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

A boy: 0 f 17 years; who joined the service two years ago, has ■ been charged in England -'With 'deserting from the Canadian army.

A girl munition worker charged at Llawarden (England) with stealing a quantity of high explosives explained that she took it to cure a corn.

Emil Harms, who was a sailor in the German freighter Main when she was laid up at Baltimore at the beginning of the war, says he has been since discharged by 85 employers in the United States because they did not like Germans.

As an illustration of war-time prosperity, it is noted that four "chains" of shops in the United States where only 2Jd and 5d (5 and 10 cents) articles are sold, realised £27,000,000 last year, which meant sales of more than 20,000,000 articles.

Two wealthy men enlisted at Victoria Barracks, Sydney, the same day last week, both of them farmers and •graziers. One, aged 31 years, is worth £20,000, and hails from Cowra. The other is 30 years old, has been engaged in pastoral pursuits for 20 years, is the master of £15,000, and comes from Goolagong.

No less an authority than the Sydney Bulletin opines that horse-racing is overdone in New Zealand. Thus: "The country has far too much racing for toleration by any reasonable man; too much tin-pot leather flapimg institutions which could bo wiped out with great advantage to the general community."

Mrs. Mildmay, wife >cf Colonel F. Li'. Mildmay, the Unionist member for the Totnee division of Devon, herself ui active worker on the land, told at i meeting of a young woman at Newon Ferrers who before the war thought she was too delicate to get up til 1 o'clock. She was now ploughing and rose at 5 a.m.

The increased cost of living is greatly modified when shopping at Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. See special discount advertisement. Advt.

It is likely that the foolish waste of rice at weddings will come under the ban of the British Food Controller. It is rumoured that, owing to the fear of epidemics, the Defence Department intends to evacuate Trentham Camp for the winter.

A woman travelling on the tramway at Strasburg, was. found to have concealed two sides of a sucking pig by wearing them in the form of a boa round her neck.

A question decided at the local school committee election, says a Bluff paper, was this: Is it competent for a man who is a good citizen in all respects to sit on a public school committee and yet send his children to another school? The Education Act does not bear on the subject, but the householders present dealt with the matter in their own way by creating an election and voting out the candidate in question.

Sir James Allen, in an interview yesterday, said that the State Coal Mines were not paying. They ought to be made to pay. It was not fair to the ordinary taxpayer to be taxed to make up for this loss, or that Government mines working at a loss should compete with private mines which had to show a profit. So far the offer of the Canterbury syndicate to purchase the State Mines had not come before Cabinet. The ActingPremier does not remind the people that the State Mines have prevented the private owners raising the price of coal unduly.

It does not seem to be generally known that anyone circulating false reports about our troops are liable to a heavy penlty, for we have had two instances of late which should be dealt with severely if the authors of the canards were known. One was that the 23rds had been torpedoed at sea, and the other (last night) was that the New Zealand Rifle Brigade were prisoners in Germany. The perpetrators of the reports may have thought that they were having a good joke at the expense of the listeners, but they would find a period in gaol no joke at all.

2/- in the £ is the big discount to be had off all cash purchases at Collinson and Gifford Ltd. ■ See big advertisements. Advt.