LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The losses of the British Expeditionary Force in • action and deaths from wounds are about 7 per cent of all the total of men sent to France since the beginning of the war.

It is rumoured that the Mayor of Taumarunui (Mr. 'A. S t Laird) and Mr. W. H. Wackrow will be candidates for the Waimarino seat at the next Parliamentary elections.

As the war continues, the price of advertising space in the papers In London steadly goes up. In November last the Daily Mirror advertising rate was £IOO per column and the Sunday Pictorial £2OO per column*

The opinion was expressed at the Appeal Board by Captain Walker m Palmerston that th e time would come when people would be compelled by legislation to undertake essential work in cases where they were engaged in non-essential industries.

Mrs. L. Dean, of Winiata, has just received cable advice that her son Louis has been wounded while in action in France The young man has many friends in this district who will be glad to hear of his complete recove^

The Commissioner of Taxes draws attention to taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day's issue that the due date of payment of the In-come-tax and Special War-Tax is on the 28th day of February, 1918. Additional tax will accrue If the tax is not paid on or before 18th February, 1918.

An extraordinary accident happened at the Kaiti Freezing Works, Glsborne, a few days ago. A slaughterman named Hyde was about to kill a sheep, when it kicked the knife out of his hands. The knife pierced his left wrist, cutting the veins and arteries. Medical attendance was called and the patient sent to the hospital.

The "limit" in conscription is said to have been reached in England by the calling up of a' five-months' old baby at Hull for re-examination a one-legged man on crutches and a deaf and dumb baker are two other notable examples New Zealand can beat them all. We have gazetted the dead for desertion.

Torchon lace and insertion, pretty designs, and dependable qualities—1/6, 1/9, l/ll per dozen yards. The Big Sale.—Collinsou and Gifford's Ltd.

'A capable waitress is wanted at the Hautapu Tea Rooms.

- Wages from 15s to £2 weekly are being offered at Shute's Labour Exchange for domestics, farm youths, mill and station hands

Mr. T. H. Davey, sawmiller, Mataroa, wants a yardman for stacking and classing timber at 16s a day, ana a bushman at 17s.

A black pony, branded on right side of neck, lost from Utiku last Tuesday, is advertised for. A reward will be paid on it being returned to Mrs. Cox, Utiku.

An Australian lieutenant receives 21s a day, a captain 26s a day, a major 35s a day, a lieutenant-colonel 45s a day, a colonel and brigadier-general 53s a day

A return of officers and men of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have returned to this country up to December 31 was 14,141, of whom 11,675 have been discharged up to the same date.

It is reported, says the Stratford Post, that a Taranaki dairy company has just received a demand from tlie Government to pay back 3 per cen:. of the amount that had been previously refunded to the company on account of the butter tax. This is an instance of book-keeping muddling that would not be excused in the case of a private business firm.

New Zealanders who remember tlie visit of Eugene Sandow, the famous strong man, to the Dominion about twelve years ago, will be interested to learn that he is reported to have been shot in the Tower of London for espionage in the early stages of the war. It is said that his tour of the world, when he visited New Zealand, was in the interests of the German Government, copious information being furnistoed with regard to every town visited

A fatal accident occurred at the Glen Oroua Dairy Co's factory at Glen Oroua pn Friday morning, William Robertson, 17 years of age, being killed instantaneously. With two men, he was attending to some machinery, and was caught in the belting of the separator. He was whirled round on the belting and carried up to the ceiling, which he struck with considerable force. When released, he was dead, his neck having been broken. He had been only three days' in the factory. His parents reside at Mangatainoka.

At Napier last week, when an apparently healthy man presented himself for examination, he got a shock on being rejected on account of having a very bad heart. He was told he had leaking valves, and was advised to consult an independent doctor at once.,This. he.did on the next day, and received another shock on being told that there was absolutely npthing wrong with him. Another man who went up for the same examination, armed with a sheaf of medical certificates,, was one of the only two of the married men who were passed for the Expeditionary Force! [.

The Baldwin Locomotive Works is building one locomotive every working hour of the day. This industrial triumph was announced by Alba B. Johnson, president of Baldwin's, says the "Philadelphia Ledger," Baldwin's with its 20,000 employees, is the largest locomotive plant in the United States, and is doing the bulk of the business for foreign governments and America. "The Baldwin Locomotive Works," Mr. Johnson said, "is turning out seventy-eight locomotives a week. This is at the rate of more than one locomtiv e for every working hour of the day. It is not a maximum acomplishment. We shall do more."

It appears inevitable that every community should have its quota of hoodlums, and Taihape, we are sorry to state, has a few "representatives of these obnoxious gentry. At the local swimming baths last week two or three of them conducted themselves in an objectionable manner. These young bloods evidently imagined that the payment of a small entrance fee to the baths gave them license to do just as they pleased, but immediately they overstepped the bounds of decorum and propriety they were remonstrated with and finally ejected from the baths by the officials of the club. Last night several of these young fellows forced their way into the baths after closing hours, and made night hideous by their objectionable conduct. With regard to the latter incident we will make no comment at present, as the matter will probably be ventilated in another place; but we will have ho hesitation in publishing the names of the culprits if what is alleged against them is proved to be true. While the officials of the Swimming Club are pleased to see all and sundry at the baths, they insist that patrons shall conduct themselves in a proper manner, and any breach of gentlemanly conduct will be put down with a firm liarui.

TAIHAPE BOY'S DEATH.

The usual cabled information has come to Mrs. J. Mitchell, of Turangarere, advising her of the death of Edwin Abraham, who went to the front with the main force leaving Australia. The deceased was a brother of the late Mrs. J_ McTaggart, Ngawaka, and a nephew of Ngahuia Pine. Young Abraham was educated at the Taihapc public school and High School, and as he evinced more than ordinary ability he was sent to the Hawkesbury College, N.S.W., where his education was being continued when war was declared. He enlisted in the Australian Main Body with a number of College mates, then being only 18 years old. He served for over three years with the Australian forces and was invalided back to Australia early in this year. Pneumonia supervened and he succumbed on January 18th, and was buried at Coburg cemetery, with full military honours, on the 19th.

Messages of condolence have been received by Mrs Mitchell from the Prime Minister, Sir Joseph Ward and the Hon James Allen, Minister of Defence, Young Abraham was known in his Taihape school days as a bright, well-mannered, highly intelligent youth, and he was being educated for an important and responsible vocation. \