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Taihape Daily Times, 20 October 1917, Page 4

There were 24 fatal accidents on the New Zealand railways in the year A plucky' rescue from dro\viiing was recently made by a young New Zealander in %dncy Harbour. Captain Hare, a returned soldier, who was suffering from shell-shock, fell into the sea. An 18-year-old, lad named John Mclndoe, son of Mrs John Mclndoe, (nee Miss Mabel Hill, daughter of Mr Chas Hill, sen., of Wellington) and of Mr Mclndoe, printer, Dunodin, promptly jumped into the water and succeeded in saving the officer's life.

Owing to Monday next being Labour Day there will be no publication of the "Taihape Times" on that day.

Married couples, farm, mill, and shed hands; also domestic helps, are advertised for by Shute 's Labour Exchange.

It is understood that among the appeals now being received against military service arc many from men in the camp.

Motor cylists and push-bike riders who have been in the habit of using the footpaths of the borough had better discontinue the practice, as future offenders in this respect will be proceeded by the Council authorities. •

Entries for the rink tournament to be held in the local bowling green on Monday close with Mr D. Neagle, tonight at 8 o'clock. Play will commence at 10 o'clock in the morning and 1.30 in the afternoon.

The Taihape Tennis Club will officially open the season on the local courts on Mondaj r , at 2 p.m. All memIjers; 'intending members, and theftr frients are extended a cordial invitation to be present. Afternoon tea will be dispensed by the ladies.

Swimmers, and those interested in the natatorial pastime are intimated by advertisement in this issue that the annual meeting of the Taihape Swimming Club will be held next Tuesday evening at 7.30 o'clock s-harp in the Fire Brigade Hall. A full attendance of members and intending members is requested.

A correspondent has written asking us to make a request to the management of the Labour Night concert that Miss Teresa McEnroe should sing "Come Back to Erin" and "Mother Mac-hree," these two numbers being very popular with Wellington audiences who invariably make a special request that Miss McEnroe should render these popular ballads.

In our .report of 'the 'Red Cross Concert yesterday we inadvertently omitted one song, that contributed by Mr. J. Murray, entitled "Back Home ,in Tinnessoe" —an .omission all the more to be' regretted in that it was one of the; most enjoyable items of the evening. and was extremely well received by the audience. This plantation melody is full of light and shade, and has a charm all its own Mr. Murray's interpretation was all that could be desired.

For the year ended March 31, 1917. the net profit on the working of the New Zealand railways was £1,873,946, compared with £1,637,473 for the previous year. The percentage of profit to capital invested was 5.30 per cent, and for the preceding year, 4.72. Net earnings per average mile open were £632, as against £555 for the previous year. The number of ordinary passengers, carried during the year was 144,173,115 a decrease of 28,391 on the number for the previous year.

The question was raised at the meeting of the Wellington Branch of the New Zealand Teachers' Institute as to whether a school teacher, has a right, as Mr J. C. Webb put it, "to go on the public platform and abuse his master." He did not know what the legal rights were, but it was plain to him that an individual teacher had no moral right. Mr W. H. L. Foster: Well, at least a teacher has the right as a citizen to go on to the platform and discuss matters affecting education. ''

A peculiar mishap recently befel one of the young family of Mr and Mrs L. Mills, aged 2 years and 4 months (states the Kaikoura correspondent of the Lyttelton Times). The child took into its mouth the spout of a kettle containing water just on boiling point. Apparently the child's lips partially adhered to the kettle spout, because they were much burnt. The child also drew off some of the water and its throat was so badly scalded that the passage was almost blocked, and suffocation nearly ensued. In addition the hot water affected the child's stomach. For some days the little sufferer's life was despaired of, but recovery is now regarded as assured. ,

At the Auckland Police Court on Wednesday last, a number of female fortune tellers appeared as the result of a •"round-up" by ,the police of these harpies who fatten on the credulity of a certain section of the community. One of the accused had a very vivid imagination as her predictions (confided to the police matron and her assistant) besides covering the usual ground journeys, marriages, and the welfare of relatives at the front—included a prophecy that the war would end in 1925, and would be won by the Chinese. ' Magistrate Fraser proved to be unsympathetic as well as unimaginative, and in addition to making some caustic remarks about the fortune-telling profession which he characterised as "tommy-rot," handed out to each of Ifre accused' a term of fourteen days' imprisonment, holding that the maximum fine of £5 allowed by law was useless as a.deterrent.

A cable was received yesterday by Mr. Svensen, Ngawaka, stating that his son, Private E. H. J. Svensen, had been wounded in the right leg on the 9th October and that he was now in Hospital in England.

The Dairy Division is the only civilised division in the whole of the Government Departments," said Mr W. T. Strand at Whiteman's Valley (Wellington). "The Agricultural Department, especially the Dairy Division, was always prepared to go out of its way to co-operate with the farmers so that production could be encouraged.

To-morrow will tie. a day of special services in connection with the Methodist Chuch. It -is the second and last Sunday of the Val Trigge Mission and large congregations are expected. If you have not heard Eev. Trigge. do not miss this opportunity. If you have heard him come yourself and bring others. The Love Feast at 3 p.m. is for Christians of all denominations, and all who come will be heartily welcomed.

A glaring case of evasion of the School Attendance Act came before Mr Hewitt,, JS.M., at >ohakunc, the other day. Mr Skinner, the Wanganui Education Board's truancy officer, proceeded against Frank Mischewsky, on nine charges of not sending his boy regularly to school. The lad is almost 14 years of age, and has not yet passed the second standard but has been employed driving commercial travellers to and from Eaetihi. and is now driving for a carrier. Fines and costs totalling £S lis lOd were inflicted. Only recently, the same defendant was fined £6 \ 16s on similar charges, and. altogether he has been fined over £3O for the absence of his son from school!