LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Twenty-four members of the Dannevirke Fire Brigade have enlisted since the outbreak of the war.

No less a sum than £814,000 has been raised in the Auckland Provincial district since the outbreak of the war in voluntary contributions to war causes.

Dalgety and Co., report having had a small entry at this Mangaweka Sale on Thursday last. Medium lambs brought 15/, mixed aged ewes, in lamb 25/9, mixed weaners £3 8s Gd, dairy heifers £ll, dairy cows £l2 10s.

The cake, competition held in connection with the Women's Working Club Shop on Saturday last resulted as follows:—Sponge cake, Mrs. Gardiner Ist, Mrs. Miller 2nd; fruit cake, Mrs. Phillips; eggless cake, Mrs. Boyd; shortbread, Miss Hall; sausage rolls, Miss Hall.

A statement that there is a shortage of 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 bushels of wheat this year was made" by-Mr. John Talbot, at a meeting of the Farmers' Union at Timaru. He said he understood that the Government had bought 1,000,000 bushels in Australia, but it would be difficult to get it over to New Zealand. The posttion would probably be worse next 3'ear, as the area sown and to be sown was from 30 to 40 per cent less than formerly.

The cool audacity of the" Hun! Looking for work in England when the war is over is the peculiar situation of the "German National League of Clerks." Through their journal they disewss the problem, and declare that when the war is over they won't work for the same salary they used to get before , r the war. They worked for low wages before the war—because they were spies.

Rev. Father Guinane, late chaplain at Fcathcrston Camp, is now pricst-in-eharge of Eaetihi district. On Sunday last Father Guinane held his first service in Eaetihi in Mr John Punch's Theatre Royal, and the congregation were much impressed with his sermon.

Many of the younger people will be pleased to leam that there is very little chance of Charlie Chaplin being shot by the Germans. Charlie has been examined by the doctors in America and registered in Class 5. His chest measurement is only 26 inches, and it wouid take too much baby food to make him fit to carry a swag.

They draw the colour line in Feilding. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, after having arranged for accommodation at a certain house, were rejected when they presented themselves, the landlady telling them, "You had better try to find accommodation elsewhere I do not accommodate coloured people."

A wedding took place on Monday afternoon at 2.30, the "Contracting parties being Mr. Robert Gibson and Miss Ethel Williams, both popular members of the staff of Em's Hotel. A social was tendered the happy couple in "Canary Cottage" in the evening, when toasts were drunk to their health, and good wishes expressed for their future prosperity and happiness.

A story is told of <a German housewife who went to her butcher in Berlin for a pound of sausages, and was told that if she could provide the paper to wrap it in she would be allowed to purchase one sausage. She held out an old tram ticket, as the only paper available, and in this the sausage was concealed. When she got home the sausage was missing, for it had slipped out through the hole punched by the conductor!

In reply to representatives that Ohingaiti be reconstituted an officered station, the Minister of Railways has replied that owing to the release of a large number of railway men for miliary service the Depaetment had decided to withdaw the stationmasters from a number of stations, Ohingaiti among the number. Further the volume of business transacted does not warrant' the retention of Ohingaiti as an officered station, and it had. been decided to place a tablet porter in charge.

j The Taihape Women's Working I Club have arranged to hold a social | and dance in the Town Hall on July | 24th. The object is to raise funds to enable the Club to send "Christmas Parcels'' to our boys on 'active service. The admission charge has been fixed at getnlemen 2/6, ladies 1/ and a basket, We shall have more to say upon this subject in a future issue, and in the meantime would recommend those avlio have our soldiers welfare at heart to keep the date of ! the social well in mind, as well as the object for which it is being held.

Eeturning from a trip to Japan, Mr John Myers, of Wellington, made a call at Thursday Island. There he met a returned Australian soldier,: who, learning that he was a New Zealander, asked to be allowed to shake hands with him. The soldier said he had the greatest respect for New"" Zcalanders. He had fought alongside our soldiers, "and," said Mr Myers to a- "Post" reporter, "what pleased me most was to hear him say that the New Zcalanders have the pluck of the Australian soldiers and the discipline of the British Army," In Sydney Mr Myers saw the send-off of Captain Oarmichael's "thousand." "I don't think," said MiMyers, "that we are quite fair in condemning the Australians for not passing the the Conscription Bill. There are nearly as many in favour of the proposal as there are against it."

The social and dance to be held by the Old Girls' Hockey Club to-morrow night at the Three Stars promises to bo a great success, and arrangements to that end are almost completed. The members of the Club are doing thenutmost to make the function as varied as posible, and to provide for diverse tastes; in addition to the usual programme of dances, songs will bo contributed by Miss Johnson, of Mangaweka, Miss L. Wrightson, and Mr. T. Smith. Card tables will be provided for those who prefer to take their pleasures quietly. With a good floor, first-class music, an excellent supper, and an evident desire to please on the part of the organisers, nothing is lacking to make the social >and dance an extremely pleasurable one. The prices admission are, gentlemen 2/6 ladies Is- and a basket. Dancing will commence at 8 o'clock.