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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 14 June 1917, Page 4

. The usual Fire Brigade Social and Euchre Tournament takes place tonight at the Fire Brigade Hall.

Sir James Allen sent a cable of congratulation to the New Zealanders on thei,r success of Mcssines, with an especialy complimentary reference to the Tunnellers.

Mrs. S. Forster, of Ruanui, who was always the chief prize winner in the Home Industries section at Taihape Shows, had a good innings at the recent Wa'i'kato Show. For separator butter, Mrs > Forster secured a first and second prize and in the pickle and preserveclasses, in which the entries in some cases totalled 100, she also secured many prizes.

The Pacific Cable Board announces that in addition to posting the original received copy of all weekend telegrams for the United Kingdom from Montreal a duplicate of each message is posted one week later, as no information regarding forwarding mails is disclosed by the Post Office. No guarantee can be given that both copies will not arrive by the same steamer. No extra postage is required.

A very smart answer was given by a young lady lately in Sydney, where she was speaking at a recruiting meeting. As it was her first appearance as a public speaker, she naturally was at first a little nervous, but soon warmed up, in her enthusiasm forgetting her nervousness. "Oh, yes, it's all very nice for you to talk, being a girl, but tell me this —would you go and fight if you were a man?" sneered a big, strong man in the crowd. Quick as lightning tlie girl made reply. "Yes, I would, wouldn't you?" which certainly showed her to be uncommonly quickwitted, and her remark very much to the point. Just what the man's' feelings were would' be interesting to know.

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Among those called up in the recent ballot is a Levin young man who has a wooden leg.

Two surfacemen are advertised for by the Wangaehu Eoad Board. The jobs will be permanent to suitable men.

A brown leather purse, lost on Mataroa Eoad, or on the right of way leading therefrom to the railway station, is advertised for.

The National Zeitung ,of Basle, states that the Kaiser recently paid visit to his High Sea Fleet, at Kiel, and remained under the water in a submarine for nearly an hour.

Mr. P. Troy has been appointed Ranger to the Wangaehu Road Board, and all stock straying on roads under the jurisdiction, of the Board will be impounded. An advertisement to this effect appears in to-day's paper.

The Rangataua Patriotic Society which decided to join in with the Taihapc District Patriotic Society, appointed Mr. J. Evans of Taihape to represent Rangataua on the Taihape District Patriotic Society's General Committee.

The Wellington Racing Club has forwarded the sum of £2OO to the New Zealand Catholic Federation for the purpose of providing military chaplains on active service with money to relieve the necessities of the men in the field and in hospitals.

In the course of a discussion on the proposal of the Wellington Patriotic Society to raise- more money for the rapidly dwindling funds of the War Relief Association, M r - J° ,nn - Hutcbeson (ex-M.P), said: "There are 'men in this town worth twice as much as anyone in this room, who have not given anything. They should be pilloried by being named —and they will be soon-"

The segregation camps at Tauherenikau, at present occupied by .recruits of the 30th Beinforcenients, are giving the military authorities entire satisfaction. The camps are keeping in good condition in spite of the bad weather"'and the health of the troops is excelent. The epidemics that were troubling recruit d,rafts at this time, last year are almost entirely absent, a fact due in part to the increased medical precautions that have been dictated by experience.

The Hawke's Bay Education Board has decided to discontenance the practice of its female teachers living in single bliss in small cottages near schools in country districts. The decision was come to when a request was made from the Sherendon Committee for the erection of a two-roomed cottage in which their teacher might live The Board declined the application. The acting-chairman remarked that it was better for the teacher to live where she would have "home comforts" her food cooked for her and other things she would not have Avhen "baching." \ _ ■ . .■

A recent cable stated that Charlie Chaplin, the picture comedian, had refused an offer of £200,000 for 12 pictures, and had said that if he didn't get that amount for eight he would produce them himself and sell to the highest bidder. The offer represents £16,000 a picture, and the demand at £25,000. The salary of the President of the United States is £15,000 a year, with a travelling allowance of £SOOO. So the amount of work that the famous comedian does for one picture, -which might take him a whole month, is worth more than the whole year's work of the President. ?

The "Elthani Argus" states that the new gas-shell which is creating such havoc in the enemy's ranks is the invention of a professor in a w r ell-known English Midland university., A certain gun that is used in the trenches is also the invention of a university professor. It is simplicity itself. At a trial of it an Eltham resident saw it manipulated so that before the first discharged bomb had reached the ground nine others were in pursuit of it. A little girl of ten years of age could manipulate this particular weapon. The first time we used it in action we lost one, and then the Germans had our secret.

In reply to a reporter's question in Wellington recently on the subject of the new shipping regulations, the act-ing-Premier said: "I don't know that the regulations have anything particular to do with the merger of the Union Steamship Co. It is a measure we have taken to protect ourselves and keep for our own trade the ships registered in our country. The Australians have a very firm hold over their shipping, and it seems only a fair thing that we in New Zealand should have some hold over the shipping registered here. In reply to a suggestion that it was being remarked upon as significant tli at the Government should have decided upon these measures so soon after the announcement of the merger of the Union Steamship Co., Sir James Allen said it was a mere coincidence.

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