LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 4 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

"Practically fully subscribed" is the latest bulletin about the loan of £9,500,000. Iliesco, formerly generalissimo of the Eumanian army, has resigned and offered his services to France. The Minister of Defence has received advice that the thirty-seventh reinforcements have reached a port of call all well. Al? arraagsmteafts have now bee>i completed for the Eeturned Soldiers Social and Dance at the Town Hall to-morrow night. No efforts has been spared to make the social «ven more succsessful than the previous one. Appeals lodged by the Wellington Education Board were adjourned indefinitely. -We exempt all teachers," said the Chairman of the Wellington Military Service Board, "because wo think the school staffs have been sufficiently depleted "

Another draft of returned men is expected in New Zealand at an early date. The draft comprises 390 of all ranks.

Owing to illness the Ada Reeve Company will not appear at the King's Theatre on Thursday night. We understand her visit is only postponed, not abandoned**

The proceeds of Hie hockey and football matches yesterday were TiTaicrof the funds of the Taihape Returned Soldiers' Association. The amount taken at the gates totalled £9 lis 3d.

A very pleasant social evening was spent last night when a number of friends foregathered to farewell Mr. V. Nicholls, who is leaving for camp this week. Songs, dances, and games contributed to the evening's enjoyment.

After the hockey match on Saturday afternoon a lady lost a gold locket and chain between the ground and Mataroa Road. As the locket is a keepsake and contains the photographs" of hoped the fined will return it to this brothers now fighting in France, it is hoped the finder return it to this office without delay.

The correspondent of the "New York Times" with the American army in France says that a captured German told American officers that the German army had been reduced to three meatless days a week. By permission of the unit commanders the soldiers were making the reduced ration last the whole week. The reduction had caused much dissatisfaction.

About one half of the thirty-eighth reinforcements were absent without leave from Trentham Camp on Saturday. This draft went into camp shortly before Easter, and the men considered that they should now have final leave to go to their homes. The whole reinforcement made a demonstration a few evenings ago, and approached the commandant. No one was punished but the men refused the extra leave which they demanded. It is expected that those who have absented themselves will return to camp in a day or two

Mr. V. Nicholls, who is leaving TSlhape for camp on Friday next, is very anxious to get as mTrch of his business settled as possible, and in an advertisement in to-days' issue asks those who are indebted to, him to pay their accounts before his departure. The Garage will still be carried on by him, and Mr. Murgatroyd, a first-class motor mechanic, has been engaged to look after his business during his absence on active service. Mr. Murgatroyd has exceptional technical and mechanical abilities, and clients can have every confidence in his ability to turn out first-class work. • •-. •:■ r ; .