LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 28 August 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

St. Margaret’s Parish. School breaks up for the Spring holidays on Fridaynext, re-assembling on Monday, September 3rd. * The Methodist Church of New Zealand raised £17,238 last year for Home and Foreign Missions. This year £25,000 is aimed at. The Public Service Commissioner is advertising for a man having a good knowledge of accounts and a practical knowledge of the timber Industry, for the position of Clerk-in-Chargc in the Timber Branch of the Board of Trade.

In our report on the junior football

batch it was stated Leahy scored for Taihape, which w r as incorrect; Kilkolly scored, Leahy converted.

Nominations for two retiring directors of Taihape Motors Ltd., will be received by the secretary, Mr. R. Currie, up till Saturday, September 7th, at the registered office of the company.

An interesting quarter page display advertisement dealing with the question of National Efficiency will bo found on page 2 of this issue, and should be carefully considered by every reader.

It is generally understood that the present owners of Ibex and Turangapito intend to make an effort to have the five years’ disqualification of the horses removed, and so far as Turangapito is concerned matters are said to be well advanced'.

The Taihape Red Cross Shop next Saturay is to be tenanted by children attending St. Margaret’s School, the Convent School, and the District High School. They are bent upon raising a big sum towards the Copper Trail, and they make a special appeal for liberal support from their elders.

Wellington area in the Copper Trail contest added 19 miles last week, taking the trail end to Greatford, a distance of 113 miles. But Auckland has not yet wearied in generous support of this great cause for last week it added another 21 miles, taking its trail to Taihape, the total distance from home being 266 miles.

Mr. Gordon Gilmour, whose Australian Press Association cable messages from France are read with much in-

terest, Avas some six years ago a member of the reporting staff of the Dominion. He left Wellington for Sydney, joined the staff of the “Sun,” and later worked, for the “Daily Telegraph,’ ’which paper sent him to London.

There is every prospect of a really good time at the Old Identities’ Ball, this evening. Young people are to be there in force is evident by their IlPeral, purchase of tickets, and if the weather is fine there will be a good attendance of old identities from country districts. With good music, good floor, and ample refreshments a most enjoyable evening is sure to eventuate.

It is with regret we have to chronicle the sudden death of Mr. Alexander Young, of Waipapa. He had been 'ailing for some years, but was able to follow his ordinary pursuits till last Monday when he was taken suddenly il. Dr. Boyd was telephoned for but Mr Young had expired before the doctor’s arrival. It is understood that the funeral will take place at Wanganui. It will be of interest to all school committees to learn that the Education Department is prepared to grant a subsidy towards the cost of erecting honours boards at schools. Many schools are doubtless contemplating the erection of honours boards to contain the names of the large numbers of ex-pupils .who have gone to the front, and, providing the committee raise half the cost, the Department is prepared to pay the other half, within reasonable limits.

Of late shooting at the Soldiers’ Settlement, Benmore, has become a very tame amusement (says the North Otago Times, Oamaru), owing to the snow forcing rabbits and hares into the open field. The latest yarn is that one settler, sitting at a dining room window, bagged 13 hares. It is stated that the lieavy snowstorms and severe frosts have caused the rabbits and hares to become very venturesome. Gardens and fields of mangolds and turnips have suffered in consequence—but at a price to the unwelcome visitor.

A slip, of considerable magnitude is aagin down on tho Kawatau Road in the big cutting near Mangiawcka. The road has boon blocked for two or three days and it will bo some time before traffic will get through. This piece of road is always troublesome, and is also a menace to the safety of the public. Two persons have 'already been caught in slips and seriously injured. Why the road was ever taken through this place is a mystery, as a road is in existence on the other side, and the bridge could have been put across above the cutting and x saved all this trouble. Euahinc could have been reached from Turnbull’s road.