LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 27 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The price of oatmeal lias advanced in, Dunedin £2 per, |on. and is now quoted .at £27 pep ton.,• ~,r : '

1 American doctors ate doing more tlian a “bit.’ v: There are more than ‘23,000 of them In the United States service, and 3180 in the Medical Corps of the Allies. “It is remarkable how healthy we' keep while they are gone,” says the St. Louis Star.

“Policemen have to face greater danger than soldiers on the battle field,” said Judge Rentoul at the Old Bailey Court, London. “It would be foolish to hold them up as angels, because I have known some to commit forgery, hut, taken all round, they are an extremely high-class body of men."

Melancholy mterest ataches to the picture “Maciste,” to be shown at the King’s to-night. Maciste, the gigantic actor is familiar to most picture-lov-ers who have seen “Cabiria,” and it will be with regret they will learn thar he has been killed fighting in the Italian’ army.

The domestic cat is condemned vigorously by officials in Wellington as a source of danger during epidemics of certain diseases, of which diphtheria is one. In at least one case in Wellington a small boy is believed to have caught diphtheria from a favourite cat, which, though perfectly healthy appearance, was betrayed as a “carrier” as soon as the health officers obtained swabs from its moutth and throat. Cats can take diphtheria themselves, and so infect humans, or may carry it to a dangerous extent without showing symptoms.

Women as Justices, women as Magistrates, women as police, women as jurors—these are questions that await the Minister of Justice (the Hon. T. M. Wilford) at Dunedin. Deputations of women are preparing for interviews with Mr. Wilford on those subjects. The Minister—according to recent conversational remarks —seems inclined to admit that women may be employed advantageously on “certain kinds of police duty. He has looked thoroughly into the evidence of America’s experiments, and his opinion is that women police, within a certain range, have proved themselves a benefit to the community.

The poundkeeper notifies that If a black and white, .two to three yea? steer, impounded from the Main South Road, is not claimed and 'expenses paid it will be sold on 11th July, at noon.

The committee of the Hamilton Soldiers’- Club recently launched a campaign to raise £SOOO in the town for the installation of an up-to-date club in Hamilton for soldiers and civilians. So far the sum of £lßll has oselS given or promised.

Tenders are invited by Mr. A. H. Kitto, architect, Raetihi, for the erection of a bungalow and stables for Mr. W. E. Waldegrave, at Raetihi. Tenders are to be for labour only; the plans and specifications may be seen at the office of this paper.

Tenders are invited by the Taihapo Borough Council for the removal of nightsoil and refuse within the Borough, for the year commencing from the Ist August next. Tenders close on 11th July, at 4 p.m., and must be addressed to the Town Clerk.

’A very important suggestion is made to Second Division men in this issue, by Mr. G. N. lLaw, representative of the A.M.P. Society. He tells them that they should apply now—not wait—for the £3OO policy granted by the Financial Assistance Board whilst on active service. Mr. Law is staying at Wakeman’s Hotel, and he asks all interested in insurance to call on him, or to ring him up.

The reservist, Gilbert Walker, who some time ago was arrested in the bush for evasion of service | under somewhat exciting circumstances, and was subsequently granted an extension of time on the appeal of his mother, should have paraded for camp ar Hamilton on Thursday'*last, but failed to do so. The Defence authorities and the police are now endeavouring to locate him, but so far have been un. successful.

There is a sharp rise in Canterburygrown onions; and' they are quoted at £lO a tonv But though buyers are keen, they find it necessary to be cantions, for several consignments to Dunedin have had to be rejected owing to the onions being in a soft and sprouting condition. Victorian onios are now worth £ls f.0.b., and for forward delivery the Victorian farmers are asking £2O. Business'is entirely in their hands, for the wholesale buyers will not operate at that figure.