LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Messrs P. Ward and Co., in addition to selling a lot of unclaimed luggage at their Tui Street mart on Saturday, will also sell heifer calves, store" pigs, Indian Runner ducks, spring cart, gig, besides the usual fruit and produce in season. ; :........

A Press Association message from Feilcling states that 60 Agricultural Course boys of the Wanganui Education district are iu camp at Parorangi, on Mr. E. Short’s farm, near Feilding. Mr. Short and his experts will give practical lessons with Herefords, Rom neys, and Soutbdowus, etc. The boys include one from north of Wbangarei, and another from Victoria.

It may not be generally known that 20 per cent of the injuries soldiers receive arc face and head wounds, which require dental treatment as well as surgical attention_ It must also be remembered that a" wounded man with bad teeth makes a slow recovery. In the United States National Army there is to bo a dentist for every 500 men.

In a few r days a Gazette will be issued fixing the price of bread throughout Ncw r Zealand. As conditions vary in different localities, the standard of price is to be uniform. It will provide that the retail price chargeable shall be that prevailing in the particular district on a specified date prior to that on wdiich a number of bakers recently made increases. The Board of Trade, as a result of its investigations, is evidently satisfied that the rises made were justified having regard to the current price of flour.

The question of Germany’s possessions in the Pacific was touched on by Sir Joseph Ward in an address at the Chamber of Commerce in Wellington Actually, some people, he said wanted to give back the islands in the Pacific to Germany—to give these fine bases for aeroplanes and for submarines, and coaling places for warships, to the enemy! We wore going to have the British Empire stronger than before the war, and surely we were not mad enough to give Germany back these bases in the Pacific to enable the Germans to become strong enough to fight us with success in the future. (Applause.)

Taranaki was cut off from communication with the outside world on Tuesday. The local papers published no cable messages,.

Members of the Wanganui Chamber of Commerce passed through Taihape this morning on their way to Raetihi, to investigate conditions generally.

At Mr. Z, Y. Davies’ clearing sale a sheep given by Mr. Davies was sold by the Loan and Mercantile Co., in aid of patriotic funds, which realised £ll 10s. The proceeds werd to be equally divided between Bennett# Siding day at the Red Cross Shop and the Women’s Working Club. The bids are hereunder placed as given in j the list. It wall be noticed that Mr G. j H. Brown, of Taoroa, did some gener- I ous running up. The bids H. Brown £1 Is, W. T. Williams £l, Robert Wilkie £2, G. H. Brown £i, R. Richardson £l, Otaihape Freezing Co. £l, James Smith £l, G. H. Brown £l, Paki Potaka £l, G. H.« Brown £1 10s. Total: £ll 10s.

Some idea of the amount of smoke that was blown south from the King Country bush fires may be gained from the fact that the Mararoa, which left Lyttelton, at 6.30 p m. on Monday, in bad weather, picked up the smoke cloud at 4 a.m., anl did not berth at Wellington till mid-day. An Auckland passenger by the steamer tcld a reporter that the smoke was far worse than a fog, and was quite impenetrable. The Mararoa, after fighting a head wind and - sea, could not make Wellington Heads, and hung about for some hours, using the lead every few minutes. On one occasion she was so close in-shore that the propeller began to up the mud, but finally she made the channel and got into port. The passenger stated that the smoke was thick enough to make his eyes smart.|