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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 22 September 1917, Page 4

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A single man, able to drive is wanted at the Main Trunk BVew’ery. A necklace of brown beads, lost between Everybodys pictures and Kaka Road, is advertised for. Three concrete roads have been made by the Auckland City Council and the Mayor claims that they are an absolute success. Messrs Edlin and Eteveneau mot- : or engineers, of the Ford Garage, have now a car on hire. Anyone requiring a car will, on ringing up telephone 171, receive prompt and reliable service.

On Sunday next, September 23rd, the Annual Foreign Mission Effort of the local Methodist Church will be completed. Special addresses will be given, and all not attending .other churches are invited to attend. All seats free.

Among the men who enlisted in Wellington recently was one who was quite a recent arrival in the Dominion. Not only had he been in the country but two days when he submitted himself for examination, but he wanted to be sent to camp right away.

Two plain-clothes city constables visited Pahiatua recently, with the result that 18 anti-shouting charges were heard before the Magistrate. The wives of tw r o licensees, also an. hotel employee, who served liquor, were each fined 40s, and the other defendants were fined 20s. The cases were the first of the kind in Pahiatua.

As an outcome of the decision of the Borough Council last night not to grant permission to Mr E. Hunter to use the Three Stars Theatre for the purpose of delivering a lecture on a Sunday evening after church hours, a petition is in course of circulation to ask the Council to reconsider the matter.

The Napier Returned Soldiers’ Association has issued a notice warning residents that men posing as returned soldiers are going about soliciting help and asking people to procure the names and regiment numbers of these men and other proof of their identity before giving relief. The association greatly deprecates returned soldiers begging for assistance.

By the courtesy of the Red Cross authorities the Red Cross Shop has been placed at the disposal of the Church of England Bazaar Parcels Committee to exhibit their surprise parcels to-day, and a roaring trade ha s been done. The element of uncertainty as to the contents of these appeals to the sporting side of the British character, and as some valuable goods have been secured for the modest shilling the stock of parcels is disappearing rapidly. The sale will continue during next week.

The New Zealand Herald states that the planting of the new potato crop in the Auckland Province has been considerably retarded by wet weather, and in consequence the first of the early potatoes are not expected to be on the Auckland market before November, and the maTn crop not before January. There is no reason to believe that fewer potatoes will be planted in the Auckland Province this year. Some growers have already planted areas twice over, but on account of the excessive rain the results have been very poor.

“The whole country should rise in rebellion,” loudly declared the Attor-ney-General in the House, in speaking against prohibitionist agitation. Such a statement coming from such a person with such aspirations, naturally caused a chorus of shocked “Ohs!” to arise from members. Mr. P. C. Webb, remarked that he had received three months for a much milder statement. Maturer consideration of this utterance evidently made Mr. Webb charitable, for when he spoke later in the evening he earnestly exhorted members not to encourage Mr, Herdman to make more intemperate remarks, otherwise the Minister would surely be in gaol within six months.—“N.Z, Times.”

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