LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, 12 April 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

First class trousers and vest tailor-c-nso-s are advertised for by Mr J. J. McDonald, of Marton. Britain is demanding the immediate return to England of any of her guns which, may he on show as trophies of war in Berlin streets.

A Defence Department progress report shows that the total number of officers, n.c.o.'s, and men returned to New Zealand up to March 31 is 41.722.

One of the questions brought before the Minister for Education at Masterton was the necessity for having appliances bandy in schools in ease of accident or sickness. ,The provision of an ambulance outfit and clinical thermometers at each school was urged. The Minister promised to give the matter his close consideration.

According to a Boston despatch to the New York World, Mr. R. a. Cram, a member of the Boston House Planning Board, announces that the record for a working man's war wages Ricer shipbuilding yards, Bostcty, The die-cutter, was given a new machine which permitted a great increase in the output of his work, while at the same timo he remained on the piece-work basis of pay. In consequence, he had £44 daily for lour months!

The annual meeting of the Taihap*. and District Patriotie Society will be held in the Town Hall Supper Room, at 8 o'clock on Monday evening.

A charge of having obtained 29/6 by a forged cheque was admitted by a boy of 15 years at the Auckland Police Court. It was stated that the boy, whose parents were not in the district, obtained a blank form from his employers' cheque-book, forged his employer's name and secured payment from a woman. The boy was committed to the Weraroa Training Farm.

House-hunting is still an unpopuar occupation in Wellington. Contrary to expectation, the position has not been relieved in any way by the closing of the camps. A five-roomed house at Berhampore was recently advertised as vacant, and the owner received just on 200 applications from would-be tenants. He disappointed all by announcing a day later that the place had been sold.

If all stories are true, the "wily Jap," had signalled his entry in some amusing ways into commercial relations with New Zealand firms, It is alleged that a certain New Zealand concern, anxious to obtain a substitute for an article of German origin, forwarded a sample to a Japanese manufacturer, 'Accompanying the .sample was an inquiry whether the Japanese could turn out just such a line at a price within reasonable range of that formerly paid by the importers. Evidently the effort demanded turned out to be mere child's play to the Jap, for recently a splendid imitation of the sample came to hand—with not even the legend "Made in Germany," omitted.