LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 5 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Military Service B'oiard arc to review all sine die cases in' January. The Wairarapa Patriotic Association has been instrumental. 1n... raising ■about £2QO,OQO f(?r patriotic purposes The American people' are ’ sending gifts to the New Zealanders; one school in New York having recently sent 500 pairs of socks to the Second Canterbury Battalion. A farewell social and dance is to be tendered to Messrs Maher, Murphy and Doreen at the Mataroa Hall on Friday evening, previous to these three soldiers leaving for service with the forces.

The Passmore Challenge Shield, presented by Mr.' J. L. Passmore, of Dunedin, to the best drilled and smartest turned out secondary school cadet contingent in the Dominion, has been awarded to Christ’s College Cadets for training during the past year.

The number of marriages between New Zealand soldiers and British women appears to be increasing. A high military authority stated In Wellington recently that the English wives of about 1000 soldiers were recently awaiting transport to this country.

At the Wanganui Police Court on Tuesday, Hardy O’Leary wais fined £SO for doing an act which would prevent the continuance of the service of his nephew, Timothy 0 ILcary, in the Expeditionary Force, and also with retaining in his service and employing a deserter of the Expeditionary Force.

The Government is to-day the greatest employer of labour in the United States, not considering railroad enjployees. In normal times approximately 400,000 civilians are employed, ■.and in the last year, the number has increased to 600,000. ' In comparison one steel corporation .employs 300,000 men and one railroad 250,000.

Referring to the fact that Germany under the peace treaty has assured to herself the possession of the telegraph lines, wireless installations, and cable system on the Roumanian coast, the Eeichspost says that these measures are connected with a plan for a big German intelligence service after the war, particularly in the wireless domain.

Thre good broody hens arc advertised for; a good price offered.

Mr. Phillips, of the Taihape dining rooms, wants to purchase waste newspapers, and clean mixed fat in any quantity.

Owing to the decrease of business caused by the war, the Tramway Hotel and the B'allarat Hotel, in Coromandel applied for and were granted permission to close up the premises.

Mr. A. E. Savage, pianoforte tuner, notifies that He will be in Taihape on or about September 10th. Orders for him may be left at Swedlund’s music warehouse, near Town Hall.

A cribbage match has been arranged for Monday night between teams representing the Fire Brigade and the Town. Play starts at eight o'clock and town players are requested to be on the mark sharp to time.

General Pershing, the U.S.A. Commader in Chief, recently made an appeal for 500 Y.M.C.A. workers to be sent to the front from America. They must be above the conscription age and under 50,

At the Taihape Magistrate’s Court this morning W. Heron was fined £25 for selling milk, which on "’analysis, proved to contain 19 per cent of addefl water. He was given two months in which to pay the fine.

The Mayor of Christchurch hopes some day to have a fragment of the West Coast forests thrown over his front gate every evening. Speaking at the Chamber of Commerce dinner last week, he said that with the water power and such areas of timber available, the Coast news-print paper manufacture should be a success right from the start.

'A. War Regulation has been gazetted making provision for the closing hotels in ports of arrival on the days when drafts of men return from the front. The regulation goes a little further than this, for it empowers the authorities to close the hotels when there comes into port any ship carrying troop*. ■ r •

A watch, unless it is a reliable timekeeper, is worse than useless. Nowadays reliable timepieces are produced at a comparatively low cost and there is no reason why anyone should be without one. Mr H. D. Bond has a stock of watches and clocks which can be absolutely depended upon, which ranges from the ordinary “boy-proof” watch to the kind jewelled in every hole.

There is a probability that many of the flax mills in the country will not resume operations at least for some time. There is considerable difficulty in exporting hemp, besides which there has been a substantial drop in values. No business can be done with the' United Kingdom owing to the lack of tonnage, while business with the United States is fitful and the quotations show a decline of £25 per ton.

The question of the treatment of aliens was discussed at a meeting of the executive of the New Zealand Eeturned Soldiers ’ Association at Wellington. It was decided to make strong recommenadtions to,.the Minister for Defence that .men called up for military service for whom exemption has been claimed on the ground of enemy sympathy should bo either interned or enrolled for purposes of national service. The last of the scries of euchre parties organised by St. Margaret's Guild will be held in the Three Stars Theatre to-morrow night. Ever sine© these parties have been initiated they have gone on increasing in popularity, and the management intend that the final party will eclipse all their previous efforts, and are leaving no stone unturned towards that object. The final contests for the aggregate prizes will be held, and there is bound to be some very keen competition. A splendid supper will be provided, and a very enjoyable evening is anticipateo by all . The prices for admission win be as hitherto, gentlemen Is, ladies Is and a basket. The proceedings will open at 8 o’clock sharp.

Sewing cotton was purchasable almost anywhere for 2d per reel in the early half of 1914, but such a change has war wrought that during the present month a similar single reel of cotton will probably cost the housewife 6Jd. The following figures illustrate how the retail prices of standard black and white cotton have increased since war broke out and cotton commenced to be an indispensable material in the destruction of cur enemies: 1914, Is lid per dozen reels; 1916, 2s 9d; 1917, 3s lid; March 1918, 4s 6d; September 1918, 5s 3d. The decision to raise the price of ordinary sewing cotton to 5s 3d per dozen reels was arrived at on Tuesday by a conference of the heads of the leading Welling, ton drapery houses. The effect of that decision will bo that cotton by the reel will now be sold at s£d instead of 4Jd.

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