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LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Minister of Defence has received a cable, stating that the 33rd Reinforcements had reached a port of call, and were in excellent health and spirits.— Press Association.

Mr. Massey stated yesterday that a special meeting of the Cabinet would bo held in the near future to decide who Will represent New Zealand at the Imperial War Cabinet this year. Jt is improbable that the meeting will take place this week.—Press Association. The downfall of rain last night would be of incalculable benefit to the dairying industry of Taranaki, as the pastures, especially close to the seacoast, which had freshened up as the result of the rains of a few weeks back, were beginning to get very dry again, and were causing the milk yield to fall rapidly. Out of 1771 candidates who presented themselves for the matriculation examination of the New Zealand University at the end of last year, 611 are recorded as passed, 108 having completed partial passes previously obtained, and 232 havo qualified for a partial pass.

There are some fine crops of both turnips and swedes to be seen throughout Tarahaki, this year, and especially along the coastal district towards Opunake. The warm weather, with occasional mild showers, has proved ideal for these crops, though in some instances the luxuriant growth during the past few weeks has had the effect of causing the white turnips to rot.

On Saturday, says\lie Argus, there was railed from Eltham to the Fanners' Cooperative meat works at Smart road about fifteen truck-loads of sheep and lambs of as fine a quality as one could wish to see. They were all bred on farms about the district, and did credit to the breeders, who evidently know how to produce just the right sheep to suit tbe requirements of the freezing works. With the sheep there were also despatched several truck-loads of iine, fat cows.

The Opunake Seaside Improvement Committee has spared no pains to ensure the success of the annual fete, which is to be held on the Opunake beach, in aid of the fund for further improving the beach as a pleasure resort. In addition to the sports, side-shows, sea-bathing, etc., Which have been such a feature of previous fetes, other attractions are promised, including the popular treasure hunt, which created such a furore at Ngarnotu beach functions, and for which prizes of considerable value have been provided.

The motorist who does the round-the-mountain trip is puzzled as to the principles followed in levying toll charges. The Stony River toll-gate, serving the worst mam road (expept via Stratford) in Taranaki, charges ss. Hawera imposes 2s for roads that are almost perfect, and Eltham Is Cd for roads that are as near perfection as roads can be. Evidently the worse the road the higher the toll. Stratford charges 2s ltd for permitting the unlucky motorist to bump over roads that resemble for the most part the shell-pitted country of Belgium and Northern France.

The beautiful Harrison-Fisher girl, Miss Olive Thomas, is the feature attraction at the Empire to-night Her graceful acting lifts the play, "An Even Break," in which she appears, far, far above the usual. It is a delightful story of cabarets and singers, and of the gay life with which the denizens of so many big cities while awav their time. Some quaint new fashion forms are not the least interesting of all the novelty elements in this masterpiece.

There is only one SANDER EXTRACT, and that is why the people reject the many inferior and harmful substitutes and just as goods. SANDER'S EXTRACT is free from the objectionable qualities of the common eucalyptus. Sander's Extract cures all infectious diseases, all winter ailments, ulcers, burns, sprains, eczema, etc. Insist on the I Ora*CINE SANDER'S EXTRACT.

Several \milies ,in Masterton are reported to be "voluntarily rationing themselves.

A Carterton young man was rejected for military service on account of his j.roportions. He tiinw the .scale at 22 s'lone!

A sign ol the times. The Woodville Chumbei* oi Commerce lias agreed to a l*dv attending meetings to represent her ius'uand during his absence.

A Berne cable of 13th January, states that Germany is worm-eaten by secret societies, v.-hich are spreading- anti-mili-tarist reports and chapters from prohibited books describing the origin ,of the war. and t'he atrocities that) have been carried out by the authority of officials.

The honor of Membership of the Order of the British Empire Ims been awarded to Mrs Amy Pomeroy for the remarkable courage and self-devotion shown by her in helping Iter husband to invent a bullet which lias-., it claimed, put an end to the Zpppeli'i menace. Mrs .Pomerov is 21) years of age, and though she" is ' the mUlicr o: four children, she risked her liti all day long and all night lone;.

