LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 July 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Mails for the United Kingdom which left New Zealand on May 19 have arrived at their destination safe-

The payments made by th® Imperial Supplies Purchase Department on behalf of the British Government now amount to £69,120,582.

The amount collected Tn Auckland to date for the Red Jersey Fund has reached the £IO,OOO mark. There were one £IOOO and ten £SOO subscribers.

A largely-attended meeting of dairymen at Palmerston North on Wednesday considered the dried milk question, and decided to take steps to amalgamate the dairy companies in the Manawatu district for the manufacture of milk products on a co-opera, tive basis.

At the Patea County Council on Monday, it was decided that the Patea County Council call upon the Government to intern all enemy aliens and to cancel naturalisation papers of all males of enemy parentage Born in-an enemy country. Several members spoke on the question, and the motion was carried unanimously.

Douglas Fairbanks is known to be the best, medium for the removal of wrinkles the country has ever known, which means that ho is a tonic for

young and old alike. His latest artcraft production 11 Down to Earth,” showing at- the Town Hall to-morrow (Saturday), is fifty reels of joy boiled down into six.

Mr. John Mackay, who died at Invercargili on Tuesday, had reached his one hundredth year. He was born on the 18th April, 1819, in Fifeshiro, and served his apprenticeship as engineer, mostly in flaxmllling machinery. He erected machinery for a clothing factory when 94 years of age, and put up a binder twine plant at Winton.

Satisfaction with the terms under which the Imperial Government is purchasing the Dominion’s wool clip was expressed by the Wanganui Agricultural Association on Wednesday. Tne opinion was expressed that even if growers were allowed to ship their own wool after the war, the high freights and the scarcity of ships would nullify all the advantage ofthe high prices expected.

(In connection with conscientious objectors, the Labour Conference, whicn concluded at Wellington on Wednesday, decided that a deputation wait on the Minister of Defence to protest against the general treatment of conscientious objectors. The conference also decided to emphatically protest against the extension of the life of Parliament, and demand an immediate general election.

The Women’s Christian Temper, ance Union, at a meeting on Wednesday, passed resolutions: “That the Government be urged to provide compulsory continuation classes in daylight hours for children between the ages of 14 to IS not attending secondary schools.” “Tha* the Government he urged to immediate steps for the improvement of staffing, buildings, and playgrounds of all primary schools.”

Details of the native troops serving with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force were given by Sir James Allen, at Dargavillc on Wednesday ngiht. He stated that since the first draft of Maoris left the Dominion in February, 1915, a total of 27 additional drafts had gone to the front, the total number of Maoris who had left the Domin. 'on on service to date being 2134. Other native soldiers in the New Zealand Forces included 148 Niue Islanders and 308 Rarotongans. About 25 Gilbert Islanders were now on their way to New Zealand to undergo training for active service, and a platoon of half-caste Fijians would arrive in New Zealand shortly for the same purpose. In addition there were at present In camp 134 Maoris and 90 Rarotongans. He considered this was a splendid record of loyalty on the part of the Maoris and other native ra'dSST