LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 19 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At notice of importance in connection with the horse Franzie appears in another colmuns. f‘ The total amounts subscribed to the War Loan in the Auckland district will scarcely be £BOO,OOO though in the same district, on the occasion of the last loan, there was over two millions lent. . . From the latest returns it appears there is a very heavy glut in the fruit market in New Zealand. No less than 250,000 cases of apples being in cool storage. Nevertheless it 7 is impossible to buy decent dessert apples in Taihape under Gd a pound. There is something wrong with system of distribution evidently.

A .London paper recorus man at Carmarthen was fined £SO for buying 1021 b. of meat in ten days. In evidence defendant stated that the meat was for a St. Bernard dog, which had a weak heart and required careful feeding. At Lockhamstead a man was fined £lO and £2O costs for feeding fowls with seed wheat. The Defence Department will, within the next few days, appeal for volunteers from Classes C hnd D of the Second Division reserve, in accordance with the announcement made by Sir James Allen in the House at the beginning of the week. The authorities want volunteers who can enter camp between May 21 and 25, as the balloting of 10,000 men in the B Class will cause such a rush of work for the medical boards that volunteers unprepared to mobilise before May 25 will not have much chance of later attention till the ballotted men have been dealt with.

A farmer informed a Napier Telegraph reporter that he had never known such a disastrous season as regarded lambs. A peculiarity noticeable among the stricken animals was their greediness for water, and this despite the fact that there was abundance of moisture in the pasture Healthy and fat lambs suddenly became dizzy and fell, never to rise again, hundreds going down in this manner. An investigation of the intestinal organs in many’ instances had disclosed a watery fluid in the colour of ink. but the animal otherwise appeared to be in excellent condition. The farmer was of opinion that the continual wet weather was the main cause of the trouble as pasture, though iii abundance was more detrimental than otherwise, and many'young sheep, a very valuable commodity at present, had been lost.

Rev. Hocking commences his min's- j try in Taihape on Sunday, preaching | in Taihape morning and evening. Special music by the choir. Large congregation expected.

Indignation was expressed by Mr. Joblin, at the last , meeting of the Wanganui Hospital Board, in connection with an account for taking members of the Board by motor to attend ,a meeting at Taihape. “£l6 for a joy ride,” he said, “They could have gone by train, and it would have been much cheaper,’’ None of the otjier members of the Board appeared disposed to discuss the item, which was duly passed for payment.