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Taihape Daily Times, Issue 220, 3 October 1917, Page 4

A capable girl is wanted to assist in a country home.

The next euchre party to be held in aid of the Catholic Church Bazaar Fund is to be held in the Town Hall supper room on Thursday evening next. As these parties are becoming more and mere popular an enjoyable time is assured.

The Cologne Gazette cannot understand -why Siam should join the world of enemies that fail to appreciate German Kultur. “In Siam, before the war, there were only 48 Englishmen, as compared with 244 Germans, and these Germans,” says the paper, “had in their hands the whole of the oversea trade with Siam' and were men of considerable influence and very popular with the Siamese, and yet in spite of this Siam turns against us!”

Dainty Camisole embroideries, 1/11 2/9, 3/3, 3/6 yard. Camisole lengths ready to make up, pretty designs, 2/1, 3/3, 3/6, 4/6, 4/11, 5/6, 6/11, 8/6 each. —Collinson and Ltd.

An advertiser has a comfortable bed-sitting room to let.

Mr B'arrie Marschel is in Taihape, and. has leased the picture “[Where Are My Children?” to Mr Nicholls for exhibition on Thursday, October 11th at the Three Stars Theatre.

In the latest casualty list appears the name of Pte. Alfred W. Helena, previously reported wounded, now reported wounded and missing. Private Helem is a son of Mr P, D. Helem, of Ohutu.

The Premier informed the House on Monday night that arrangements had already been made to increase the amount to be lent to returned soldiers on chattel security from £SOO to £750.

' As will be seen by advertisement in another column the official opening of the local bowling green takes place to-morrow at 2.30 p.m. Lady friends y and wives of members are kindly requested to bring a basket for afternoon tea.

At the Taihape Red Cross Shop on Saturday, Bennett’s Siding will be on duty. The ladies have a fine stock of produce, cakes and confectionery ? also seasonable flora and fauna. The gentlemen have 1000 feet of timber which will be sold by auction.

The General Manager of Railways states that a modified system for the selection of seats on express trains has now been adopted. The Wellington of Commerce some time ago induced the Government to make arrangements for reserving seats at the central booking office, and it has now been arranged that seats may also be selected.

Mr Jack Healey has just received word that his brother Edward Healey who left for the front with the First Rifle Brigade and who has been an inmate of the Walton-on-Thames Hospital for the past 15 months with a shattered arm, is shortly returning to New Zealand. Ted Healey is a nephew of Mr Richard Healey of this town, and is well-known hereabout.

In the House on Monday night, in reply to a remark by Mr Jennings, the Minister of Defence stated that he had made a mistake last week when he informed the House that it was not intended to send men of 43 years and upwards out of the country a s members of the Expeditionary Forces. He should have said that men of 44 years and upwards would not be sent.

That the Minister of Education has the support of the great majority of members in the House in his action in insisting on domestic science being a compulsory subject for girls, in secondary schools was made evident by the pronounced chorus of “Hear, hear,” all round the House which gseeted Mr Hanan’s remark that he was determined to see that domestic science was given its rightful place in the school course of instruction. A German aviator “successfully” dropped bombs on the German prisoners’ camp at Amiens on a recent Sunday.

“The Divinity of Motherhood” is the title of the picture that is to be shown at Town Hall on Saturday night. In the city double prices were charged for admission, but no extra charge is to be made to Taihape picture patrons. The Wellington Times says it is a picture that merits a subsidy from any State. The Dominion says “Perhaps at no other time in the history of the world has there been more need for active propaganda against racial suicide, and it is doubtful if ever there has been devised so powerful a preachment against this as is embodied in the picture “The Divinity of Motherhood.’

Dr Harrison J. Hunt, surgeon to the Crocker Land Expedition, which went into the Arctic regions four years ago, on hi s return to New York, recently, stated that news of the outbreak of war did not reach the expedition until eight months after the first gun was fired. From the northernmostcolonies of Denmark it travelled by dog sledge and Esquimo messengers. The messengers spread the news to the members of the Cape York tribe. The natives immediately were stricken with a horror of Germany and declared they would flee to the Polar ice caps as soon as the Central Powers began to invade Polar regions.

“Good advice is beyond price.’ ; — Proverb. You cannot afford to overlook any good advice affecting the health of yourself or your children. When coughs or colds make their appearance, the best remedy you can obtain is Baxter’s Lung Preserver, which has been used and praised for over fifty years. It not only. relieves chest and bronchial troubles, but also tones up and vitalizes the whole system. Keep “Baxetcr’s” handy at all times. A big bottle costs only 1/10 and an occasional dose will help to keep you fit and well.