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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 23 April 1917, Page 4

Good Goods. That’s the Lotus Brand. For Chronic Complaints— Woods' Great Peppermint Cure

Messrs W. M. Luxford and Co., Wanganui, are advertising for a smart grocer, that is able to collect orders and deliver goods.

Cambridge Uuiycreity has already sent on active service 13,228 members, of whom 3628 have been killed, wounded, or are missing, and 2116 have won various honours.

Advices received by a Wellington firm of merchants on Friday, show r a rise of 100 tier cent, in the price of chinaware and 20 per cent, in the price of earthenware. x

A Poking telegram states that many Chinese depositors have been, drawing out their funds from the German banks in Peking and Tsiensin, and are also converting banknotes into silver.

The Innisbrucker Zeihmg reports that a large number of avalanches fell in. that part of the Trontino still occupied by Austrian troops during February, and some hundreds of Austrian soldiers were buried alive.

►Students of domestic economy may be interested to learn that while"grapes are selling well ’ ’ in Wellington at Is 2d wholesale, and that tomatoes are scarce and bringing good prices” (vide market reports) y fresh eggs have to-day slightly eased in price, and may be had at 2s 8d to 2s fid per dozen wholesale, say 3d per piece over the counter.

In our report on Saturday of the meeting of the Taihape Borough Council, a printer’s error occurred in the remarks passed by Cr. Joblin when discussing the question of the storage of benzine. In the printed report it is state: “Cr. Joblin considered it was absolutely necessary to protect the ‘hose’ .of the firemen;” the word “lives” should have appeared instead of “hose,” which is a distinction with a very big difference.

In regard to stock generally, it is felt that if the winter is a hard one things will not go too well with sheep and cattle, says “ Agricola ” in his South Island notes in the Farmers ’ Union Advocate. In some districts there

are absolutely no roots at all, while in

other parts the turnips are there, but they are not anything like the usual sizcaud will not give a great deal of feed.' qt us hope then that the winter will again ,be favourable, as good, in fact,-as it has. been during the past three; seasons.. • •

The partial suspension of tke train services is going to play havoc with the system of initcrant technical instruction to schools in this education district. The lady instructors in cooking, etc., depend upon the trains for a great deal of the travelling they have to do, and a great of trouble was taken at the beginning of the year to fit this in, but the cessation of the running of some of the trains utilised has upset everything. Temporary arrangements are being made to tide over the difficulty, but the future is looked forward to in this branch of education with considerable misgiving.

Writes a Westport soldier from France: “If the Labour people here or in England were to strike, they would stop the war all right, but it would be a complete German victory. Almost as much depends on the labourers in England as on the soldiers here, and, so far,’l think, they have done splen-

dicily. By jove, it would do Semple and his crew good to have a little tour through France and England and learn a bit. There everybody is a soldier—women as well as men, unfit as well as fit. The Government practically runs everything. France is not a very strong country, but she has put her shoulder to it better than any of them.”

A gentleman who is interesting himself in the Wairarapa in connection with the wheat-growing campaign informed an Age reporter on Wednesday that from a farmer’s point of view the growing of wheat was likely to prove the safest proposition during the coming season. The Government, he said, had guaranteed a fair price per bushel —a payable price—and as the wheat was required for home consumption there was absolutely no fear of congestion, as was likely to arise in respect to export produce, owing to the lack of shipment. In his opinion, wheat and potato growing was a safe refuge for farmers during the coming season.

An Aucklander writes from France as follows: —In the old days it was the enemy fire only that the attackers were afraid of. Now there is our own as well. An attack is made under an are of our own fire. The attacking force must always keep within 50 yards of its own barrage. They move by the clock. All watches are synchronised, and you go so far. and no further,

every minute. Every minute the barv

age is lifted. If you anticipate the barrage you get in amongst the shells of your own batteries; if you hang back too long, then the enemy has time to come out of his dug-outs—-for he know:- when. the barrage has pas-

sed over —and so you become an easy mark for his machine-gun and rifle fire. Yes, it’s reduced to a science, this war game. As little as possible is left to chance. There is method all the time, and no man is allowed to proceed to the front until he has been instilled with a common sense understanding of those methods.

To-day is St. George’s: Day, and in consequence banks and Government offices are taking a holiday.

At the Taihape sale on Wednesday, fourteen horses, broken and unbroken are to be sold in aid ot Red Cross funds.

It was declared at Clitheroe Tribunal that when a military representative who had argued that it was not in the national interest that plumbers should remain at home telephoned to one of them to come and mend a pipe, the plumber’s reply was: “It is not of national importance that you should have your pipes mended.”

The following letter has been received by the editor of the Taihape Times:—Apia, Shmoa. 12/4/17.—Sir, —Through your columns I desire to express my thanks to the Taihape Women’s Working Club for their continued kindness and thoughtfulness to myself and other men on service. I am sure the boys in Europe appreciate the contents of the parcels forwarded by the club. God bless the women of New Zealand for their good deeds. —I am, etc., P. W. Beechey.

At the Military Appeal Board Sessions in Auckland on Saturday last, during the hearing of an appeal for exemption for a boot machinist and clicker, Mr. Hall-Skelton, who appeared for the man whose case was under review, and for the trade generally, said there was an exhaustion of the supply of children’s and women’s footwear, and all the houses were depleted, while the ordinary business man’s boot that had cost 25/- would soon be up to £2 15/, in consequence of shortage, and then they would not be obtainable. He could produce the list of a well-known English firm to show that out of 200 lines of imported footwear wholesalers and retailers could not procure 170 lines, and the other 30 lines were restricted to one gross every six months. In short, there was going to be a serious boot famine, and the prices would be such as had never been heard of in New Zealand before.