LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 14 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Twelve fresh eases of influeriza were reported on Thursday at Karangahake, making a total of 40 for the second outbreak. Assistance has been sent from Thames.

Preparations for taking the licensing poll are already in hand. Though the date has not been fixed, a large amount of preliminary work has to be done, and it. is uncertain how far this will be - affected by the influenza epidemic.

iMossrs. Dalgety and Co., acting under instructions from the Defence Dcpartmest, will sell by public auction without reserve 20 draught horses and 150 hacks, at Featberston Military Camp on Thursday. December .19. Particulars appear on page S.

Candidate: "I am a staunch supporter of prohibition." A voice: "Arc you in favour of extension and reduction?" Candidate: "I'm afraid the question is hardly clear." The voice: "What I mean is are in favour of extension in the length of glasses and reduction in the price'?" (Loud laughter.)

"I think we will find plenty to do for many years to come," stated M£ L. 0. H. Tripp, the chairman of the War Belief Association in Wellington when a member of the committee suggested a possibility of closing down shortly. "There will be many cases of distress arising out of the war for some time to come," he added.

It is understood in London that the control of the wool trade will be transferred shortly from the War Office to the Board of Trade. Porbably large quantities of wool will be released shortly for civilians, and also much khaki, which can bo dyed for civilian clothes.

A good prospective tenant wants a house furnished or unfurnished. Is another married man to be driven away for want of a house? The following pupils passed in the recent examination in the junior classes for book-keeping: Hazel M. Cleaver, Marion M. Shanley and Winifred M. TTmbs.

As the work of cleansing and fumigation of buildings has not been completed, no services will be held in the Presbyterian Church on Sunday. The church will, be re-opened on Sunday the 22nd inst.

The Eailway Department intend running relief express trains during the Christinas holidays, commencing on AVednesday next, December 18th. Goods and live-stock traffic will be suspended at all stations on December 25th and 26th- and January Ist and 2nd.' Particulars as to times, etc., will be found in our advertising columns.

T'.e New Zealand Free Lance Christmas Annual for 1918 comes as a good, seasonable tonic after the past trying weeks of the epidemic. It is just out and is bright and entertaining from cover to cover, and is thoroughly racy of the soil and redolent of the Christmas season. Its 56 pages arc profusely illustrated with amusing cartoons by leading artists and various stories and verse from the pens of well-known New Zealand writers. Amongst the pictures is a splendid double-page drawing in half-tone, entitled "The Eeturn of the Second Division: Daddy's Welcome Home," by D. H. Souter, the wellknown Sydney "Bulletin" artist. This 56-page Annual is published at one shilling. It is a holiday number that ought not to be missed, and is just the thing for posting - away to friends abroad.

The Auckland City Council has brought down a comprehensive scheme of municipal housing for workers, in which it is proposed to erect 224 houses in three city areas at a total cost of £165,850. It was recommended that the material should be brick or concrete for the external walls, and also for internal Avails wherever possible; rooms should be plastered and the floors of living-rooms, kitchens and bedrooms of wood; other floors to be of concrete of a smooth surfaee; roofs tiled or slated. The scheme was discussed, and the opinion was expressed by the Mayor that the rentals should be from 12/6 to 15/ per week. Ho stated that the question of the workers eventually acquiring the fee-simple would have to be considered. Further action was deferred until after the holidays.