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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 6 July 1917, Page 4

It is officially announced that “by the requirement of the Government,” the principal petroleum companies have arranged to pool their distributing facilities employed in bringing supplies to the United Kingdom, with the object of releasing men for the Army and affecting economy in various directions. Says a soldier in the Auckland Star: Of all colonial troops I really do not believe any reach so high a standard as our men. Their behaviour is always splendid. Rarely in London or any part of England have I seen a drunken Dominion soldier very rarely. And in other respects it is obvious that our men are well disciplined. Yet another thing has struck me. Soldiers on the cadge are becoming very common. I have frequently been stuck up here in London, but never by New Zealanders. Yes, our boys have a good name. And they will keep it. The American Trading Company of Australia received a cablegram last week from their New York office notyfing that freight from New York to Australian ports has been advanced to 50 dollars for July steamer. The last advance that was made recently for the June steamer was from 30 dollars to 36 dollars previously ruling to 42 dollars. This has now been advanced as above to 50 dollars for July. On the present conversion rate at New York, for sterling money, this means approximately a freight rate of £lO 10s per ton, which, it is believed is the record price. Ladies’ Smart Exclusive trimmed Models at half the marked price for Saturday only, at Great Winter Sale. Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

More than 6000 Canadians have joined the British Navy since the war began. “It is estimated,” said a delegate to the National Beekeepers’ Association Conference, “that 2000 people are engaged in bee-keeping in New Zealand.”

The present season (has been the wettest experienced in German East Africa for the past nine years, and all active operations on a large scale were perforce suspended.

The Wellington Gas Co., announces that it will be unable to guarantee a regular supply of gas after Sunday next. The position is due to the staff of its retort house, at Miramar having left after giving 14 days’ notice. As a result of a police campaign at Blenheim, informations numbering about thirty have been served on various persons for alleged breaches of the Anti-Shouting Regulations. The persons served comprise licensees, bartenders, and members of the public.

“If the Germans were victorious in the present war, I believe that a number of the so-called loyal Germans would be down on tne wharf to meet the first steamer from Germany, with an address of welcome, and it would not surprise me to find that it is already prepared,” remarked Cr. Cox (at one time a Palmerston resident) at the meeting of the Petone Borough Council.

A great future for the Panama Canal was prophesied by Sir Joseph Ward in the House of Representatives. He said that the great American engineers were going to make the waterway deep enough to take any vessel iu the world. The Panama Canal was going to have a greater effec-t on Britain’s trade and the trade between East and West than even the transformation in trade brought about by the opening of the Suez Canal.

“I feel very strongly about Gallipoli,” said the Prime Minister in the course of his speech in the House of Representatives. “ There is no question at all that the campaign was a blunder, but even now it is almost impossible to say who was responsible. I have no doubt that some day the responsibility will be placed on the proper shoulders, and then we will be able to refer to the campaign in terms we feel inclined to use.”

Two important conferences in the newspaper trade will be held in Wellington next week in connection with paper supplies, the executive of the N.Z., Newspaper Proprietor’s Association meeting on Wednesday next, at 9.30 a.m., and the committee of the provincial section at 7.30 p.m., On Thursday next, the executive will interview the Minister of Supplies at 10.30 a.m. On the same day the directors of the United Press Association will hold an important meeting.

Miss Jeanette Rankin, the member for Montana, told the American House of Representatives (in which she is the only representative of her sex) that the Government should be urged to withhold young unmarried men from the army in order that girls in the next few years would not have to pick their husbands from the old and enfeebled. It would be better for the State to draw on married men of military age and support their dependents than be faced with the prospect of a fair inferior generation.

Writes the Sydney Sun’s special representative in London: The military police are the biggest and bulkiest men in the force. Most have been policemen. Others have a natural respect for the law. They seem to thrive upon enforcing the King’s regulations and the thousand and one particular regulations of each military district. They grow daily more sedate and respectable, and hourly more deaf to the explanations of unfortunate follows who have no leave passes, or forget to salute, or stray into a prohibited area, or get excited in a theatre. For all these reasons they arc disliked.

In his latest despatch from Lagnicourt to Australia. Captain Bean says: There was nothing out of the way with the Victorian who was cut off and captured by two Germans, who kept him between them in their front trench for a couple of hours until one looked over the parapet and saw that there was fine sniping to be had at the Australians retiring through the fire. He nudged the other, and they both leant on the parapet and started shooting. The Victorian unostentatiously leapt, forward to do up a bootlace, and at the same time to pick up a bomb from a dead Australian, who was lying in the trench. He slipped out the pin, placed the bomb between the two Germans’ feet, and slipped round the next traverse and out of the trench across the deadly hill slope. As he himself put it, “the two Fritzes knew no more until they woke up to find themselves dead.”

Children’s Dainty Millinery, usual price 12/6; sale price 4/11 at Great Winter Sale.—Colliuson and Gifford, Ltd.

Owing to the death of the late Mr

W. Hekenui, the football match arranged for to-morrow between the Taihape Maoris and Pakehas will not take place.

The annual ploughing matches held, under the auspices of the Marton branch of the New Zealand Farmers 5 Union were held at Marton on Wednesday, the first prize of £lO and Champion Cup, valued at £S Ss was won by J. Dailey; F. King, second; A. Coleman, third.

A bazaar will be hold in Doole 5 s Hall, Utiku, on Thursday, July I2th. The ladies of Utiku and district have been working very strenuously for some time past, and we hope their efforts will be Qrownod with complete success. The proceeds of the bazaar are to be devoted to extinction of the Church of England debt.

A fresh illustration of the treachery of the Greek ex-King, is afforded by Sir Arthur Evans, president of the British Association who (writing in the “New Europe, 55 says: “It is not so long since a Royal mail-bag was intercepted on its way to the German lines, in which, together with a family letter to the Kaiser, were enclosed plans of our latest defensive works on the ducz Canal! The details of this discovery are well known in Athens, though it is said that the British Foreign Office did its best to hush it up.’ 5

The Board of Trade Commissioners (Messrs. Halley and Collins) have been engaged during the last few days in holding an enquiry into the question as to whether the export trade; in white pine should be restricted or otherwise. Evidence was taken at Taumarunui on July 3rd, Ohakunc on the sth, and at Taihape on the 6th. Evidence was given by representative millers in the district from their point of view, and the whole evidence will bo submitted to the full Board at its next meeting. The proceedings were held in camera.