A South Canterbury farmer who has fourteen cbil3rei>. was called in the ballot for married men without children, and though he got) the member for Timaru to vouch for the fact tha.<i he had fmirteen children, the Defence authoritier. would not accept the evidence. The reservist had to appeal before the Board, in Timaru on Monday, when he was required to produce the birth certificate of each child. The war work of Canadians in Brila'.n and France was referred to in Auckland the other day by Mr J. T. Lithgow, a letired Canadian • trade commissioner. "The forests of Britain are being largely utilised for war purposes," said Mr Lithgow, "and the men employed in witting the timber are mostly Canadian lumber men, than whom no workers more skilled could be fqfind .anywhere in the world. The long railways of Canada have produced a small army of skilled workers and official?, and thousands of these men are now employed in railway construction behind the lines in France, doing very valuable service." Whether the exjtra brigade .formed from accumulated reinforcement.? has yet been disbanded in Franco is not known here, but reports to ■ hand recently show that its formation has been of t.lio utmost value in giving relief to the other brigades under the Sf.iw Zenj land command. It has enabled ! sands of our men to get good fu.''uigiin England, and has also given >r gnde eomnißmUrs much needed relief. The rfisuit h tint, to use the words of a recent opinion of OJt officer at the front, the Now Zeolni'd division is one of ; v .<? freskest in Fnuk*. 1

Commenting in November on _ Hie shortage of paper, a London trails jouruiO said :—Owlnp to the paper shortage no ir,or- fo-ifeesp paper wi'l he issuer for official corrcspomlence. Quarto and oft:;io rizes will take its place. . •

Vi'e venturo to predict tliat if the war is Still going on in six months' time there will not only be further reductions in sizes of all publications, but that sc-rions consideration will have to he. given to further increases in price. K the paper shortage continue* prominent, wholesalers forecast, that the publications to go first, will he the cheaper novels, then periodicals and luxurious papers, and last, trade papers and. newspapers should continuance of publication become impossible.

Dr. Morrison, the groat Chinese authority, now in New Zealand, was entertained recently'-by the Dunedin Expansion League, the president of which is Mr. Bathgate. In the course of his speech, Dr. Morrison said be was glad to have the opportunity of acknowledging tlie obligation ho was uuder to the president's late brother, Mr. John Bathgate, who in 189 A had showr. him the greatest kindnew when, after Ms walk across China, he arrived with resources exhausted, little money, few clothes, and stricken with intermittent fever. Mr. John Bathgate had provided nurses, doctors, and funds, and had enabled 'him to return to the Old Country by securing for him a position as surgeon cm a Home-going steamer

Some interesting facts concerning British influence in China were given by Dr. Morrison at the "Now Zealand Club recently. The Chinese Customs Department, lie said, was carried on tinder &u English Inspector-General, and of the IMS foreign employees in the Customs more than half were British. Speaking of the opportunities for trade expansion, lie said that Britain had an admirable service in China. The British Minister had an unusual knowledge of China and its conditions, and there was a British Consular office which had been constantly functioning in China for eighty years, and had faithfully served 'British' traders throughout those, years, and so high tvas the standing of the men in this service in tiie eyes of the people of China, that in the whole eighty years there never had bees a case, so far as he had beard, in which any doubt had ever been east 011 their honor or integrity. There are occasionally paragraphs in the newspapers allowing that there are people ready and anxious to take advantage of those who through being called up for active service have to close or sell up their bjisinossen at short notice. We have not seen anv mention of transactions showing a brighter side of such positions, lmt we have a great deal of pleasure in giving publicity to Messrs Pink and Hall's account, of the sale of their business (says the Carterton News). Both partners were called up for military service. One was rejected, but the other passed fit and ordered into camp, and it was necessary to dispose of the business they had industriously built up. Amongst others approached was the W.F.C.A., and Messrs Caselberg, directors of the association, negotiated for the purchase. They agreed to take the whole stock at invoice [•rices and the plant at valuation. They asked the owners to put their valuation on the various items of the plant, and when all were enumerated one of the buyers made a little speech. Said he: "Now, look here; in this time when war inflicts hardship, it's up to men to stand hv each other and not to take advantage. You have put a great deal too low a value on several of the items because you urgently want to realise upon them. We are not out to take advantage of that. We will give you the full market price for the whole lot." And they did, leaving two astonished and extremely gratified partners to congratulate themselves upon having struck a genuine vein of patriotism when least expected in a business deal.

