LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 30 October 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Messrs. White and Sons' advertise for a young girl as an apprentice to the drapery.

A suit-case, taken from the Town Hall by mistake, containing stage dress, believed to be lost on the train between Taihape and Ohakune, is advertised for. As the case contains dress in connection 1 with the Red Cross concert, it is hoped it will be promptly returned.

A well-known local sport and member of the Otaihape Club secured a row of reserved seats .at Everybody’s tomorrow night, and invites members of the Huia A team, Old G-irls and School team to make use of them To view the pictures which will include the cinematograph of the Red Cross Carnival.

In another column Mr. N. Denness apologises to his customers for any inconvenience they may have suffered through occasional omission of his delivery cart to wait on them. Mr Denness explains that the trouble was the result of men staying away from work without giving any warning of their intention so to do.

At Levin last week Detective-Ser-geant Andrews, of Wellington, arrested a man named Francis Robert Matthews, on a charge, of alleged theft of £375, the property of the Bank of Australasia, on August 12 last. He was remanded to appear at Levin on November 1, and admitted to bail, himself in £2OO and two sureties of £IOO.

An official statement estimates the deaths resulting from the influenza epidemic in Capetown alone 7400, of whom 25 per cent were Europeans. At Kimberley the death roll is now nearly 5000. It is probable the total mortality in the Union approximates 20,000. The epidemic everywhere is abating except in Rhodesia, where it is at its height

Further evidence of the serious shortage of pigs in the Dominion comes from Inglewood. At a meeting of bacon-factory shareholders, held at Inglewood recently, the chairman reported upon the measures that large factories and many of the merchants were compelled to pursue to carry on. The bacon had to be imported from Australia, and it could not be imported and sold at the same price as in the past.

The bowling green will be formally opened to-morrow afternoon,' provided the weather is propitious.

An official return shows that the total of deaths of members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces to the 14th inst., was 15,051 (comprising 689 officers and 14,362 men).

The total for the Taihape Red Cross effort is expected to be upwards of £2IOO. Particulars in detail are likely to be ready for Thursday’s issue of this journal.

The takings at the Grand Revue on Monday night totalled approximately £lB5, This included £SO on sale of a flag, £25 taken at the sweet stall, and £4 collected by Mrs. Captain Batt outside the Town Hall,

A splendid war film, entitled “The Battle of Arras” will be shown at the King’s on Friday night. This is one of the most realistic pictures of the great war, and bears the official imprimatur It is to be screened for one night only.

Says an Australian writer: A friend of mine was one of the Anzacs recently in New York. He complained that he couldn’t get a chance to pay for anything. “At last he wrote, I went into what they call a drug store to get some tooth-paste. I told them there must be no nonsense about it; I was going to pay. and I passed over a five dollar bill. They were nice about it, and gave me my change. When having left America I opened the parcel I found my five doallr bill in it. They had got one over on me. ’ ’

The C2 Medical Re-examination Board has nearly completed its work. There will not be many more drafts for the Cl, Camp. It is understood that the authorities do not intend to call up any more C2 men for re-exam-ination. The camp has satisfied its original purpose well. It has provided some thousands of First Division recruits for the Forces. A few hundred more might be obtained by further re-examinations, but the official view is that it is not worth while to disturb thousands of men in order to get a small number of additional recruits. It is not intended to re-examine Second Division C2 men.