MOKAU AND WAITARA MATTERS.
LEGISLATION PROMISED.
By Wire.—Special to Daily News. Wellington, Last Night. The Minister of Marine agrees to all ■the proposals of the Mokau Harbor Board for clauses in the Washing-Up Bill, with the exception of the provisions to enable a loan to be raise® without a poll of the ratepayers, whiclf cannot be empowered. He informs Mr. Jennings that £750 has been placed on the estimates for expenditure on Mokau River improvements.
Matters in connection with improvements to the Waitara bridge, which was damaged by flood'last year, have received satisfactory consideration from the departments. The Minister of Public Works will provide half the money necessary out of the flood damage money, aiwl the State Advances Office will grant a loan of £ISOO. A clause will he in> sorted in the Washing-Up Bill, extending the time for the Waitara Harbor Board raising a loan for improvements until six months after the war.
The largest cheque ever passed through the New York Clearing House was paid in August, i It waa signed by Messrs J. I'. Morgan and Co., and amounted to £1.022,222,222. It was credited to the Minister for Finance and Receiver-Gen-eral of Canada.
Among the men who enlisted in Wellington recently was one who was quite a recent arrivai in the Dominion. Not only had he been in the country but -two days when he submitted himself for ■examination, but he wanted to be sent to camp right away. "What is enabling Germany to hold out at the present time?" asked Mr. Alexander M'Taggart, scientific chemist, * eraroa Training Farm, in appealing before the Third Military Service Board the other day. "Merely scientific knowledge of agriculture and the application of that knowledge." A reservist who appeared before the Military Service Board at Hamilton -stated that he and his wife milked 10!) cows between them. He added that, although his wife met with a severe accident breaking a rib and a bone in her ■wrist, she was in the milking shed at four o'clock the next morning, and did her share of the milking. The brewing trade in Britain an extensive one and represents an enormous amount ot capital. There are financially interested in the trade eight,, 'dukes, seven marquises. 52 earls, IS viscounts. 77 lords. BSS knights,- over 1000 military and naval officers, and more than 1200 clergymen, in addition to the very large number of private business people. 'Perhaps an old admiral of Germany is not so far wrong, who now asks in. dignantly, "When in all its history did Germany or Prussia show the slightest concern for liberty, justice, or any of the things that make up the good government and happiness of nations ? When has either said \m honest, unselfish word or struck a manly blow in the cause of small nations, of the weak against, the strong, or in defence of the doctrine of right against force? Mr. Miles M.L.C., Western Australia, who has been on a visit to' Darwin (Northern Territory), states in an Australian paper that money is flowing like water in that locality. Messrs Vestey Bros, are paying extraordinary high rates of wages to butchers and slaughtermen. Some of the men are getting from .630 to £4O a fortnight, including overtime. Boys are earning from .£1(1 to £lB a month. There are, lie says, twenty inotor-cars plying for hire at Darwin, the earnings of each averaging over £SO a week, which makes the cost of motor hire for the town about £1 per head of the population per week.
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Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1917, Page 4
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645MOKAU AND WAITARA MATTERS. Taranaki Daily News, 24 October 1917, Page 4
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