LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 September 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND G EN E RAL .

Included in the latest casualty list is the name of Lance-Corporal J. K. Maughan, Taihape, who was wounded on August 29,

A party of four Thames fishermen is stated to have taken SOO dozen fish last week, realising over £9O. Another party’s earnings, for the week- are given by the local paper as £BO.

The old chemical fire engine, which has so long found a resting place in the local fire brigade station, has at last been sold, the purchaser being Mr. J. A. Smith, of Wellington, and the price £3O.

Mr. Bonar Law, in saying farewell to the Canadian editors, said the situation was different from the black days of March, “But,” he added “there is a long road stilUahead, and the utmost endurance, is required. .

An appellant at -the Palmerston sitting of the Military Appeal Board yesterday! stated that he had two brothers at the front, one of whom had a family of seven and the other a family of three.

A soldier who is doing" compulsory home service in Trentham Camp appealed to the Military Service Board in Wellington, on the ground that he was a shearer. "“We cannot take men cut of camp to do shearing,” was the chairman’s brief comment. “No recommendation.”

A new avenue for the employment of women has been suggested in Wellington—that they should enter the bakehouses. Captain Beale military representative, told the Military Service Board that women did a great deal of the baking in France; and, if the war should continue for some time, it might bo necessary for inducements to be offered to women to do the work in New Zealand.

It is understood, that the Parliamentary session will not begin as early in October as was first intended. This is due to the fact that Cabinet, in view of impending legislation of the greatest importance, is desirous of conferring with Mr Massey and Sir Joseph Ward as to the course and extent of the Parliamentary programme. The two leaders are expected to visit Washington this week to make an official call on Mr Wilson.

The Times correspondent at American headquarters says that the Germans in the. Vosges sector are employing special night raiding troops, and resorting to numerous tricks to entrap the Americans. They invariably fail however, for the Americans soon learned the enemy’s game, and have become experts in the night-long guerrilla fighting. Deserters from the German lines are increasing, and include many Prussians and Austrians.

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