The Daily News MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1914.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 92, 14 September 1914, Page 4

The Daily News MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1914.

A very irMructive address was given to tlie Brotherhood yesterday afternoon by (Mr. J, IF. Arnold, ou tlie industrial question. The pice of bread is raised in Now Plymouth to-day to 4iEd \>ei 21b loai for cash, and od booked. "Hie rise is in consequence of the increased price of flour and lother i-equisitcs. Tiw directors of the Jitham Co-oper-ative Dairy Company, at si meeting on Thursday, decided to dispose of this soft-son's output of «hcesc by open consignment, through. Messrs Clements and 00. I Inspector Hug? will ma.kc tbe annual ■inspection of tlie Joeal Jirc brigades this I weeik. The Now j lymouth brigade will be inspected to-morrow, and the I'itzroy brigade on Wednesday. On account of these inspections, there will be no military drill for Uie firemen this eveu-

During August there were slaughtered at the liorough Abattoirs for local consumption It!) cows, 51 'bullocks, 1 calf, fi-tti sheep and 73 pigs. The number of tripes cleaned was 194. There were eondisnined •') cows, 2 bullocks, and .'1 pigs. l'o r export there were slaughtered 31) cows and 8 bulls, an increase of 45 cattle, but 21 cows wen; condemned. The income for tbe month amounted to £l3l 13s (id, an increase of £27 Us 3d. Wicubl tbe Belgians .make good immigrants for New Zealand? The question was raised at the meeting of the Canterbury Fanners' Union executive by Mr lit. \V. Leadley, who brought; forward ft suggestion that part of the money subscribed for patriotic purposes should be .used to assist the immigration of colonists from congested Kuropean countries, 'there were seven and a half million people in Belgium, which was about the size of Canterbury. The best relief for them would be to assist them to si country where tncy would liave a future. If they could bring out five hundred girls or widows they wv.-uld be doing a good thing for the farmers' wives of New Zealand. This matter will be discussed at next meeting. A meeting of the Ladies' Patriotic Committee was held V>n Wednesday afternoon, when a balance-sheet was presented toiiioh i-i'.iowed that donaltioiK from/ all sources amounted to £llO 18s lOd. Of the aiiuunt BH lis !>d was spent in material, etc., and the balance £IS lis Id, deposited in tlio Savings Lank. A copy of the balance-sheet may bo seen at this office. A motion to have the balance of the money in the lank till more .garments are needed was i carried unanimously. Tbe following is 'a list of garments, etc., providcd:23s I'airs of sox, l'dli handkerchiefs, 2.30 belts, 253 Balaclavas, 122 hold-alls containing knife, fork, spoon, with brush and paste, shaving inish and soa-p, bootlaces and triangular bandages, 122 housewives, containing needle, tihread. safety buttons, etc., 121) shirts, 7 underphirts, 1 nightshirt, 54. pipes, 54 plugs tobacco, 3 knitted scarves, 22!b* of tokicco.

As to the shooting of the various armies (says an ex.cha.ngi-), though tin-. British army shooting may looii pocr besido tlit- target shooters' score, these people being provided with every apparatus for assisting their shooting, any selected position,*and a target which does not -retaliate, and not being fatigued by inarching and having to carry a heavy pack, it will presently be found that the ISritish Army can shoot a good deal better than a. Continental army. This was indicated by the. re--suits of the various shooting matches held to amuse the international troops in Xorth China after the Boxer rising. 'Also once the British soldier got used to the conditions of South Africa lie could account for the Boer. At the 'battle-of Driefontainc a British brigade of four battalions attacked from the open a strong Boer force wefnlly entienehed on selected ridges, turned tue enemy out pretty quickly by effective rifle fire, and twice as many dead Boers were found on the ground as the British lost, and some may have been carried away. To talk in a superior way of 'the bad shooting «.-f the Army is merely to show one's ignorance of shooting. under battle condition*,