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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 31 August 1917, Page 4

"In the event of an air raid/do not collect in a crowd," says a notice which has been posted in a Kentish hamlet, near Ashford, where there are only nine persons in the entire population. The Government says it has power to purchase the Union Steam Ship Co.'a commandeered ships, at definite prices, which have been fixed in the charter parties, being the value at the time the charters were entered upon. American women are exhibiting their patriotism by having the Stars and Stripes embroidered on the front of their stockings, and on the backs of their white silk gloves. Hats of white Milan straw arc also being sold in New York "with red and white cross grain stripes round the crown, and 48 embroidered stars directly in front!" See the Coat and Costume Stocktaking Bargains, Saturday the last day—Collinson and Gifford

Two smart boys are wanted by H. D. Bennett, Ltd., Taihape.

"There will be sufficient wheat grown this year to meet our requirements during the coming year." —Sir James Allen.

A signficant and promising item in a Wellington paper says that "350 passengers have left New Zealand for Australia.''

A lady teller has been appointed in the Westport branch of Bank of New Zealand. She is the first lady to occupy such a position in New Zealand.

At the Tui Street mart on Saturday Messrs Ward and Co., will sell on behalf of various vendors, pigs, horse, wheelbarrow, garden produce, fruit, bacon and a lot of useful sundries.

Messrs Wilson and Canham, hide, skin, and w r ool exporters, of Auckland,

are taking up £50,000 worth of Liberty Loan bonds. The firm invested £IO,OOO in New Zealand's previous war loan.

Eight thousand of the leading Freemasons of the Empire and representatives of America met in the Albert Hall, London, last month, to celebrate the 200th anniversary v of the founding of the United Grand Lodge of Freemasons.

The presence of a lady at the Pahiatua dairy meeting on Tuesday led the chairman to remark how greatly dependent the farmers are becoming in these days on women, and as things were going now they would have to depend on them a good deal more.

United States cotton goods are rapidly becoming ousted from the Maneurian market by Japanese manufactures. 'The trade was formerly worth £5,000,000 annually. Supplies of electric lamp buibs, of grades, formerly supplied by Germany, are now being shipped from Japan to South Eussia.

A witty Unionist, chatting in the lobby of the House 'of Commons about the great stream of American soldiers across the ocean from the United States to France to fight under the command of the general who preceded them, suggested a new name for the Atlantic Ocean —The Pershing Gulf.

The Jutland battle, in which only a portion of the two fleets took part, cost over £40,000,000, without counting the value of the lives sacrificed in it. And, incredible as such a statement must seem, it becomes intelligible when we consider that a single welldirected shot can sink in a few minutes a battleship that has cost more than £2,000,000 to build and equip.

Billy Sunday, the American evangelist, at one of his recent revival services, said: ''Thousands of your boys are going to the firing line to fight for you, and they will need some recreation. The collection this afternoon instead of going to" the Red Cross and the Y.M.C.A., I am going to put into I baseballs, bats, gloves, and masks, so that the boys can have a little fun !'' Billy Sanday was a professional baseball player before his conversion. We notice that the "Northern Adcate," published at Whangarei has decided to allocate its excess profits over expenditure for the past year (some £271) to local patriotic purposes. There are few provincial papers in the enviable position pf having any profits whatever, and the public spirited and philantrophie action of this popular North Auckland journal could be copied by some of the leading .metjropolitfan' with considerable advantage to some worthy object.

A Dunedin soldier gives the following interesting incident, which occurred in the early stages of the Battle of Mcssines: We saw a big lot of prisoners coming in just after the push started, and they were a motley lot—boys of 14 or 15 and middle aged and fairly old men. Most of them seemed very pleased that they were out of it, but ofticrs appeared to take it very badly, especially the officers, among whom was a general and his staff. I believe they were caught asleep, and were taken in their pyjamas, so you can guess how sudden things • were once we get going in earnest.

News has reached Hamilton, Ontario, of one of the most remarkable happenings of the entire war in the aerial element. Destruction single handed, first of a German submarine and then of a Zeppelin, by Lieut. Basil D. Hobbs (of the Eoyal Flying Corps) was described in advices received by his relatives in the Canadian City. His exploits, which have won hi ma letter of congratulation from Admiral' Jellieoe. and recommendation for the Victoria Cross, were accomplished from a seaplane. He swooped down over the Üboat and dropped bombs on it until it sank. A few days later he attacked the airship and sent it crashing to .the earth yi flames, causing the death of its entire crew. Saturday the last day of stocktaking bargains: Ladies' Hats, all to be cleared at Is each. —Collinson and Gifford, Ltd.

A boy to deliver papers after school hours is advertised for.

A doorkeeper is advertised for by Everybody's Pictures.

The Taihape District High School broke up this afternoon for a week's vacation. Members of the committee of the Awarua Gun Club are reminded of the meeting that takes place this evening. A medal inscribed "Confraternity of the Blessed Sacrament," with ribbon and clasps, has been found in the street by Mr S. Peyton.

A Press Association message received to-day states that the Loyal Escilsior Lodge of Oddfellows at New Plymouth has invested £SOO in the War Loan. Local investments promises to reach a very satisfactory total.

Managers of picture theatres and other places of amusement in Auckland are disposed on the whole to consider the new amusements tax, as proposed under the Finance Bill, a fair one, and one that will not prejudicially affect their business, more particularly as the sixpenny tickets are exempt.

There is considerable talk in Wellington at the waste in cheese. Large stocks have accumulated and deteriorated, then being sent to the destructor. It is looked upon as scandalous wastje, because it might have been sold at lower than current rates.

It is alleged that an unfortunate command was forwarded to a certain family by some military authority. A member of the family in question had served at Samoa, had been invalided back to New Zealand, and after serving for over two years in the home service died while on sick leave. 'After his death the family received a communication demanding that the ceased report himself to the military!

Some startling revelations aqe expected to be adduced in the evidence that the detectives are piecing together in the charge that has been brought against two members of the -Railway Department for attempting to obtain a large sum of money from H. Martindale by means of an alleged fraud. The sum involved is £975, and it is stated that several well-known business people in Wellington are implicated.

The coal which Germany is supplying to neutrals is mined in the occupied districts of France and Belgium and is produced by slave labour, so that such purchases by neutrals encourage further enslavement of the French and Belgian population behind the German lines. England is shipping coal to Norway in British bottoms permitting Norwegian ships to engage in less dangerous trades. Norway in like manner obtains salt from England, which is used in enormous quantities by the fish industries. The Allies. aim to make the neutrals self-sustaining, as nearly as possible, so as to prevent the exportation by them of foodstuffs to Germany in return for coal and to make them economically independent of Germany through a system of exchange whereby by the Allies, including America, would receive the flow of Dutch and Scandinavian products which now has its outlet into Germany.