LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Either this man is a most impudent liar or else my witnesses are,” remarked a counsel at the Wellington Magistrate’s Court. “It’s obvious someone is,” remarked the Magistrate.

“In 'America,' ’said Professor Trueblood in a lecture in Wellington, “it has been made a crime to sell any liquor to "a man in uniform. lam sorry to say that in Sydney many times drunken soldiers accosted me in the street and asked for money to get back home. I generally said to them, ‘I think you had Tetter march home. It will do you good/ ”

Captain Baldwin says the Cl camp for testing semi-unfits has proved extraordinarily useful.

Mr L. Daws is a buyer of cocksfoot in any quantity, cash on delivery. An advt. appears on page 1. .

A sawyer-machinist is advertised Tor by the Evans Bay Timber Company, Kilbirnie, Wellington.

The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company is paying Is 5d per lb. for butter-fat this month.

Mr. .T Mortland, has been appointed agent for the State Fire Office for Tallin pc and district,

Mr Robertson, General Manager of the State Insurance Office, and Mr. Pavitt, Palmerston district manager, arc on a visit to Taihape on business in connection with their office

Messrs. A. W. Gardner and Co., drapers and milliners, have an important announcement on page 1 to-day, to which we direct the attention of our readers.

The Cabinet has decided that the minimum wage for married men in the Public Service, and also in the Postal Department, shall be £156 per year.

The Taihape Tradesmen’s Association notify that all shops will bo closed on Tuesday, 22nd January (Anniversary Day) and that on the following Thursday shops will remain open all day.

Mr J. F. Menzies, Town Clerk, notifies that auctioneers’ licenses have been issued by the Borough Council to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co, Ltd., and to Mr F. Ward, of the Tui Street Mart.

Importations from the United States bid fair to become luxuries judging by the way freight rates are advancing. Recent quotations by cable, give freights for sailers at £S per ton, and for steamers £l4 per ton. This means adding considerably to the landed cost of goods when insurance, Avar# rates and other charges arc included.

The following are the handicaps for the 50 yards swimming race to beheld at the Municipal B’aths this evening at 5 o’clock; —Kelsall scr, Baadeley W. Knox 1 sec, Partridge 2 secs, Taylor 2 secs, Dymock 3 secs, Gieseking -1 secs, McDonnell 4 secs, Boughton 5 secs, Darvill 6 secs, James 6 secs, O’Keefe 7 secs, O’Dunkley 7 secs, Kilkolly 9 sees;

Owing to the public meeting in connection with the Women’s Working Club last night falling on the usual working night of the Club, there was no work done in preparing parcels for despatch. This will consequently throw the work considerably behind. A special effort is being made on Friday night next at the Club Rooms to overtake the arrears, and everyone who can possibly , attend are earnestly invited to help. i

Very few . placeman the Dominion can boast of a record in the war of such merit as that held by the residents of Stewart Island, and to which Sir Joseph Ward referred the other day. Before the war the island had a population of 350 men, women, and children all counted, and of this number 46 males have gone forth to fight, representing 13 per cent, of the total population. Only one of the 46 was drawn in the ballot.

For the father of 14 children to bury his eldest son on the field of battle cannot be said to be a very common occurrence (says the Southland Times). That sad duty was performed, though, in the case of Pte. E, W. (Ted) Pullar, M.C., of Grove Bush, Pte. Pullar was 25 years of age, -but his father is also in the ranks of the New- Zealand Expeditionary Force, having left with the 11th Reinforcements_ The son fell on October 12, a week after he secured his decoration, and his father, who was in the same part of the line, assisted at the last rites.

With regard to reservists who will reach 44 years of age before they arrive in camp, it. has been definitely laid down, states a Christchuch newspaper, that balloted reservists who arc under 44 at the time they are drawn in the ballot, and volunteers who are under 44 at the time they are attested and medically examined, will be sent to camp, if they are found physically fit, and will “carry on.“ even if they attain the age of 44 while in camp. Such reservists will be classed C2 in camp only if the Medical Board considers that their apparent age is such as to render them unsuitable for training.