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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 18 May 1917, Page 4

A bn si i trucky is wanted by Gardner and Sons, sawmillers, Turanga rere. The increased cost of living is greatly modified when shopping at Gollinson and Gifford, Ltd. See special discount advertisement. Advt.

A meeting ,of London girl munition makes recently resolved not to associate with any man under 41 working or skulking in the munition factories.

As showing the magnitude of the mouse plague in the wheat districts,

16 tons of mice were caught in Minyip (Victoria) last month, including 161 cwt. in one night.

Messrs W. J. White and Sons have ing particulars of special bargains they are offering in new tweeds and millinery. A perusal of the advt. will be of interest as well as to the advantage of prospective buyers.

The way of the translator is hard. In preparing a hymnal for the Zulus (says the Review of Reviews) a writer found it next to impossible to translate the line, “Lord dismiss us with Thy blessing.” The nearest he could get to it in Zulu was, “Lord, kick ns out softly.”

The Defence Department wants 10G men for home service duties at Featherston camp. The men have been classed by the District Medical Board as unfit for active service. If possible they should bo First Division men. They will rank as privates, and promotion will depend on their ability and any vacancy which may occur. The following arc required: Typists, clerks, orderlies, plumbers, saddlers, carpenters, cooks, butchers, tinsmiths, sailmakers.

Commercial men and others of the public who are in the habit of postingduplicates of their business correspondence to the United Kingdom, should attend carefully to the following: Hereafter cor.vcsponence heretofore sent via Australia to the United Kingdom must be superscribed, "By Direct Steamer,’’ as the route hitherto used via Australia is no longer available. To avoid the dispatch of both originals, it is suggested that a reasonable interval be allowed to elapse between the postings.

Some Australian soldiers, as soon as they landed at Alexandria, were sent by train to Cairo, and although it was midnight when they arrived they were not permitted to rest for the night, but had to march many a •weary mile to camp. At last, as they were nearing their destination, the Pyramids loomed ahead of them in the darkness. “Well, I’m jiggered,” exclaimed a young soldier. “They’ve put np one big tent to hold the lot of us! ”

Mr. H. D. Bond, the well-known jeweller of Taihape, has an announcement of more than special interest on this page, giving particulars of new goods fi’om the leading British manufacturers. He has a special line of scilver and E.P. ware suitable for gifts, and he invites inspection from all those who contemplate making a present. They will get sterling goods at reasonable prices, and will have the satisfaction of purchasing goods “made in Britain.”

In a letter to an Auckland merchant an Eastern flour broker who recently visited New Zealand, says: “I may live to see Manchuria, North China, and Siberia furnish the world’s markers with 10,000,000 tons of wheat yearly. The grain, with proper care, can be brought up to the standard of Canadian ' hard wheat. The land is there, only no Chinese have the grit to go in and farm it on a large scale. In time we may find the Japs doing it. They have not the wheat land in Japan.”

Many marriages are taking place in London between soldiers and Englishwomen, but before a marriage can take place it is necessary for an officer's consent to be obtained. A Maori recently went to his officer and asked permission to marry a pakeha girl. The officer said he hoped the Maori had carefully considered the seriousness of the undertaking and was not entering the marriage state lightly. The Maori said he had made up his mind and was most anxious to obtain the necessary permission. The officer pointed out that perhaps the lady might object to going to New Zealand and live with the natives. ‘“Oh, that’s cr-right,” said the Maori, “we not going back to New Zealand. Her mother keep te pub!”

Such serious congestion of the refrigerating works has developed in the Auckland district, owing to the shortage of shipping accommodation icr export purposes, that both the ucklaml freezing companits are ob,;yed vo refuse farther supplies of :ioat fer eta-age. The Southdown and '•Vestfield works are quite full, the • uckiand works have blit a limited .. see left, which is ro- . •■•■a,' produce, and the Hoorient can take in meat , r ■: .by v v days longer. The Auck- •;••• t i-A Freezing Company has, W'Lva, r elded to close down at the md of the week. The Westfield hvezing Company will also shut rvn about a week hence, except so ;r as its preserving department is •ncerned. 2/- in the £ is the big discount to bo had off all cash purchases at Collinson and Gifford Ltd. See big advertisements. Advt.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board on Wednesday the salary of the porter at the Taihape Hospital was raised to 35s per week.

Mr. A. G. Cannons, secretary to the Otaihape Meat and Produce Company, has resigned his position to take one of greater importance in Auckland.

It seems almost too elementary to have to state at this time of day (writes Mr. Gerald Fiennes, the naval expert), that a submarine can travel for long distances under water without even showing her periscope, that no minefield, laid across the mouth of the Bight of Heligoland, with neutral waters on each side, could possibly stop the U-boats from getting out, and that, once in the track of shipping, they need show no more than a few feet of periscope in order to use their torpedoes.