LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 27 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

On? thousand good fencing posts to be put on trucks at any railway station are advertised for by J J. Patterson, Manai.

The total number of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who have returned to New Zealand up to the end of February was 16,282

Messrs. Collinson and Cunninghamo, the Palmerston North drapery establishment, will bo open all day Easter Saturday. Owing to increased, train facilities the firm recommends its patrons to shop on Saturday.

Easter holiday train arrangements arc advertised in another column today (Wednesday) and to-morrow the usual 5.50 p m. train from Taihape to Ohakune will leave Taihape at 6.15 p.m., arriving at Ohakune at 9 p.m,

As a result of the fires in the Waimarino district, there has been heavy mortality of game and. fish. The Waimarino- streams were particularly well stocked with trout, but since the fire dead fish have been seen floating in thousands, It has been a windfall for the Maoris, trout being one of their principal articles of diet.

A married woman stated in the Magistrate’s Court at Mastcrton on. Thursday morning, that her husband had allowed her £1 per week for housekeeping. Apart from the milk bill and gas account, she kept the home going on the £1 per week, “You must be a remarkably economical housekeeper, ” remarked His Worship.

Ladies’ all-wool Jason cashmere hose ii> : grey, nigger, and navy, 6/11 per pair,\in heather mixture cashmere hose, 4/6 \pair.—Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. \

At Davcy’s Mataroa sawmill a tailer out is wanted at 16s a day.

Six motor cars, at great bargain prices, are offered to clear by Mr. Stan Peyton. These cars are all good, but must be sold if give-away prices have to be accepted.

Mr. Stan Peyton has purchased 35 made to measure suits, left on the makers, at a huge reduction on original price. All the advantage of this purchase is to be passed on to Mr. Peyton’s customers.

The Amusement Tax, which came into force on November 1, had up to the end of February, realised about £13,000 and it is anticipated that the total receipts for twelve months will amount to about £40,000.

The Railway Department notifies that the railways have not at the present time facilities for providing more than a strictly limited service for the Easter holidays, therefore no special facilities can be given for travelling to race meetings. All passengers are strongly advised to travel before 2Sth March, where practicable, and return after Ist .April.

“At present there are evidences of great extravagance on the part of the people of the country,’’ stated Mr. Harold B'eauchamp at a meeting held in Wellington, on Monday to help on the Liberty Loan, “a huge expenditure is going on upon pleasure and amusements, eating and drinking, dress, etc., etc. The national bill in this respect could be curtailed by many hundreds of thousands a year, not only without hardship, but .with, I think, positive benefit to the people. It is quite time to take serious stock of the position, and to think of making some sacrifices, and of exercising some selfdenial with a-view to assisting to the utmost of our ability in the winning of the war.”

From time to time visitors to the Wellington wharf have noticed some of the larger ships grotesquely painted in various colours, for the purpose of rendering them invisible at sea, and thereby evading the vigilant hostile submarines, that infest the English Channel and the North Sea. But though there has been much skill spent towards this achievement, men have laboured on the whole with no great result. Endless endeavours have been made and numerous schemes given fair trial by the Admiralty under actual conditions at sea. The results of these trials have been invariably disappqinting and it has been finally established that unless a vessel and her smoke can be made absolutely invisible, no useful purpose is served.