LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, 9 August 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The New Zealand Soldiel's’s Rugby team defeated Orange Free State by 16 points to 5.

There have been :1 number of resignations from depar't'ments"at the Petone railway workshops recently_ Many of, the skilled mechanics realise that they can earn more money outside Government employment, and 3. number of them have aceeptea positions in 11101201‘ garages.

It was stated in Wellillgtoll 011 Thursday that the effect of the I‘oS’sl'io' tion of passenger traflic by the “permit” system was that far more goods are going forward than would otherwise have been possilile, and it is 2111' ticipatcd that in the course of the next few days the good results will be found to be even more satisfactory.

It is announced that 99:794 flares of Crown lands are to be OP-‘med f‘§r_ selection during the present Ifl,oTltE;,._‘§ addition, 8488 acres are to DC .OpCnLt in September. In the current Gfazetl e 1340 acres of settlement land. 3“ \Vellington district are PT°°lm'm_cd 101 soldiel'~settle-ment; 4010 acres _ln FlO Hz-.n'kc’s Bay district; ‘ma 2170 1n canterbury. *

Several cases of theff of txrticleivy the pl'oper’r.y of the New Zeafland G-ov-ernmen’.*_. have been reported Of late,itllrl the detectives and 1101100 h?~"° l)1'o11gl1t several offenders to .l“StiC'~‘Articles belonging to the Defence .Departmcnt appear to be specially favoured. At the Magish-a'te’g Court, Wellington, the chief detective asked for a xx:-maml to 'Wallg':lllni ff :1 young 1112111 nzuned Joseph .~\l\l._w:l‘, C}l:ll'gk‘.d Will‘the ‘rizeff of blankefs. Valued at 2320, ?l'-- pl-o,'~el'tjv nf the GOV(‘1‘11I110ll'f. It zellugml that the articles in quesfion ‘.\‘el'e f.-Alien from a. store in \Vangallui_ A,eeu:<9d was a‘.'l'ester_l «shortly after his :11'1'i\':1l in \Velling’ron.

A shock of earthquake was felt ix‘l Taihape last night at 9.35. The shock which was a fairly sharp olTe',' travelled in a northerly to southerly direction.

A well-known Westmere resident, who recently purchased a.pol»pe,_-ty of 300 acres at Hamilton for £SO an acre, has been offered and refused £IBOO on his bargain.

The Southland Presbytery” by 11 votes to 5, voted in favour of Church union, provided it did not undermine the principles of, or interfere with the work of the Presbyterian Church.

The following vessehs will be within wireless rangs to-night: Maori, Mamroa, Suifolk, Prinzessin, Moana, Ru.a.. hine, Mokoia, Waimana and Tahiti. For Sunday: Moana. Ruahine, Wai. mana, and‘ Tahiti.

The transport Port Hacking is expected to arrive at Lyttelton on August 16tH, with 1014 men of all ranks, the majority of whom are fqr the South Island. Sergeant G. W. M. Parkes, of Ohakune Junction, is the only name which4_appears on the list from this district.

“I managed to buy a house,” said a witness in a tenement case, at the 1 Wellington Magistrate ’s Court on‘ Thursday, but plaintively zfdded: “the only thing is the tenant won’t get out, and I’m stuck.” Later on it was stated that the house had seen sold over the head of the other party to the suit. The Magistrate (Mr W. G. -Riddell) ' agreed that in many cases the hardships and inconveniences were not com fined to the defendant, but fell ‘on both parties

The Wellington Woollen Mills -have had another excellent year. The profit and loss account shows a gross profit for the year of £59,911, the balance to appropriation being £24,903. Big dividends and bonuses being paid. The restricted supply and increased prices obtaining ffor‘ Heine woollens and tweeds provide ‘theiiiocal companies with "an opportunity to’ make a rich harvest—at the people”s expense. ‘ A W

Inconvenience to the. travelling public -is apparently not the onlyeffcct of‘ the restricted .train srvice. The Otago'Daily Times ,unders'tands that "a .number of men on the permanent staff who, on the inauguration of tlie new timetable, were sent on their annual leave; are now about to replace several casual employees in the goods department. The majority of the latter are married men, and include some re’_cul‘ned soldiers.

A very interesting article on “The Lalley Light” appears on iiagz‘ 6 of this issue, where the advantages. and mechanical exceflences of this latest eolltribut'ioll to the _.-conveniences of home life are fuigly explained. Hitherto it has been the custom, when one wanted 1:0 stress the perfection. of mechanical motion, to say, “it runs like a watch,” but" after reading this article one will be tempted to advance :1, step, and say, “it runs like a ‘-Lalley Light’ plant.”

That dairy companies are not always successful when they enter the storo—keoping business was shown by th Moa Company's experience last year, when though the big sum of £15,438 -was turned over, the net profit was only £292_ The chairman said that one of"the reasons for‘? the small profit was the difficulty of buying on a falling mal-‘ket, -but’ a shareholder pointed out that he found prices instead of” coming down were going up all the time.

An ofiicer of the Labour Department ill‘fODlllCd that in order to give satisfaction it would be necessary to grade tradesmen. He suggested three grades, and that the grading should be done by :1 competent committee. A basic Wage had been laid down by the A.rbitration Court, and by classifying tradesmen the anomaly of making the minimum \\'a-go the m:1xi1n11111, thus placing good and indifferent tradesmen on the same level, would be overcome. The Cairpenters’ Union liad made an zittempt in this direction, and the system had been establislicfd‘ in America for some time.

