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Taihape Daily Times, 26 November 1917, Page 4

The Waingawa Freezing Works commenced operations for the season on Thursday. It is generally anticipated that the season will be shorter than usual.

The next ballot under the Military Service Act is to be held to-day. when some 5000 names will be drawn from Class A of the Second Division of the Expeditionary Force Reserve. The list of names will be published probably on December 4 or 5.

From letters to hand by last mail it is learnt that Privates Ted Lenihan "Marts’' McLaughlin, "Snowy” Dawson, and Percy Stitt are "board ed” for return to New Zealand and arc awaiting a boat. They should arrive back just before or after Christmas.

It is stated that practically all the men drawn in the first ballot of the Second Division have lodged appeals. Sale of Liquor Restriction Act, closing hotels for the sale of liqour at 6 o ’clock tin the Jcvening, comes into force next Saturday, December I, and this law remains in force during the continuance of the war and for six months after.

Mr T. C. Dawson, speaking at the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, said he did not think New Zealand jubilated enough when great military and naval successes were achieved. He moved: "That this Council, express its appreciation of the British victory on the west front.” This was carried, with cheers for Sir Douglas Haig.

“I would sooner trust a thief than a liar,” said Mr. S. E. McCarthy, S.M., at the P etone Juvenile Court, when dealing with two young lads who showed special depravity in the direction of stealing bicycles. Mr. McCarthy is one of our coming administrators of justice, and" he seems to have the gift of making maxims and axioms. He promises to be an oasi» in the legal desert.

A recent English paper tells of a parcel sent to a soldier which, as many of the soldiers would say, has travelled “some.” It was originally sent from Surbiton some months before it was returned lately! It reached France after the man had left for the East, and, from the stamps showed that it had been to Egypt, India, Salonika, and Mesopotamia. Despite ail its travels the contents were said" to be fairly well preserved.

The Prime Minister stated on Friday that while, he was not at liberty to publish the names of the ships coming to New Zealand for cargo, he was able to say that the outlook at the present was better than it had been for some time past. The Shipping Controller’s Department, the British Board of Trade, and the new Food Controller were evidently anxious to ship a considerable quantity of the moat and dairy produce now in New Zealand stores before the season was in full swing, and he was now confident this would be done.

Private P. O’Connor, who stands 7ft. Gin, high, and weighs 20st 101 b., is said to be the tallest man in the British Army (remarks the Sydney Daily Telegraph). He returned to Sydney from active service for the second time a few days ago. A special hammock had to be constructed for him, and his walking-stick would serve as a tent-pole. His hand can stretch to two octaves on the piano. He has a twin brother the same height as himself, who is a blacksmith in Canada, xhough he was placed as a guardsman at the High Commissioner’s office in London for IS weeks to advertise Australia, he is in reality an Irishman from Limerick. With pride ho shows the marks of wounds received in Afghanistan, but is reticent of the pait he has played in this war, though he has twice seen service.