect the market day shopping on Wednesday next, the various shop'-keepers willingly respond to the invitation df the Mayor t-) observe Wednesday afternoon instead of Thursday as the weekly half-holiday in honour of Wednesday being Anzac Day.

A statement issued by the Railway Department last night says: Through

I expresses and mail trains will be rej stricted to one engine. Passengers I will not be admitted when the train Us full. 'Provision is made for passen-

gers to reserve seats for sevenpence, not later than half an hour before the train goes. Seats will not be reserved for journeys of less than one hundred miles. The public are warned that the number and size of trains will be restricted.