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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 9 June 1917, Page 4

At a largely attended public meeting in the Wellington Town Hall the other night, Mayor J. P. Luke, C.M.G., presiding, a motion in favour, of the sale of liquor being restricted to the hours between 8 a.m. and G p.m. was carried by a large majority. A similar result is recorded from Christchurch.

An appellant at the Appeal Board in Palmerston on Thursday stated that ho had five brothers on active service, all enlisting voluntarily. When the war broke out two brothers at once joined the Main Body, and a third brother, then in the Argentine ,heard the call and at once left that country to enlist. The other two brothers had gone later.

Mr. J. G. Harlcness, in a speech at Auckland, said the whole of the white pine available was in the Auckland province. He had full particulars, and he could corroborate the assertion that if the present conditions obtained, the supply would be exhausted in seven years. Most of the private owners ®f white pine forests were merely land speculators, and they should be made to give way to the interests of the majority. From 16,000,000 to 20,000,000 feet of white pine had been exported to their Australian competitors every pear.

Included in the recent claims before the Pensions Board wore five cases of a new class, the claims of men who had been rejected in camp as unfit for active service, and given leave of absence without pay to prevent their being put back into the ballot again, fcsome of these men are incapacitated, but the Pensions Board lias no power to deal with them under the War pensions 'Act, as they have not been discharged from the forces. An arrangement has been arrived at, however, Tinder which the Board considers such claims just as if they were ordinary pensions claims, and make recommendations to the Defence Department, which Pays out as military pay whatever amount the Board recommends Just received by post a nice parcel of Ladies’ Dainty Ofgandi Muslin Neckwear, prices 1/, 1/3, 1/6, 2/3, 2/6. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

A Masterton blacksmith told a rc porter that steel which cost him £S per ton prior to the war now costs him £o2 per ton.

A warning is issued under the Defence of the Realm Act against melting down sovcrigns; we never have a chance to worry about these warnings.

A Dublin soldier in hospital at Manchester expresses keen regrot that the shrapnel which damaged his arm removed a tattooed butterfly; “the loika of which I’ll never see again. ”

Whaingaroa Wirihana, at Hastings on Thursday, was committed for trial to the Supreme Court on a charge of the manslaughter of a newspaper runner named Rupert Maney, on May 18, by driving a motor-car at an excessive speed and running over deceased.

The .“cake and apron”-fair held by the Ladies’ Guild of the Presbyterian Church was only intended as an auxiliary effort n connection with one that is to come, and yet the ladies managed to clear some £22 towards lessening the debt on the Presbyterian Hall

The name of Mrs. S. Forster, of Kuanui, the veteran prize-taker at Taihape A, ami P. Shows, figures frequently in the prize-list of the great five-day Waikato Show just concluded at Hamilton. For separator butter Mrs. Forster secured a first and a second prize, despite very heavy competition. Mrs. Forster also took other prizes in the same section. She was remarkably successful in the pickle and preserve classes, in some of which the entries ran into over 100. Mrs. Forsten is to be congratulated on her success in bringing prizes to her own district

A mighty strong case of falsifying in-come-tax returns was sheeted home to one John Williams, managing director of the Clayton Tinplate Company, and director of other trading concerns in Wales, who was found guilty of faking the returns of profit of the tinplate busi ness, as well as of his private income, whereby the revenue had been defrauded of nearly £3OOO. Williams was a J.P. and a shining light in local reli gious and political parties. The judges at the Glamorgan 'Assizes, referring to the prisoner as a communicant member of the dissenting Church, called him the meanest of hounds and fined him £4OOO, with an additional contribution of £IOO towards the cost of prosecution. The fine was promptly paid.

German colonial publicists are running a Press campaign, insisting on the restoration, of colonies as an integral part of peace conditions, particularly in respect to Africa, Herr Eml Zimmermann (Foreign Minister) says that Germany cannot recover £137,500,000 lent to Turkey unless the status quo ante is restored, because Turkey's future will be imperilled unless sh e is protected, on her weak Asiatic flank from the great self-contained British African Empire, which will aim at the possession of Arabia and Southern Persia in order to bo united with India. Germany can* not, by bringing pressure to bear on England, prevent the expansion of great English colonial empires, which will make^tldnr,-,,o'wn poliev. / ’

A most successful dance was held at Mataroa last night iu aid of the Red Cross funds, when about -10 couples took the floor. The music, which was quite a feature of the evening, was provided by Misses Eileen May, E. and M. Sinclair, Reid, and Mn Maher. Mr. J E. Thurston made a most efficient M.C, and his good’ offices added materially to the evening’s enjoyment. Miss Maher danced an Irish jig in capital style, and was warmly applauded. A splendid supper was provided under th e control of Misses Troy, May, and Barron, and was done full justice to The whole function was noticeable for the completeness of the arrangements, and reflects great credit on the originator, Mrs Sinclair. Dancing was kept up till an early hour in the morning, and one and all voted it to be the most enjoyable dance held in Mataroa for a lonotime The Red Cross funds will benefit to the extent of £4. Ladies’ All Wool Gloves in Heather, Cream, Black, Grey and Brown, prices 2/11, 3/3, 3/(5, 3/11 pair. Collinson and Gifford Ltd.