LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 22 April 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mrs. A. Williams, of Taihape, received word last week that her son, P. Williams, had been wounded in France, y The Secretary of the Taihape Tradesmen’s Association notifies that shops will be closed all day on Thursday next, Anzac Day, The first shoot for the McLennan Cup by members of the Awarua Gun Club will be held on the Club" griffi " on Thursday, 25th inst., starting at 1 p.m. The Rev. W. H. Hocking, the newly appointed minister to the Methodist circuit in Taihape, preached his initial sermons at the local church yesterday morning and evening. Private P. C. Webb, according to the Legislature Act, is ineligible as a candidate for the Grey seat, and arrangements are being made by hzs party'lfor another 1 -Labour candidate.

; 'The -annual .nibeting of ihcuseholders for > the • purpose• of o electing ’a : rsehool committee ■for.- the Taihape- D.-ri: H. School will - be--held-in- the schoolroom at 8 o’clock This-'everting.-■- 1 : ; l .

You will bo able to have any garment cut out by an export during Home Sewing Week at Collinson and Cunninghame’s; see page 6 for de-. tails and dates. This is one of C. and C’s most popular events original with them. It will give your “Two garments for the price of one.”

In Mr. H. D,, Bond’s, window is to be seen a beautiful silver cup, one of the trophies donated, to the , recent Fire Brigade’s _ demonstration in Taihape: The. cup stands TO inches high, and is a beautiful specimen of the silver, smith’s art. The cup was presentee by Messrs McLaughlan Bros., of Taihape.

The Sydney “Sun” states that it was unanimously decided at a recent conference of the United Commercial Travellers’ Association of Australasia that no bachelor eligible for military service be admitted as a member of the association or club connected with the organisation throughout Australasia.

"The Prime Minister and others may be lauded throughout the country; the Governor-General may be considered to be an important person; but not but not one of them is as important as the school-teacher. When we realise this, the teacher will be put into his proper position.” Mr. G. London at last meeting of the Wellington Education Board. The Wanganui Chronicle reports that two young men were charged at the Magistrate’s Court with a breach of the Post and Telegraph Act by sending fictitious messages on the telephone, It appears that the accused at midI night rang up a clergyman, a nurse, j. and a private hotel with bogus mesI sages and wore caught in the act by j the police. The Magistrate described | the offence as a silly trick, and imposj ed a fine of £7 10s on each. | An Englishman from Russia has givj on a strange picture of Germans pay- ; ing their way in Russia with Russian • paper money made in Germany. Germany’s war finance is always curious and, in some respects, incomprehen- , siblc to outsiders. When the siege of I Paris was at its height, with thousands of shells falling daily on the city German financiers were quietly speculating in the French War Loan in Berlin. Three bankers were tried and convicted, and sentenced to gaol, the chief malefactor to a terra of two I years. When your child canot sleep because of cold in the head, use NAZOL. Sprinkle some drops on nightgown or pillow. Quick relief will follow. 60 doses 1/6.