Evidence crops up unexpectedly at times that people”who are keenly deSil'olls Of selling their land to the Government. for the purposes of soldier settlement are not always as disinterested it their motives as they would have the public, and p:u'tieulal'l_\' the Lands Depm'txnent.. believe. At the meeting; of the North Auckland Land J3'oard yestenlay aft'el'noon, the Comnlissionel' (I\ll' R. P. Greville) alluded to :1 case reported in} the press where :1 man in Cantm-bul'_\»' had reduced his selling value. by £350. “VVO can do better than that,” said Mr Greville. “we have :1 case where :1. propertyowner came down to the extent of £2300.” Tlm sp(‘al{(‘l' stated that the man at first asked £7230 for his property, and finally reduced. this price to £SOOO.

Evening Scarves in Ninon and Crepe dc Chine in pale pink, rose pink, saxe and white 19/6 each.———Collinson and Gifford, Ltd. '

A larger number of people are travelling from Masterton to Wellington by motor car than are." travelling by train.

The Bible has been prohibit_cd in Boishevist prisons as a “collnter-re§'o. lutionary” book, states -a returned prisoner from Petrograd.

A Progressive League has been promoted to “boost” Masterton, and it has been decided to raise a local guarantee of £SOO per annum for the purposes of engaging a secret:Ll'y-organiser. Wanganui has also got a Progressive League-

In our report of""Ehe meeting of lafiics held on Thursday night to make arrangements for the forthcbnring l§‘il'e Brigade ball, the names of Mesdames Green al'ld-Thomasen and Miss MeAuliffe. were inadvertently omitted from the lis.t of ladies present. These three Ladies were also appointed to the General Committee, in adition to those already published.

Here is a tale of a. Fritz who tried at the end of the war to Commit suicide. His first step wa's to buy a. rope to hang himself with, but, being made of paper, it broke. Next he tried poison, but being ea weak substitute, it only made him ill. He ‘went to the

river to seek peace in its waters, but 'the crowd-ahead ofhhis was so dense that he never could reach its banks. Finally, he determined’ to confine his food to the Government ration——-and in a few days he was dead of starvation.

A German U-boat officer detained in the Tower of London on suspicion of having sunk hospital ships has been identified as Commander Keisei-wetter. He was -one of the “dog~foxes” of the German subma.rine service; that is one of the -boldest and most cruel oflicors_ He was in command of one of the U-boats" interned. in Spain which have been surrendered to France, and was on his ‘way back to Germ_any.with, as he claims, a safecondfiet from the :_F'rench ‘authorities. He was arrested at Faln;'plTitll_.‘ .' H

A In order to mi-tigafe =in—some degree the ineonvVé'l"lience's*" .;en-fia.iZxed'. : by. .the latest railway restrictions,‘-‘ the Chamber of Commerce has got -into CO-mlllulli-Aca.tion'witll' the Railway Department, asking ‘that-athe resitrietions re» laxed -befween Hihitahi, on one side, and ‘Utiku on" the other side of ATai~ hape, to enable residents to‘ jdo their business in Taihape.‘ It was pointed out that the state of the traffic road between Taihape and Hihitahi was quite impassable, and the railway was the only vehicle by which people could come into Taihape. The fact was also emphasised that the additional traifie entailed by the relaxa-tion over so short a section would not greatly inconvenience the usual train traflic, but would be a real bo=On to those persons on whose behalf "the request was made. A reply from_tlle Department has not yet been received. _‘ _

“It’s ‘the thin end of the wedge,” said 3. spectator at >3. recent costume ball in London, on seeing slim in-aidens pouring in clad in various types of trousers and breeches_ And the other ‘end of ‘the wedge you’ll see in a few minutes.’’- The “other end” was soon personifiefl in a “pixie.” There was no back to'hel' dress, there was very little front, and nothing to speak about in the. way of sides. 7 The skirt came to an abrupt end well above the knee, the only other article of dress were a pair of black stockings, and a pair of shoes. She was not alone in her daring, either,

for the general tendency was all in this direction. There is liberty enough in the streets and thoroughfares these days; theatre dresses become scantier each night, but the climax is reached at the costume ball, where the minimum of concealment is aimed at, and what would once have been considered daring 0 the beach at Osted in the bathing season now passes unnoticed in the general outbreak of “undress” costumes. ""

Several interesting points i'n‘connec—tion with Church mission work were mentioned by Bishop Averill in his address to the Auckland synod. “The missionary problems in the Pacific are at the present times tremendous,” he said. “There are still numbers of islands where the church is doing 110thing, and many more where the work is quite insignificant in proportion to the need. It is most important that Polynesia should be linked up in some way with ‘Australia and New Zcaland as a missionary diocese, and that tfic Cook Island should come definitely under our spiritual care. The ‘good old days’ of tho Meg-

anosi-an Mission have come to an end, if ever they existed, and if the evangzelisatiozi of Melanesia is to be taken seriously in hand there niust at once be a division of the diocese info two, if not three, dioceses.” Another question to be faced, said" Bishop Averill, was the possibility of giving up the I'lliSSiOll_Ship and attaching one or both dioceses to Australia_ The question would probably be decided by -3. commission which would Inoot in Wellington next month. ‘ _

No more grinding of teeth with WADE’S WORM FIGS. Pricm/6. 4 65. a bottle. ’ 4