LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 17 January 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A furnished room in a private home in central position, is to let.

An advertiser wishes to purchase a 5-roomed 'house for cash, as after very long waiting he finds it impossible to get a house in Taihape by any other means.

A cable message to the Australian papers are establishing an aeroplane service to bring news from the Peace oCnfcrence. They will run two machines daily.

The Tamaki Sawmill Co., Ltd., are wanting an almost complete sawmilling staff, including a man for skids and his wife to cook. Sawmill hands should read the advertisement on another page.

What is claimed as a record for shearing in Canterbury is described by a Chertsey resident in a letter to the Lyttelton Times. He states that W. Holmes, of at Mr. P.j Galligan's shed, on January 4 last shered 358 sheep in a "working day." The time is not defintcly stated.

During the war coalmining was an essentia] industry, and men so employed were exempt from military service. The war is over, and the necessity for working in the coal mines does not remain, says the Greymouth Star. The consequence is that many have left the State mines and gone to other parts of the Dominion.

The following vessels will probably be within wireless range to-night: Maori, Mararoa, Monowai and Tofua.

Inland telegrams written in the French Inguage may now be passed without submission to the censor.

■Mails per Makura leave Auckland on January 22nd, closing at Taihape 6.45 p.m. January 21st.