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

No more potatoes are to be issued to prisoners of war in England. Salaries in connection with the British Ministry of Muntions now total £537,000 yearly. The mobilisation of the 31st Eoinforcements will take place next week. The draft is expected to enter camp over strength, the surplus of recruits going to reduce the shortage of men in training that has "oeen carried forward since last year. Various substitutes for white pine in butterbox making has been suggested, and one of the mos; promising of these is red birch, which grows in great quantities in Southland. While in the South Island the Board of Trade heard evidence as to the stock of this "timber in sight and its suitability for butterboxes. Replying to a deputation in Wellington recently, Sir James Allen said he was fully conscious of the growth of popular feeling in favour of the early closing of hotels. He agreed that early closing would be useless without stringent regulations dealing with the wholesale supply of liquor to private persons. He would submit the deputation T s representations to Mr. Massey and Sir Jaseph Ward and the Cabinet as a whole as soon as possible. Smart Y7inter Biousings in Newest designs and Colourings, Bd, lOd, 101 d, 1/3 yard. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

In all, 10,000 horses have been sent away from New Zealand as remounts.

Mr. J. P. Aldrigde received a cablegram from his son "Gus" who is now in France, the brief wording of which is "still going strong." A ten-pound note, lost last night, be tween the Town Hall and the Gretna Hotel, is advertised for by the owner who is away from home and can ill afford its loss.

With this issue we are circulating a folder giving particulars of the great winter sale to be held by Messrs. Collinson and Gilford on Wednesday next.

The D.I.C. Winter Sale commences on Wednesday, 27th June. As usual, a splendid range of stock is being offered at tempting prices. Provincial customers are advised to write early for catalogue giving a full list of bargains.

At the Palmerston North Winter Show, Mr. J. J. Bryce's well-known hack Twilight had to be content with second place in the Hunters' Competition, being beaten by Mr. D. G. Riddeford's Dugald. Mr. Troy, of Mataroa, filled third place with Larry.

A London cable message says Premier Lloyd George has consented to receive a Unionist deputation which will urge the Government to exercise absolute food control, suppress profiteering, and take over the management of the retail shops in the poorer districts.

The entries received "or the Taihape' Winter Show have come in very satisfactorily, the number being slightly in excess of those recorded last year. The arrangements are in a very forward state, and everything indicates a most successful exhibition.

With a view to encouraging semi-of-ficial testing of cows by its members, the New Zealand Milking Shorthorn Association at the general meeting held at Palmerston recently, decided to offer 20 guineas as prizes in the various classes for the best record for the 191718 season.

Messrs Murajud, the real fishermen, have bought out Mrs. Bagley's tea rooms, and are commencing a right up-to-date fish and oyster saloon, and dining rooms. Fish is obtained fresh daily from their connection in Auckland, which will be sold at the most moderate prices. A pathetic figure at the Solemn Kcquiem Mass to Father McMenamin at the Basilica in Wellington was ChaplinCaptain Dore, who was seriously wounded while on active service on Gallipoli. He was so severely injured about the spine that he is scarcely able to get about with the aid of two sticks.

"You take it from me that numbers count in a deputation to Parliament/' said Mr P. Nathan at the annual meeting of the National Dairy Association at Palmerston. "You send five or six in a deputation and they give you an evasive answer, "Send a few hundred and you will find the reply very different." While working at tthe new picture theatre building, which is being erected by Mr: T. Elliott Wilson, a man named 'Houghton met with rather a serious accident. A brick fell from above him striking his chin, knocking ■out two teeth and fracturing his jaw. Di\ Boyd attended the injured man and found the injuries so serious that a sil-j ver plate would have to be placed to strengthen it. The doctor ordered the man into the hospital.

Cyril Maude brings one snappy story from England which has a bearing on current events. A recruiting sergeant hailed a muscular village labourer. "See 'ere,' my lad," he said ingratiatingly, "arc you in good 'ealth?" "I are," replied the youth. "Are you married?" "I aren't." ""Ave you any one dependent upon you?" "I ain't." Then your King and country need you. Why don't you enlist." "What," he said in amazement, "me enlist, with that bloomin' war goin' on!"

An effort is being made by a few enthusiastic lady hockey players to form a club in Taihape, and in order to do this a meeting is to be held in the Fire Brigade Hall on Monday evening at 7.30. Now that the winter season precludes the playing of tennis, the ladies feel it is necessary to have some form of outdoor amusement, hence '"Hie effort to form a hockey club. We hope to see a good attendance of those interested in this popular winter pastime. The story of a most despicable theft come from Spreydon, a suburb of Christchurc-h. An old lady has three sons at the front (one a prisoner of war in Germany) and, out of the allowance left by her sons, saved up a sum of £39. which she kept in a box in her room, having an old-fash-ioned prejudice against banks and safe deposits. On May 18 this money was stolen By June 18 she had managed to save another £l3, and, failing to benefit by the experience, kept the money in the house, and the mean thief, evidently aware of the date on which she drew the money, again purloined the lot. The matter has been placed in the -hands of the police