LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 25 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A housemaid is advetised rdr‘ J T)y Taihape Public Hospital, wages 25s p£r week, Messrs 'A. W. Gardner and Co. have a new advertisement in this issue relative to their great winter sale now on. 1 j The cash system inaugurated by Messrs McLaughlan Bros, has proved an unqualified success and of undoubted benefit to those who wish to save money. A fresh announcement thereanent will be found in another column. Writing from the trenches on April 17, an officer, who lias since been severely wounded, says: “Of all the camps I have struck, I quite agree with othes of us that good old Trentham is best one of the lot. You have only to get round a bit to realise that.” The returns in connection with the “copper trail” competition between Wellington and Auckland in aid of the Red Cross Funds show that up till Saturday night Wellington had reached Paremata, 1G miles from Wellington, an advance of five miles, during the week. The Auckland trail on Saturday had reached Opaheke, just outside Drury, 21 miles from Auckland, an advance of 10 miles during the week. , Auckland is now leading by five miles in the campaign.

A rather prolonged earthquake was experienced in Taihape this morning at 5.30 o’clock. The shock was not violent, assuming a slow rocking motion.

The Hon. W. D. S. MacDonald, Minister of Agriculture, will attend the Taihape Winter Show on Thursday, and in all probability he will have a few words to say germane to the exhibition.

Mrs. Arthur Litchfield, of Raukura, passed away this (Tuesday) afternoon, the result of a sudden seizure—probably in connection with the heart. The deceased lady was well-known In Blenheim, Palmerston North and Wanganui districts. She was~ only 62 years of age, and had suffered from severe heart trouble.

Owing to the supper room of the Town Hall being engaged to-morrow night, the meeting of ladies in connection with providing supper for the Returned Soldiers’ Ball, will he held in the Fir© Brigade Hall to-mbr-row night. The ladies will kindly note the change and make it known among their friends, so as to have a good muster of ladies at the meeting.

“It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good,” says the ancient proverb. The Great war has had the effect of creating no fewer that 14 freezing works in New Zealand, besides practically doubling the storage capacity throughout the Dominion. The freezing storage erected since August, 1914 is sufficient for 1,147,000 carcases, and .New Zealand’s total capacity is for 2,291,500 tons. This is a wonderful development, when it is realised that the first freezing works were erected at Burnside (Dunedin) in 1881.

For the forty-fourth draft, mobilising in the middle of July, 530 reservists are under orders. It is desired, if possible, to bring the draft up to a strength of 1200, and districts have been instructed to obtain volunteers, including any men from Classes B and C who will be prepared to enter camp in four weeks’ time. The tenth Cl draft, mobilising on July 4, is of a strength of 563. Other numbers summoned to enter the Cl camp are as follows: —For August 1, 340; August 29, 323; September 26, 100.

The following appeal for subscriptions to the eighth war loan appeared in several German newspapers. As a specimen of unconscious humour the reference to Belgium would take some beating: “How can one German still hesitate to subscribe for the eighth war- loan?- . Oh, ye faint-hearted, go and ask the Belgians, the Serbians, the Russians, the Italians what it means to have the enemy in the country. Do you not realise that it is your support of the loan only that can keep the horrors of an enemy occupation from Germany’s soil?

A meeting was recently held in the Presbyterian Hall, when a branch of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union was formed. Mrs. McDonald presided, and Miss Powell, Dominion Organiser, gave an interesting address on the aims and objects of the Union. The following officers were elected: —President, Mrs F. McDonald; vice-presidents, Mesdames Gordon Senior and Shute; secretary, Mrs, Haydon; treasurer, Mrs. E. Bennett; agent “White Ribbon Paper,” Mrs. Trotter; organist, Mrs. B'eaton; evangelistic superintendent, Mrs Mawson. A committee was set up to arrange for temperance work amongst the young people and a public meeting is to be held shortly to all interesfe'd will be welcome. Apologies were received from Mesdames Gordon Sen., and Hayden. The Union decided to meet every second Tuesday.