LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 14 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A slight fall of snow, mixed with rain, fell in Taihape this morning.

The coal miners throughout the Dominion held a stop . work meeting this morning at 10 o ’clock, in consequence of the refusal;of the employers to confer with the Coalminer’s Federation.

In the far north-west of West Australia a man requiring surgical treatment was operated upon by ia magistrate with a razor according to instructions wired from Perth. The patient died.

Early Monday morning ia delirious patient in one of the ground wards at the Auckland Public Hospital jumped through a window-pane, and ran into the ground shouting out ‘Murder!’ He was soon caught and it was found that he was not injured in any way after having smashed through the glass.

An electric skate was caught in the Hauraki Gulf by the City Council’s trawler, Cowan, and brought to Auckland on Monday. It was exhibited in the council’s fish-shop window, and attracted considerable attention. The fish weighed 132 lb, and was Ift. long and 3ft. 6in. broad. Mr Cheeseman, curator of the Auckland .Museum states that the electric skate is allied to the stingaree, and is sometimes caleld the electric- ray.

la order to effect a clearance in motor cars, motor cycles and accessories before removing to tie Rink Garage, Mr. V. Nicholls is holding a gieat reduction sale in these lines, particulars of which appear in another column. Many of the lines have been reduced to prices which will not obtain during the war nor for many months after , An advertisement giving full particulars will be found on opr first page.

Discussing shipping prospects at Christchurch on Monday, Mr. W. F. Bennett, manager for the New Zealand Shipping Company, said steamers which were to load at Dominion ports during August. Septemhc|- and Octy ober would lift nearly a million freight carcases of meat, though a portion of the space might be allotted for butter •and cheese. They would, therefore, take away more produce than would be added to the accumulations during that period. Mr. Bennett added that 11 of the frozen-moat stores in the North Island and nine of those in the South Island were practically full.

The price of hair cuts in New York

has been raised from 25 to 50 cents (2s Id).

Tho mail for the United Kingdom which left New Zealand on Juno 15, arrived lat its destination.

The postal authorities notify there is no communication with stations south of Kaikoura and Greymouth owing to a further snowstorms.

Witnesses at the Australian interstate Commission declared that £2,000,000 was annually wasted in the manufacture of shoddy shoes made of adulterated leather.

In Sydney courts last month several merchants were heavily fined for delivering coal, coke, and firewood in sacks without weight labels being attached.

Mr. Daniels, United States Secretary of the Navy says: “Before another summer we shall have enough ships to carry, not a million, but millions, of troops to France, and enough destroyers to see them, there in safety. ”

Dairy farmers are reminded of the sale of Mr. Geo. Drayton’s dairy herd at Rangataua on Thursday, August 15th, at 12.30 p.m. The cows advertised have all been bred in the district and can be thoroughly recommended to local farmers.

“At eighteenpence a pound a sniff of bacon is as good as a sniff of eau de Cologne in these times,” remarked the Chairman of the Levin Dairy Co. at the annual meeting, when he was referring to the importance of pigs as a complement of cows. One shareholder said he had taken at the rate of £5 per head off his cows from his pigs last season.

The following team will represent the Old Girls ’ Hockey Club in the match against the Huia& to-morrow afternoon for the Challenge Cup: — Misses D. Leahy, M. Leahy, E. Donovan, L. Jones, B. Richards, D. Swenson, C McLaughlan, B. Campbell, J. Gordon E. McAuliffe, E. Brookic Emergencies: M. Wapp, D. Boyd and J. McPheo

The Ford motor factory in Canada is now busy turning out a submarine chaser which Henry Ford has designed, and is also engaged in building small tanks, which will carry a driver and a machine gunner, and travel 15 miles per hour. The Americans are also reported to be building “supertanks” of a much bigger and heavier pattern than any refused, and better able to withstand artillery attack.

Instead of searching . parcels for prohibited Protestant books, why don’t the authorities spend the valuable time up amongst the foothills of Mount Egmont searching out the 140 shirkers said to be hiding there from military service? I hear all about those men. It is strange the Defence Department does not hear it. These men are armed and it is even said who arc feeding them. It is said the police know these shirkers and let them 'go by.—Rev. Howard Elliott, _ at Eoilding.

Some idea of the treatment that American soldiers -are receiving in German prison camps may be gathered from a letter ;roeeiv-ed by a boy’s parents at Minneapolis: “We are having the very best treatment,’’ he says. “The Gormans provide us with the best of everything.- There is only one thing wo could wish for, and that is to bo at Lakewood Park.’’ |Lake--wood evidently impressed the German censor as a pleasure resort. It is a cemetery.

The third ballot of Class C Second Division commenced yesterday morning in Wellington. Five thousand names arc to be drawn, which will leave a balance of 3864 to bo called up by Gazette in September. The Gazette containing the names of the men balloted this month will bo issued next weeks. Lists of accretions to the First Division and Classes A and B, Second Division, will be published at the same time.

It is scandalous, to put it mildly, that while fish is unprocurable in Taihapc no less than SOO cases of fish were sent away from. Auckland this week by th e R.M.S. Niagara. This commodity has for some considerable time past been remarkable for its absence i n the town, and when it was obtained it was only by paying 9d. per lb. for it. At the present moment we have a Board of Trade whoso duty it is to have a knowledge of the food requirements of the Dominion, but they seem to be too much taken up with other matters tobe able to devote any attention to the food necessities of the country. Some time ago the Taihapc Borough Council discussed the question of the price of fish and after somewhat nebulous discussion resolved that when the price of fish exceeded a certain price ‘'something would bo done,” The people of Taihape are awaiting with interest for that “something” to materialise.