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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 15 August 1917, Page 4

The R.'A.MC. arc very pleased at the low percentage of trench foot cases which have been recorded in the past winter. It is hoped that this trouble will be eliminated if there should be another winter campaign. The judicious oiling of the feet is an important matter. Frostbite, by the way, is a more serious matter, but it is not of frequent occurrence.

Genuine List Curl Table Covers, in green, red, and brown, 8x 10, 63/, 8 x 12, 75/ —Collinson and Gifford.

The Bank of New Zealand pink 10s. note has not been a success.: Another style and colour will be used.

On Saturday afternoon, the Masterton police made a raid on the premises of a local Chinese and seized a quantity of liquor. The Chinese will be charged at the S.M. Court with sly-grog-selling.

A housewife, in endeavouring to show how prices have been soaring fin Invercargill, stated to a Southland Times reporter that pease meal before the war cost 2d per lb, but now Is per lb had to be paid for it.

Thirty of the clergy of the diocese of Worcester are working as mechanics in munition factories, 110 are school teachers and clerks, and 50 are ploughing and sowing. Out of a total of 604 diocesan clergy, 482 are now engaged on work arising out of the war. When a Yorkshire vicar underwent an examination in bankruptcy, he told the Eegistrar that from one moneylender he had received £l5B, repaid £6O, and was still owing £230 12s With a wife and six children he had £l3O a year to live on. Speaking at the annual meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association, Mr.- J. McGregor said that he was of opinion that harvesting was of more importance than shearing, and that it was essential to organise in connection with this industry during the remainder of the war.

America is now proposing to mix 15 per cent of ground cotton seed with ordinary wheat flour. By this means it is estimated that a saving of 115,000,000 bushels of wheat a year can be made and double the nutriment of the bread. Another great economy scheme is the utilisation of fish hides as shoe leather.

"Doctors, before they will give evidence in a court, require to be paid ancl the money put down at that," said Mr. P. W. Jackson in a maintenance case that was being heard at Wellington. "It is a pity lawyers are not like that," replied the magistrate. "That is so," said Mr. Jackson, "but they are not so hard-hearted.'"

That the steadily-soaring prices of necessary commodities is felt by mjpe than one section of the people is borne out by the statement of a Wairarapa newspaper that, at a meeting of the management committee of the Greytown Presbyterian Church last Tuesday, a w r ar bonus of £ls was presented to the Minister, Mr. Grundy.

The rainfall in Auckland has been excessive of late, and some of the local bodies are faced with a large repairing expenditure of money for repairing damage to roads, footpaths, stc. In one part of a certain suburb the flood water w T as nearly up to the tops of the fences, and a boat was rowed over the lawn and flower garden of one of the residences.

To-day Messrs. Ward and Co., held their opening sale in connection with the gigantic sale of drapery which is being held in their auction mart Tui Street, This store presented a busy scone and great enthusiasm was shown by those present to secure the numerous bargains offered. The sale will be continued each day until Saturday next .when the whole of the, stock will be cleared regardless of cost.

The police at Rockliampton (Q), .on making enquiries into the circumstance surrounding the death of

Sarah Blanchard (80), an old age pensioner, who lived alone in a hut on Glenmore Road, Rockhampton, and who was found dead at the foot of her bed, discovered 100 sovereigns, 152 half sovereigns, £8 10s in notes, £8 7s 3d in silver and copper, and a. small bag of gold dust. The neighbours used to supply her with comforts.

A return published in the Gazette gives the estimated population of New Zealand on June 30, exclusive of residents of Cook and other Pacific Islands and Maoris, at 1,096,240, of which number 540,861 arc males and 555,379 are females. The Maori population at the time of the 1916 census was 49,776, and the population of the Cook and Pacific Islands was' 12,797, and these totals bring the estimated population of the Dominion up to 1,159,813. i

"Your sugar has come," said the postman with a smile, as he delivered a parcel of 31b of sugar at a South London home recently. ' 'And there's 4d to pay on it, please." A glance at. the label showed the astonished householder that this quite unexpected gift had come all the way from New Zealand, 13,000 miles <away, and that it was sent by a relative. It was a somewhat roundabout and expensive way of getting a parcel of sugar to South London. The 31b of sugar cost 9d in New Zealand; the postage was 2s Oid, and the Customs duty—paid by the Tecipent —was 4d; total,* 3e lid, or more than Is a lb. Tapestry Drapings, 30 inches wide, in the newest floral designs, lid per yard—Collinson & Gifford.

A boy for the drapery department is wanted by H. D. Bennett, Ltd.

In a new advertisement on page 2. Mr. G. E. Little draws special attention to a big line of ladies' and gents' sample boots and shoes.

Sir Samuel Caughey, a big squatter in Australia, recently undertook to insure the lives of 500 men, and had taken out a risk of £IOO,OOO for them

George Dennes, manager of a clothing factory at Auckland, was fined at the Magistrate's Court for having employed an uncertificated reservist.

The Returned Soldiers' Ball Commute have not been able to secure the loan of flags from the usual sources for decorating the Town Hall on the evening of the ball, therefore they will be grateful to shopkeepers, business men and others who have flags if they will be good enough to lend them. Anyone desirous of so assisting towards the success of the Returned Soldiers' movement are asked to be good enough to leave the flags or bunting at the Town Hall on Thursday, after pencilling their names thereon.