LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 18 June 1920, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wangunui Hospital Board on \Vednesday decided to take steps: to hzxvn '[‘ai!lape Huspifal made :1 in-aiming school for nurses.

A s(-,hu<.»l committee with a substElntill]. credit balance wrote to the \-‘<’;s.ll- - Education Board for a cuDbo2ll‘d for the school. Wllen the aDDliCd'fiol‘ emno before the Board on ‘V9511?-‘Wl33’ evening the chairman moved: “TYIENT the committee be given perlnission t 0 put in the cupboard at its own oxpense.” The resolution was Ca-I'l'i€-(1 ::n:milllously.

Two thousand toiara or red birch fencing posts are wzlllted.b_y Mr Newton King, New Plymouth.

The Pas Lumber Company, Manitoba, is preparing for an output of lumber of 325,0000 ft. per day, equal to a total of 40,000,000 ft for the sea. son. The Wanganui Education Board has decided that where schools were closed for ten days or more owing to influenza, the winter holidays be dis_ pensed with.

The Educqtion Department ‘has a youth of 18 years requiring fiosition on a sheep farm at 30/ per week; also two boys each 15 years of age at 12/6 per week. Further information can be obtained at this oflice.

“I am grateful to New Zealand,” said General 800-th, “for its monetary help. During the War you helped me in comparison with your numbers out of proportion», to any other part of the world. I have used your fine example to stir up the slow-going peo~ ple of other countries, yet, mixed with my gratitude is the feeling that the end of your help is not yet.”

Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow, a Redskin Indian, of Parry Sound, Ontario, is officially credited ‘by the Canadian army with having shot 378 Germans during the War. The corporal. who was a hun’r.el' and trapper in Canada before he enlisted, served as a sharpshooter with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and it is said that he never missed.

Dr Mercher, a member of the French Academy of Medicine, after an extended investigation, has determined tliat, during a period of five months in 1917,_ :1. total of 3,690,000 shells fell on the front of three French armies. The shells, according io Dl‘ Mercher, killed 13,627 men and wounded 55,412, so that it took 395 shells to kill one man.

' At the meeting of the Wanganul Hospital and Charitable Aid Board on Wednesday, the Inspector of Hospitals forwarded recommendations re alterations. and additions to Taihape Hospital. These included reflobring of sanitary blocks of main wards, repairs to tlieatre, steam steriliser for same, additions to laundry, erection of nurses’ home. Dr H. M, Hay, of Taihape, was appointed to the hon. staff of the Taihape Hospital.

The Raukura school has cause to be well satisfied with the result of the judging in the recent Vvinter Show at Taihape, for out of the thirteen children who made entries, six received first prizes, one second, and two third. The following took prizes:—-—Ci:lude Jensen, best collection of leaves, Ist; May Bishop, object drawing, Ist; May Bishop, plant life, Ist‘; Violet Bishop, object drawing, Ist; Violet Bishop, plant life, Ist; Nellie McCombie, plain needlework, Ist; Gordon McCombie, map drawing, 2nd; May Bishop, family cake, 3rd; May Bishop, scones, 3rd.

“Person-.ll_v. I think it would be in the interests of the Dominion, and would tend to great efficiency and economy if we had a. Minister responsible to-r one blg Depa.rtnlen‘rj. like the Post: and Telo;:raph Department, and one Department only,” said Mr G. Mitchell_ M.P., at {he smoke concert of the Xvellington section of the New Ze’nlnnd Post and Tele‘graplr .-\s.sociatioll. "The Prime Minister of this country, too, should be quife free of all Departments, and able to give 21 general Slll'V'E‘Y of fhe Whole of the numerous requirements without being loaded with Depnrfmenfg for himself.”

