LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

'Advice has been received that the 34th Reinforcements have arrived safely at their destination.

The Mayor of Auckland stated on Tuesday, that the Auckland lists of the Fire Relief Fund arc now closed. The total amount subscribed there was £2515 16s lid. Of this amount £1450 had- already been remitted, leaving £1055 16s lid still to be forwarded.

Private Alfred W. Hclem, of the N.Z. Eiflc Brigade, who in August of last year was reported wounded and missing, has now been returned as killed in action. The deceased soldier was a son of Mr P. D. Helem, of Ohutu.

When at the Old Bailey, London, James Edward McGilligan, a New Zea'and soldier, was sentenced to six months in the second division, for marrying Florence Amada Cursley the woman, who was, in tears, said that no man could possibly have been kinder to her. "God be with you, mate," was her parting cry.

For Influenza, take Wood's Great Per; perniin; Hure. Never fails. 1/6, 2/6

A meeting of returned soldiers is to be held in the Town Hall supper-room to-morrow, (Friday) evening at eight o'clock, at which all returned soldiers are earnestly requested to be present.

The Three Stars Picture Theatre will re-open on Saturday next, when a fine programme of pictures will be shown, the star attraction being one of the Ward's masterpieces entitled "The Stolen Paradise."

The war profits of New Zealand exporters and other, according to the Year Book information, was up tjo December, 1917, about £50,000,000; that is the excess of selling prices above those of pre-war days.

On Saturday next the Taihape Eed Cross Shop will be in charge of the ladies of Terrace and Winiata, when there will be a splendid collection of produce, sweets, cakes, fruits, and miscellaneous articles.

The Taihape Women's Working Club's Shop will be open on Saturday when a splendid collection of homemade cakes, bread, pickles, jams, 9a,uc»s, Bermsl'ine lo.a v es. fruit and other dainties will be submitted for sale. Mesdames Gardner and Fookes will be in charge.

• The suspension of deferred and Expeditionary Force cable messages to the United Kingdom via the Eastern Extension Cable Company is announced by the Post and Telegraph "Department # This means that deferred traffic is suspended by both routes, and that Expeditionary Force messages can'be accepted via the Pacific cable only.

Reuter's correspondent at Amsterdam states that the high hopes of the Central Powers regarding food supplies from the Ukraine are apparently doomed to disappointment. The Berlin paper, "Germania," says that the agriculturists in the Ukraine are faced with ruin. Complete anarchy prevails in the villages. All corn stocks are hidden, so that the large towns in the Ukraine are threatened with a scarcity. The "Germania" .'hopes that the situation will improve when the Hun troops penetrate East Ukraiiila.

A police posse recently journeyed to the head of Lake Wakatipu to make enquiries into the matter of the shirking First Division reservists who were said to be skulking in the hinterland of Lake Wakatipu (says the Wakatipu Mail). "Sorties" were made into certain quarters but the police did not succeed in running their quarry to earth. "We understand," adds the Mail "that there are sufficient grounds for the assumption that a party of men liable for military service are attempting to evade the law by taking cover in the bush which abounds from the head of the Lake coastwards. Such country provides admirable hiding for rank cowards of the kind, and its extent and density practically defy their detection.

The great rush of boys and girls to clerical work was referred to by the Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister for Education, in a speech at Ashburton, last week. The Minister said that if the drift continued to the same extent as now obtained, it would mean that the country was proceeding headlong in the direction of doing what an educationalist has declared was "inverting the social pyramid and trying to balance it at its apex/' Any man who was given to serious thought and had foresight, must recognise that if the country's trained industrial workers did not increase in town and country; if work on the farm, in trades and industrial occupation* did not materially increase j if land settlement and primary industries did not greatly expand and productions substantially inqreasey thel outlook would not be bright for the many young people taking up clerical and unskilled occupations.