LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

One or two furnished rooms are wanted by an advertiser.

Four five-pound notes were lost near the Post Office on Saturday. Finder on returning same to this office will receive £5 reward.

Mr. W. J. H. MeCormiek boot and shoe maker and importer notifies that ho will allow a penny in everey shilling discount on all cash-purchases, excepting lines sold at clearance sale prices.

The Government has decided to have motion pictures of the military training camps and other militaryplace taken shortly, the idea being to preserve in the National Museum these records of New Zealand's share in the war. It is understood that the flms, when completed, will be slbwn in this and in other countries.

The farming population of Northern France is gradually trickling back to its native soil as the Germans are forced from it by the repeated "pushes" of the British and French armies. It is estimated that about 25,400 persons have returned to their holdings since the Germans began to retreat.

As showing *"«w some soldiers have a premonition, a letter received by a Gisborne resident from a young man who made the supreme sacrifice in the Passchendaele attack, contained the statement that "somehow or another I cannot get rid of the feeling that I am going to catch it," and he asked the recipient to assist in cheering up the home circle if the worst did happen.

"The Dominion produces more per head of the population than any country in the world," says the Hon % W. D. S MacDonald. In three years and four months the Imperial Government, has purchased beef, mutton, lamb, cheese, butter, and wool to the value of £45,000,000 and these purchases did not include this season's butter and cheese.

Cool frocks for the children in pale blue, pink, and saxe Jap crepe neatly embroidered, size 18 to 36, 5/6 to 8/11.—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd

Mr L. B. H. de Latour offers a reward for the return of a lady's lost gold watch and chain.

A tailer-out is wanted at the Turangarere Sawmill Company's mills at HiMtahi. Sbir-e.: shillings per day is offered.

A strike was threatened at some offal works on Wednesday because Australian men were employed. The management of the works (owned by a Melbourne firm) told the Australians there was no room for them.

It transpired at the Masterton Magistrate's Court (says the Wairarapa Age) that two young men and two young girls consumed a dozen bottles of beer while indulging in a picnic party on the banks of the Waipoua River on Sunday afternoon.

A land sale under conduct of the Registrar of the Supreme Court will be held by the New Zealand Loan and .Mercantile Agency Co., at the sale-

yards, Taihape, at 12.45 on Wednesday, January 16th. Particulars will be found on page 8 of to-day's issue.

A man to drive a cart is' wanted at Johnson's cordial factory. Good

wages will be paid to a suitable man. The Wanganui Harbour Board's revenue for the past year was a record, the figures being £20,463, compared with £17,522 in 1916. Am*' vals numbered 907, compared with 756.

Some of the New Zealand soldiers who recently returned speak very highly of the kindly treatment received in the Old Country from the British people. It seemed to one as if the people of London tried to do too much for the men from overseas. It

was quite a common thing for a man !o stop me, he said, open his cigarette case, and say, "Have a smoke, New Zealand."

A very sad story concerning the return of a soldier has been told to the Sitham paper He arrived recently, and was surprised and disappointed at 'there being no friends or relations to meet him. On the way up to Wanganui in the train he learned that dur-

ing his absence his father and mothem had both died, also a brother, and that the heme had now changed hands.

The following police changes are announced: — Sub-Inspector Brobcrg has been transferred to Wellington, and has been replaced by Senior-Ser-geant Wohlmann, of Christchurch, promoted to the rank of sub-inspector. Sergeant Lanigan, of Auckland, is promoted senior sergeant to fill the vacancy at Newton. Constables Sweeney and Morton have been promoted to the rank of sergeant and transferred to Auckland.

Says the Masterton Age: A rumour is current that members of the Expeditionary force, who have just returned to New Zealand on a few

weeks' furlough, have been granted leave "without pay," until they report again for service. We mention the rumour, so that the authorities may have the opportunity of contradicting it if it is without foundation. Frankly, we do not think it possible that men who have served their country well for a lengthy period, and have come home for a few weeks' respite, could have their pay stopped during the short while they are on furlough. A statement from the authorities would relieve of anxiety the minds of those who have heard the rumour.

A prominent Manchester manufacturer expressed the opinion in a circular to the trade, that it would take ten years to get as cheap cotton as there was in the early part of 19157 He gave as the reason that the enormous requirements of the world after the war will be such that even if the price of raw material fell, it would only be small in comparison to the rise that has taken place. Shirtings made from Egyptian yarn are selling in England as three times the rates ruling prior to the war. The fact that samples of cotton grown at Samoa have been sent to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce raises the question as to whether there may be a chance of this industry being developed in the future.

An astonishing total of what waste of bread means is given by the Church Army Gazette, in the following supposed" autobiography of a wasted slice of bread. I measure three inches by two. My thickness is half an inch. My weight is exactly one ounce I am wasted once a day by forty-eight million people in Britain. I am the bit left over, the slice eaten when rcaHy I was not wanted; I am the waste crust. Collect me and my companions for a week and we shall amount to 9380 tons of bread Tw 0 shiploads of good bread wasted—! Almost as much as twenty submarines—if they had luck—could sink! If you throw me away, or waste me, you are as good as adding twenty submarines to the German navy." *

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