Molbciii-110 p:lp<+l-s'l'epol't :1 relllal-k----able occlll-1-ellc-:»_ Nine valllable thor--011g11l)I'ed 111ar<3s. owned by Mr S. O’l\'eot'l—>, hol'sebl'eedel'. met their death in :1 1101-50 truck whilst being <:<lllvv_\'ed from MOl-well to Bacchus M.':ll-511. ]CI(_-‘\'(>ll 111211135 \\'lal‘e put in the 11-uck at Morwell. 011 the a1~1'iv:11 of the 1111111 :11 1)z11111o11o11g six of them were di::(*l_l\'l*l'l?d to he dead. and 1111-09 Cfh€"l's wl~ll-0 so badly illjul-ed tTl'at the 1111111-<1 (lvcidod to shoot 1119111. If is sul'lllised that 1111 u11usu:11Iy .<PV9‘l'(’ bump callsod om‘ or more of the zllli—xnalg to fall, and their struggles to I'<o‘f<‘:lill their I've!‘ caused 21 panic 111110111131 the nl‘llm‘s. soon developing intoa I'lllicll.< kicking battle.

.\1 line meeting oi’ the liistoriczll .-ectioii of the Wellington Philosophical S()(',ll“.f\', Miss H5-atlzeriilgton men-tion;-d that in the ‘6o’s of last century four .\u('l(lm1(l men left for Thames in :1 small lmzn. having .-53200 between them. 'l‘h(-y struck gold, and by the time Hwy had enough of mining they ouch had made £40,000. 'l‘lle_v soil} their claims to a eompany, But the company ‘did not meet with success. Miss Healihel'ingi'oil added that one of the men bought. the Duke of Edinburghfs coach, and spent a. large sum of 11101193’ in building a road through an almost impossible piece of country. A.’.lonlt‘.l‘ of me men spent or gzunl)led_ away all his share, and retul'ne(l to his old life. Children like WADE’S WORM FIGS. Safe and certain remedy for worms.

“Am I my brothel-’s keeper?” asks the Senate of the United States, “Not when it costs too much money,” it replies, by an o\'el‘Wholming Vole.

At the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board on Vvednesday evening the appointment of Miss A. R. O'Donnell as third assistant teacher was confirmed.

It was stated that 21 raid was made a day or two ago .011 the premises of an alleged sly grog-seller in Masterton, and that the matter will shortly be given further publicity in the SIM. Court.

It is reported that a. well-known figure in New Plymouth will appear at the Magistrate’s Court in a few days to answer charges under the gaming law. It is understood that 14 separate charges will be laid.

Il‘ is with deepest regret that we have to announce that Mr R. B. Hair, late manager of the Bank of Australasia, at Taihape, passed away at his home, at Man-aja, on" Wednesday evening, 16th inst.,, at 7 ofclock.

Mr J. P, Aldridge has been nominated for the vacant seat on the Wauganui Education Board. Mr Aldridge was a member of the Education Board a few years ago when he did excellent Work for the various s‘choo!s in this district_

An interesting photograph was on view in the dairy produce section at the Winter Show at New Plymouth, :1 picture of four dairy cows. One is the first pedigree Jersey cow brought to Taranaki. The animal belonged to the late Mr W. K. Hulke, who led her by road from Feilding "to Taranaki in the dafis before the railways_

.\ very painful accident, fortunately unattended with fatal consequences, occurred at Mr F. Mickclson’s farm at Tiriraukawa on Wednesday evening. It appears A. Mickelson (a son of .\lr Mickelson’s) and a young man named Jas. Thorpe were filling a “Wizardi’ lamp with benzine, one of them holding a lighted candle. By some mischance ‘the henzine splashed and the vapour ca‘t'ching alight, yoiing Micke'lson’s clothes were speedily :1. mass of flames, and he rushed _iulo the open air, which‘ only fanned the flames.” When Mr Mickelson went out to see what -had hafiipened, he saw hisson rushing about enveloped in flames. He shouted out to him to lie. down and roll, which the boy forf'unately did, and Mr Mickelson ‘tearing off the burning garments, quickly relieved him, but not before he was severely burned about the chest, hands and face. Young Thorpe was also hédly bu.rn&d about the neck, face, and hands. "Dr Sinclair was telephoned for, and with his usual promptitude, was on the spot Within an hour. After dressing the bums, he ordered the boys’ removal to the hospital, where they are_progressing favourably. Thelbuilding in which the accident took place was damaged by fire, but this was soon put out by a hose of water, which has :: 6Olb pressure.