LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 13 December 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The recent Manawatu Spring Show yielded a profit of £553 16s 3d.

Persons intending to send Christmas greeting cable messages to soldiers for delivery in England or France should lodge messages not later than next Saturday.

German troops recently were paraded before Emperor William of Germany without their rifles presumably through fear that violence might be attempted against the Kaiser.

(Sir John Simon, former AttorneyGeneral has been given a commission in the Army, and has joined the British forces in France. Sir John gave up a legal practice said to be worth £20,000 a yea'r.

Wo are asked to announce that the public will greatly assist the Postal Department by posting correspondence and printing matter and by sending telegraphic greetings as many days before Christmas as possible.

A iphysieian, iof Bru.ssebi, lescaped from Belgium, states that as a result of the German occupation the scarcity of food had seriously undermined the health of the people. The Germans had systematically taken all sugar and fat.

It is understood that the Royal Commission appointed to inquire into the expenditure of the Defence Department will consist of Mr Justice Stringer Mr Peter Barr (accountant Dunedin), and Mr. Charles Rhodes (Auckland.)

the present and Ist January. Murray's cash boot store has a special notification to T day with reference a line of exceptional value they are showing in ladies' strap or pull-on footwear.

Messrs A. W. Gardner and Co., in the first page of to-day's issue, give particulars of new showing of summer wear, which make suitable and acceptable gifts for ladies.

From Messrs Edlin and Eteveneaux of the Ford motor garage, Taihape,,we have received a very attractive wall calendar. A handsome young lady chaffeur, holding the steering wheel of a car, with the motto "In good hands."

Army authorities are likely to frown on another innovation in the use of regimental badges (says a London paper). Youg women secure from their fiances a pair of regimental badges and employ them towards the decoration of their shoe buckles.

Mr. W. H. Veno, chairman of the Column Club, Manchester, offers the sum of £IOOO to the British airman who drops the first bomb on Berlin. He states in a letter announcing this offer: "The IhraMery df our ; aim>Bn needs no incentive but the act deserves its practical reward."

I recently met a man (says a London writer) who derives a remarkably good income from a curious business. He buys up the cotton shrouds in which frozen meat is wrapped, When boiled down they sufficient fat to bring him in substantial cheques from the soapmakers!

In referring to the Dominion's exports at Whakatane, the Prime Minister said that he believed that this year's exports would show a total value of over 32 millions sterling. In proportion to its population, New Zealand this year stood either first or secong amongst the producing countries of the world. He believed it was first.

Special cars for ladies only are to be provided on the Auckland-Wellington express trains from Sunday last. The centre of the train, will have accommodation at one end for 12 first-class seats, and at the other end for 20 second-class seats, and separate lavatories and washing conveniences are provided each class of traveller. A woman attendant will be in charge of the car, and among the conveniences provided, will be a gas ring for the purpose of heating water or milk. No extra charge will be made for travelling in the special cars, and seats in them may be reserved in the usual way in both first and second classes.

Speaking in Christchurch, Mr. W. Bottrell, said that in New- Zealand there was a fair number of well-to-do Germans who were Siipable of doing much mischief. The authorities, he thought, should be more active than they had been in the past. He knew half a dozen Germans who should not be at large. It was an insult to Britishers to have to meet these men. of even to do business with them, The wives of men who would have to go into camp soon should not have to meet these Germans on the street, in shops, and on tramcars. It would be painful for wives to know that these men were living in security here, perhaps earning good salaries, when their husbands were fighting the enemy. His firm had refused to do business with a firm which employed an unnaturalised German who w T as in receipt of a good salary. That man could hardly walk without the "goose step." He was quite at large. He had the freedom of the whole country and of the port of Lyttelton and he might do a great deal of harm.