LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 December 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The steamer Doresf, which went ashore in Wellington Harbour, was refloated early yesterday morning, and berthed at King’s w r harf. (Lieutenant Bassett, who was the first New Zealander to win the Victoria Cross during the recent Avar, is to arrive in Auckland shortly. A public reception is to be tendered him. Prices of furniture have gone up by 33i to 50 per cent, during the past six months, a Christchurch Press reporter has been informed. The cause of this is ascribed to a serious shortage in oak and glass. Hew regulations are being prepared to give effect to that section of the Appropriation Act authorising expenditure up to the amount of £IIB,OOO in granting increases of salaries to teachers, and in providing for enlargement of staffs of schools. An enterprising manufacturer of jalann- docks has just put on the market a new and particularly effective alarm clock, which he calls ‘ 1 The National Anthem ”on the ground that whenever you hear it you have to get up.. A defendant who appeared in a maintenance case heard at the Christchurch 'Magistrate’s Court said that he had worked for an undertaker as a driver for one rveek during the height of the influenza epidemic. That Avcek he had made £lti. Chapman’s Boot Arcade, next R. Wilson and Co.’s Taihape, have a special Christmas notification on page of this issue. Mr Chapman asks for public notice of his boots and shoes on price and quality, and he particularly stresses his stock of footwear for the "kiddies. In another column the Railway Department appeals to prospective travellers to adjust their movements .as Tar as can be made convenient so that a depleted service and staff AvilJ -iiM be'asked to during the holidays that which It is incapable of. Many travellers can make it convenient to travel before or after the holidays, and merchants and others can avoid having merchandise freighted so as to leave holiday traffic free for increased passenger business

At the last meeting of the Wanganui Education Board intimation wms received from the Department that £525 had been received for the purchase of site and enlargement of school at Taurangarero. Miss W. Myer was appointed to sole charge of the Ngamatca School. Leave of absence was granted to Miss B. MeDonell, Taihape, and W. A. Gonuly, assistant at Rangataua. “The terrible housing conditions that have been revealed in Wellington and other cities can only bo solved by a Labour Government,’ 7 said Mr F. Fraser, M.P., at a meeting at Brooklyn, In some parts of Te Aro he added, the houses were 29 to the acre. “The Governor would not put his horses into many of these houses. ’’ Most of the people there, he said,' were not there because the? wanted to be there, but because they could not afford to live anywhere else* In his speech at Newton, Mr. Semple said women were good enough to go to the gates of death for civilisation and to fight disease, but they were not good enough to sit in Parliament. In the slum quarters of this city they had honest and respectable people who were penned there: “You had a City Council in Wellington which could have clipped the wings of the landlords. You had a Parliament but they represented the vested interests. Do you mean to say a -woman would not have more feeling for a woman who was trying to bring up a family in such surroundings? Wouldn’t you sooner trust them than those frosty faced old scoundrels?”