LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 10 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A further fall of snow lias occurred inland behind Timaru. At Fairlie 4 inches fell and at Tasman Valley 12 inches. Snow fell in Timaru.

The despatch of parcels for prisoners of war in Turkey has been resumed Advice to this effect has been received by the New Zealand postal authorities.

Mails will close at Taihape on Monday, the 12th inst., at 5 p.m. for: Fiji, Honolulu, Japan, Fanning Island, Canada, U.S.A., Central America, Europe, United Kingdom.

It is generally known, apparently, that under the Municipal Corporations Amendment Act, as it stands at present, it is necessary to reappoint a deputy-mayor on every occasion when the mayor is absent, and it is neeessaij for the former to act. The mayor's resumption of duty automatically terminates the appointment!

.Members of the Dunedin Stock Exchange cabled Mr Lloyd George: “The most distant Stock of the Empire heartily applauds your steadfast determination to hold fast. ;

The larges? artesian basin in the world is in Australia. It extends for 376.000 square miles in Queensland, 99.000 in South Australia, 83,000 in New South Wales, and 20,000 in the Northern Territory.

The Berlin Socialist journal Vorwarts states that the London memorandum drawn up by the Biitish, French and American Labour delegations was deliberately prevented by the German Government from reaching the working men of the Central Powers

There is a family of four brothers in Wellington. A few years ago they were noted footballers —among the biggest forwards in the land. Before the military medical boards three have been classed as unfit for service and the other is to go into the Ct Camp.

It appears that H.M.S, Vindictive not only successfully raided Zccbruggo but she actually got away with a bit of that rathoie. A large piece of Zeebrugge Mole, which fell ou the Vindictive during the famous raid, is among the naval relies now at the Imperial War Museum in London.

Mr. A. Buchanan told a meeting of dairymen in Palmerston yesterday that not only was sugar of milk being manufactured at Edcndale (Otago), but a factory for this purpose at a cost of £25,000, was to be erected at Featherston. In Northern Wairoa casein was being manufactured from, buttermilk.

’lt should be realised that although the National Efficiency Board’s proposal calls for the abolition of the Liquor Traffic —the proposal will provide for the exemption of alcohol for medicinal purposes. Liquor will still be available where necessary in cases o£ .illness. Other important exemptions aire those of wine for sacranieiital purposes and alcohol for scientific and industrial use.

Last night at a meeting .of the committee, recently formed in connection with the Methodist Church, for Church debt extinction purposes, it was resolved to hold a Rose and Sweet Pea Show in the Taihape Town Hall on December 4th and tsh A schedule of classified classes will be available in a few days and growers and intending exhibitors may obtain same on application to the secretary, P.O. Box 71, Taihape. Included in the Show will, also be a home industries and arts and industries section.

Discharged soldiers are finding difficlulty in procuring employment inAuckland and the question of providing occupation for them; is assuming proportions which are considered to carry the problem to a scale beyond the scope of the local Employment Committee. The Mayor of Auckland ;stated, yesterday that while the committee had done' and was doing all That was possible, it 'was a question iwhether the matter should not be : placed on a wider basis, and a special repatriation committee appointed, representing both citizens and returned soldiers.

It will be 7S years on Sunday, the 11th August since the British flag was hoisted at Akaroa Bay by Captain Stanley, E.N., and British authority exorcised for the first time in the South Island by the holding of a Court The French frigate L ’Aube arrived there two days later, and the vessel Comte de Paris, with fifty-seven immigrants three days after that, in order to establish a French colony there. Many of the descendants of these early French settlers have found their way north, and. inheriting from their forebears colonising instincts, are proving themselves to he amongst' the most successful of our back-blocks pioneers.