LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 23 June 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sir Joseph Ward sails from London by the Maurctania on the 27th and joins the Niagara at Vancouver.

Advice has begn zeceived that returning draft 260 (I’.uub.iue) will not arrive in Welling'cn until July 6.

In order to prevent the invasion of rabbits of the Waimarino County, the con’-trolling local body has decided to erect a rabbit‘-proof gate on the Weugaehu bridge on the Ol’l'éfkune-Wai-ouru road, near Tangawai.

Five members of the warship Australia's crew were sentenced to terms of from one to, two years’ imprisonment and to be dismissed from the service for beingconnectcd with the mutiny’ at Frcmantle on June Ist. ‘

Tallow sold ‘in Dannevirkc last week fetched the record price of 36/ per cwt. Horses hides, 15/6;-and prime calf-skins 22s_ -

The Defence Department will provide medical treatment for discharged soldiers suffering from a recurrence of illness arising out of service with the forces. Application for treatment may be made to the nearest defence office, to a hospital superintendent, or to the assistant director of medical services in the cities.

A peculiar fatality‘ ocucrred at Motueka (Nelson) rec-;.3t]y, Two men killed a pig and suspended the cu‘case from a scaffold. The tackle broke and the pig fell on are of the menGharles Nelson, a aingle man aged 50 —who died instantly_. whether from dislocation of the neck, or heart failure is not yet clear.

A property in Queen Street, Auckland, situated just above Vulcan Lane, owned by John Endean, was purchased recently by J. R. McKenzie, the total sum involved in the sale fbeing £19,500. The property consists of a freehold of 22ft. occupied by a jeweller, and leaseholdg of the same frontage occupied by a tobacconist, and one of Sanford’s branch shops. Both run through to High Street_

According to commercial advices received in Auckland, the Mvakura has gone, or is going, to San Francisco to load tlgere. It was reported a few days -ago that, in consequence [of the strike at "Vancouver, @llO cargo which she carried from New Zealaud had not been unloaded. Aj)pa.l'ently an early termination of the s.tl'ike is ,n«ot expected, and it is intended -to, load at San Francisco instead of at .V«anc'ouver.

A proposal to thoroughily bridge and metal the main road ffom Raetihi, to Te Kuiti fs under considel-‘ation, and a conference of local bodes interested is to be held at Taumarunui on July 3rd_ In addition 3to the Waitomo, Ohura, Kaitieke, nßangitikei\,.and Waimarino County Councils,vthe Wellington and Auckland Chambers .‘of ComIllol'CC‘_a}'o_to be invited -to -send dclegatcs. «It is proposed to make, the rpaa a section of. the main, road from Auckland. to Wellington. M -_ .

' A North Ofago farmer struek £1 geld .mine in a paddock of" wheat he was fortunate enough to possess this season (says the Oamvamu Mail)‘. He had put in 60 acres, and from this area, he reaped 80 bushels to the acre, his cheque for wheat amounting to between £ISOO and £I6OO. All fm’-mars did not rc-up 80 bushels to the acre; but a. great nlzlny obtained re‘rul'n_s from wheat that it would have been impossible to obtain fnom any other item in the many that the man on the land has to turn his attexxtion to.

“No fu‘rthel' pension,” was the suc. einct reply handed to an applicant at the sitting of the New Zealand Pension Board, which was concluded at Auckland on Saturday morning. The soldier affected had been discharged with a ~t.ubercular growth in the arm, and allowed a temporary pension for six months at the rate of £2 3/4 a month. Though recommended for per~ manent conmpensation when boarded in England, on account of the disability, the case had, in the New Zealand board’s opinion, been fully compensated by an ‘amount Wotalling £l3. '

“I was most sceptical about waterdivining,” declared Mr T. o‘. Fox, engineer to the Miramaii Bonoiugh Council, Wellington, “until we went out with Mr Clarke the other day. Now I am quite eonvineed_t.hua.t it is ‘quite all right. I deliberately set ,traps for him without letting anyone know, but he beat me every "time. At one time I led him over an 8-inch main, where there was nothing to show that the main was underneath, but. as soon as he got over it his nerves‘ began to jump in a most extraordinary manner. He Joented three of our mains that way. It convinced me!” The Borough Council is being recommended to sink a well where Mr Clerks located a big flow in Seatoun. ’

Uncertainty seems to exist among returned soldiers as to pyament of Post Office Saving Bank allotments. The position is that where the localities of the accounts are known, SOl- - requiring payments may arrange to operate on their accounts by producing their pay-books at the MoneyOrder Oflices at which they desire to obtain withdrawals, when the post.-mas-ter will arrange transfers of the accounts. Soldiers are informed of the localities of acounts as soon as possible after their arrivalgand postmasters wil afford infornmtion con‘cerning these accounts to soldiers inquiring. In cases where soldiers applying for Post Office Savings Bank allotments are not aware of the locali;ties at which their accounts are held, ?i‘E‘ will be necessary for them to tele*graph to the offieer in charge of War iPensions, or apply to the nearest De,fence Ofiice.