LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 23 November 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A one-story building in Bombay collapsed under the first monsoon of the year. Six adults -were hurt, but ia three-months-old baby,, tied to a wooden post in tho floor, escaped without a scratch.

Investigation of a set of books in the library of the late Archdeacon Samuel .B’oddy, in Toronto, disclosed a sum of £420 in uncashed cheques and banknotes, which he had apparently used absent-mindedly as bookmarks.

Cabinet sat yesterday, dealing principally with finance, and did not roach the Referendum Bill or the question of representatives at the Peace Conference. It is understood that a huge scheme for water power development in tho North Island is about to be launched. Mr Parry, chief electrical engineer, who has resigned to take a lucrative position in London, will not leave for a few months.

"Yours are the dirtiest trains I have ever travelled in,” said an Australian visitor to a Dominion reporter. "If our trains in New South Wales or Victoria were run on your lines there would be a general outcry from one end of the State, to the other. I have never in my life—and I have tnaveiled a good deal —seen such filthy lavatories and wash-basins. They are enough to put ia man off having a wash on a train. It is generally difficult to get an ample supply of water, and the towels, ugh-”

The Auckland Herald of Friday states: ‘ ‘ Although the correspondence posted in Auckland is thoroughly treated with a view of removing the danger of influenza infection, if is not possible to fumigate the contents of letters. Writers, are, therefore, requested to bo very careful to see they do not spread the epidemic by means of letters.. They iare warned not to write letters while they are in the convalescent stage nor in a building which is likely to be infected with influenza germs.” This warning might well be made a note of by letter writers in Taihape find district. , ;

The Spring Meeting of the Auckland Racing Club has been postponed until January 4, owing to the influenza epidemic. . -

The attention of teachers is drawn to a notice inserted in this issue by the Wanganui Education Board respecting the closing of schools.

Messrs Ward and Co. announce in another column that their rooms are still open for the sale of new furniture, bedding, crockery, etc.

Owing to the influenza epidemic there will be no services to-morrow in tho Presbyterian Church. Both the church and the hall are being used as temporary hospitals. The Rev. F. McDonald, who has been laid aside suffering from influenza is making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Attention is drawn to the requirements of the District Health Officer, as to disinfecting and cleansing of billard rooms, hairdressing saloons, picture theatres, etc., before they will be allowed to be re-opened. The disinfecting and cleansing must be down to the satisfaction of the Inspector, under the Public Health Act, Mr. Swindells.

In our advertising columns the Mayor (Mr A. L. Arrowsmith) is appealing to the public of Taihape for gifts of children's clothing for distribution amongst children who have lost parents. Any person having anything to give is asked to merely ring up No. 4, the Town Hall, and inform the Mayor of what they have to give As a real and extreme necessity exists in this connection it is hoped there will be a large and ready, response.

The Inglewood Record advertises in a Now Plymouth paper as follows: "The proprietary tender their sincere apology for the non-appearance of the Inglewood Record, for the first time in its life. Although, the staff all left alive and well on Saturday evening, only two showed up this morning, and one had to be taken home per motorcar within an hour, the editor and boy being the only ones, left, rendering publication impossible."

By ‘ ‘ Gazette Extraordinary” issued on Thursday, His Excellency the Gov-ernor-General .under section 18 of the Public Health Act,-. 1908, conferred upon all district health officers under the Act power and authority, with the approval of the Minister for Public Healthy to prohibit the siale within their districts of tall alcoholic liquor for the purpose of more effectually checking or preventing the spread of influenza.

The Public Hospital is hampered in the noble work it is accomplishing in fighting the raging epidemic, by want of assistance. The hopsital is in immediate want of help in the laundry, to-day tho last. laimdry. worker left, and the institution „is without anyone to attend tp that important par of influenza fight. Two women are wanted at once, to whom good wages will be paid, and it is hoped that two nobleminded women will apply so that the good, work of life-saving may go on without hindrance.