LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3420, 26 February 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A gold bangle, lost on the Show Ground, yes:’Lel-day, is advertised Im: A reward will !be paid the finder on I‘etul‘l'lillg it to Nicholls’ garage.

Chairman of District Council: “Now, gentlemen, why can’t we'~put our heads together and erect some of them wooden houses?

A lost side curtain fl-om his mutor car‘ is advertised for by Dr Mac'f.)iarmid. The finder might be good enough to leave it at 71155 -‘Jflicbh

A Palmerston North trade;s.ulan Says two of the largest biscut fuC< tories in the Dominion have czloséd dOWn owing to -the shox-ta,;*,'e of sugar.

In Taranaki the penalty for °'I’“~“"1‘ ing ‘has been increased, and 011 last Court days fines of £5 and £lO W'3l'€ inflicted on motorists for bx-eaches of the speed law.

A notification of particular interest to parents and employers, in c«:-n1xec-tion with the registrativm of ‘*hi‘.(h-r.-n between the ages of 14 and 17 _z'c:_:ls-., appears in another column.

Subscribers not receiving their paper are asked to communicate with this office with as little delay as POSsible. New boys have been engaged to whom the retiring runners have not communicated the list of subrsefibers on their runs‘.

The funeral of the late Patrick Leahy took place on Tuesday afternoon ,leaving the Catholic Church at 2 o’clock; The extreme length of the cortege which followed to the Taihape cemetery indicated the respeet in which the deceased was held in this neigh=bour.hood. Four priesfs were present at the graveside.

The secretary of the 'l‘a.ihape and District Returned Soldiers .»'\ssua.:i:l.tion has procured from the Labour Department plans and specifications: complete for two types of five-roamed rottages which are being erect.~.-d in the various centres under the Workers’ Dwellings Act. Any retl_lrne-.1 soldier desirous of erecting a d‘avei‘.in..~_.*, on a section owned by him should inspect these plans.

A bird came home to roost the other day in tlle‘o'ffice of the Daily Truth, the ofiicial organ of the Broken Hill A.M.A. which has been preaching the doctrine of direct action for years‘ past, says an Australian exchallge. The boys employed to deliver the paper struck for some reason or other, despite various promises by the heads, including one that an independent person should consider their claims and give a verdict. The boys follow~ ed the example of their tutors, and merely said “To Hell with arb'itmtion” and then they were all sacked. Such is the brutal way of tyrant cap ital!

A telegram from Hobart to a Sydney paper states: George Pearce, aged 17, had a remarkable experience while rabbitling with his father near Strickland. He thrust his hand into a hole to pull out a rabbit, and his thumb‘ was immediately seized by what was subsequently found to he a large snake. He dragged» the snake out of the hole, still hanging to his thumb, and called to his father, who killed the snake. The father's pocket knife was too blunt to treat the wound, and "he therefore told the lad to hold his thumb at the end of the gun barrel, and, pulling the trigger, blew the thumb off. The lad was taken to the nearest doctor, and he is now progressing satisfactorily.

“What finally won the var," said General Sir W. Birdwood at the Molbourne Y.M.C.A. Club rooms, “was the high morale of our troops, and towards keeping up the morale of our troops there was no better organisation than the ~Y.M.C.A. With it, too, I filace the Australian Comforts Fund, the Red Cross looking after the men when they entered hospital, and the Y.M.C.A. and the Comforts Fund caring for the fit at the front and Uehind the line. The Y.M.C.A. did a. great deal in the war, and it can do just as much, and more now that the war is over. It can do more than most people in keeping our boys together on the road of high service. If the YM. C.A. can continue the work it did in the war, it will win the thanks of everyone.