NEW ZEALAND.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 78, 21 August 1914, Page 8

NEW ZEALAND.

PAHIATUA'S RECORD. By Telegraph—Pro, Association, l'ahiatua, Last Xight. The Pahiatua and Akitio district between then have subscribed nearly .tIAGp. The Pahiatua ladies hope to raise £2OO for the Liverpool Fund. They have, decided to open a fund for local distress immediately resulting from the war. HAWERA COUNTY'S GIFT. Hawera. Last Xight. ~ The Hawera County Council to-day decided to contribute £250 to the Patriotic Fund. Jf the occasion demands it another like amount, will be given later \ TIMARU'S PRACTICAL PATRIOTISM. Timaru, Last Night. Farmers and workers at Geraldine are pulling together to carry out the extra food growing to be. given to patriotic uses, the wheat being for England, and the roots to relieve local distress.. About twenty workers at a meeting on Wednesday agreed to give labor on farm-i, or otherwise. MARINE INSURANCES. Wellington, Last Xight. A cable message has been received in Wellington that the companies' rate for war risks to and from the United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada jind the Atlantic have been reduced in London. 'Ordinary-marine insurance rates have been increased up to as high as 50 per cent, consequent on the removal of buoys and the extinguishing of lights on the coasts. COMMENDABLE GENEROSITY. , Christehnrch, Last Xight. The. directors of the New Zealand Shipping Co., Ltd., have decided on behalf ot that company to contribute £IOOO as follows:—£500 to the Empire Defence Fund, £250 to the Poor of Great Britain and Ireland Relief Fund, and £250. to the general Xew Zealand fund for the relief of troopers, comprising the contingent and tl.eir dependents. OX THE WEST COAST. Greymouth, Last Night. The West Coast Competitions Society at a meeting held to-:)ight, decided to hold the festival, as fixed, from September 21 to 2S. Splendid entries" have been received. It was decided to hand over the net profits to ths Patriotic Fund. NEW ZEALAND FORCES. THEIR DESTINATION UNCERTAIN. Although rumor has made free with tile destination of the First Expedition which left New Zealand at the end o last week, official reticence upon tho subject is still maintained (says the Dominion). i The Prime Minister stated on Tuesday evening that the date of the departure of the main expeditionary Fore had not vet been determined. It would depend largely, be said, upon the Imperial authorities. At n meeting of the Hawera Borough Council it was unanimously resolved: '•That this meeting requests his Worship the Mayor to enquire from the Defence .Minister whether it is the intention of the Department to accept the services of volunteers with previous Imperial service, or with previous active experience, for service at the front; ,>uid that in the event of a favorable reply being received, Hawera raise a contingent to serve as a nucleus of a New Zealand mounted regiment of trained men." Little Miss Ruth Swair.son took her pet lain!) to the gift sales at the Eeilding saleyards last Friday morning, 'and asked tlie crowd t"> "strike hard" for the Patriotic Fund. The little lamb passed on from buyer to buyer until it had brought £3O 5s tid, and then it was handed back to the patriotic little veaid. who had offered it as a sacrifice to her country. ' .Mr. V. -T. Leathern, licensee of the Elthiini Hotel, has offered to donate to the Eltham Patriotic Fund the whole of his takings of his hotel bar on Wednesday next, 2(ith inst. .which is sale day. He wishes the, amount to be applied by the committee for the benefit of any injured men from Eltham or district, or the dependents of any injured or killed. We (the Argus) congratulate Mr. Leathern en his oll'er, and remind patrons of the hotel on that day that they will be quite at liberty to increase the ordinary price of drinks at their own discr; Hon. A iPrcss message states that the Pleasant Point Presbyterians-decided to permit the Rev. <'!. King to go as cliapluin. and the Presbytery has approved.