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Taihape Daily Times, 16 October 1917, Page 4

A very heavy Australian mail, weighing about 60 tons, the first from the Commonwealth for over two weeks, arrived from Dunedin at Wellington on Sunday. .

One of the soldiers who appealed to the Wellington Military Servictet Board for leave said he was partowner of some land in Southland. "How much?" was asked. "Sixty-five thousand acres."

Questioned regarding shipping supply for overseas the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey states: "We cannot look far forward, but the shipping outlook between now and the middle of December is good. But for the fact that there are still large quantities of meat in store it could be regarded as very good indeed."

The proprietress of the Hautapu Tea Rooms is in want of a capable assistant.

A meeting of ladies in connection with the forthcoming children's ball will be held in the Technical School to-morroAv afternoon at 3 o'cock.

Mrs Morris and family, of Ohuto, acknowledged the expressed sympathy from friends in their late sad bereavement.

Owing to enlistments the numerical strength of the Christchurch Fire Brigade has been reduced from 48 to 31. The Minister of Munitions is to be asked to assist in exempting the remaining members of the staff.

It is stated that two cadets in the Christchurch office of the Tourist Department, who were receiving £6O a year each, have left the public service to take positions with local firms, who are paying them "£2OO a year each.

"I think our Department is absolutely unique in the Public Service on account of the youth of its staff," remarked a representative of the Public Trust Office in appealing for one of the local staff before the Third Military Service Board in Wellington yesterday

For a line of onions from the Wellington district, Townsend and Paul on Saturday realised £93 6s 8d per ton in their Wellington auction rooms. Onions are selling at Is per lb in the shops, and are 4d per lb de;

the choicest apples, which are ticketed at 8d per lb.

Among the first measures before the House this -week will be the Sale of Liquor Restriction Act It is understood that although the Government will agree to the postponement of early closing till December 1, it is not disposed to accept some other new features inserted hj r the Council.

"The work of the Police Department has been heavier than usual," says the annual report of the Dominion Analyst, "364 samples of liquor, 55 of medicines, and" a great variety of sweets being examined during the year. 'There were nine cases of suspected poisoning in one of which morphine was. found, in another methylated spirit, and in a third traces of arsenic."

"A House of Commons as a House, cannot exercise any control over public expenditure," says the London Spectator. "It is too large, too various, too ill-informed. But through a committee of moderate size, chosen specially for the purpose it should be able to regain for itself those powers of revision and of supervision which have passed altogether from it." :,.-..* Wi . -..., 4 :—.-..

"When the war ends," says Mr J. L. Garvin (foremost of London editors), "we have to find work for 8,000,000 persons, and build at the smallest "computation, 150,000 houses, with a lack of raw material for the purpose. France and Belgium cannot wait for their rebuilding, but must take the first-comers. It is the most imperative and urgent problem Great Britain ever had to -face."

The Railway Department has decided to provide on the long-distance mail trains special cars for ladies only. In the case of the North Island Main Trunk line the cars will carry a female attendant. The Department has been able to meet this need of the public through the discontinuance of the dining-cars placing at its disposal fifteen cars in the Norffi. Island and six in the South Island. This will enable special ladies' carriages to be provided, and also a generous extension of the sleeping-car accommodation.

A controversy has been agitating a select circle of High Church Anglicans and others in Melbourne as to whether it is the proper thing for members of the Church of England to confess. The Primate (Archbishop Wright) ha s been requested by the Rev. E. S. Wats ford to summon the Court appointed to deal with such matters. He had previously communicated with Archbishop Clarke, but received no answer. If the Primate should summon the he proposes to chaTge Dr. Clarke with •having permitted doctrines and practices detrimental to the interests of the Church.

In reply to "Patriotic": —It is ascertained that Sergt-Major de Loree was discharged from military service with one of the best records given to returned men. He fought in the Boer War and in the present war at Gallipoli and in France. He was severely wounded and was not expected to recover, the ambulance corps deeming it inadvisable to take up the room on a Red Cross ship leaving for England with his case, it being considered hopeless. Why -he is not reinstated in a similar position on the military staff he occupied here before befog ordered to the Front, there is no-fa-formation available to Bhjovr.