Try Hayward's FLAG BRAND PICKfiES fbr flagging appetites—the condiment of the period. Pure, fresh, economical. Ask your grocer.

Smokers who like to keep their teeth clean and white should use OZO TOOTH POWDER. It is the ideal tooth powder. Sold everywhere 6d per tin. arncen.

.It is not generally known that the Wanganui Harbor lioaril possesses the first locomotive of its kind built in New Zealand. If lias been in constant use. and is now in need,, of repair Discussing this matter at the lust meeing of the Board, a member said the engine "iKould be placed in the mfisoum."

The opinion was expressed to the Appeal Board at Palmerston North by Captain Wallcer, military representative, that the time would come -when pepple would be compelled by legislation to undertake essential work in eases where they were engaged in non-essential industrie*.

It was stated before the Military Service Board at Wellington that two thousand employees of the Post and Telegraph Department had gone to the front The Department was not necessarily appealing for men according to seniority, but was asking exemption for those employees whose retention in the service would enable the-largest number of men to be released for the front.

A unique excuse for evading military service was proffered bv Charles Edward garden, who was tried at Christehurch by court-martial on Tuesday for disobedience of -an order to attend medical examination, his plea being that lie was by law exempt from rendering personal service because his family in Scotland was paying feu duty Warden was thus going back over centuries to the days of the feudal system for his plea, fiie duty, according to Scots law, being the duty or annual rent paid by the tenant of a feu, or a grant of land, for which the tenant pays money to his overlord instead of rendering personal military service.

"The net revenue that Germany gained from its State Forestry Department in the years just preceding the war was £10,000,000 a year," stated Mr, 'TV. Jones (Christchurch), at the Nurserymen's Assoeiation's Conference after a paper on "Afforestation" by Mr. W. Wickens, head gardener for the Christchurch City Council, had been read by Mr. B. Nairn (Christchurch). The statement appeared to surprise some members, but Mr. Jones said his information was . accurate. He also mentioned that during 1912 no fewer than four million people were engaged in the timber .industry of Germany. "I am given to understand," said a Now Zealand Times representative to the Prime Minister on Wednesday, "that the shipment of Australian wheat recently landed at Auckland is affected by weevil." "Some of the second-class wheat, imported 'by traders and others for fowl wheat, was found to be rather hadlv infected with weevil," replied Mr. Massey, "and precautions have been taken to prevent any more of the same sort being landed. In the case of milled wheat, however, an officer of the New Zealand Government is'kept in Australia, whose business it is to examine very closely all the wheat that is shipped to this country for food purposes; and, though H is impossible tn say that weevils cannot possibly come here, the evil has certainly been reduced to a minimum." An accident of a rather sensational nature occurred at the Korito river bridge, Kent road, last week, Mr. A. Wheatly (Lepperton), R. Bell and C. Ansford were proceeding along the road when they overtook some sheep. The speed of the car was reduced to a crawling pace when near the bridge, when two sheep suddenly jumped forward. On the bridge the ear cannoned into the railing, and this collapsing, the car took a header into the river—a drop of twenty feet. Messrs Bell and Ansford managed to get clear of the car, but Mr. Wheat-ley was in the car when it struck the bottom. By some means he curled up under the car, which was turned upside down. ForInnately the river was low. His comrades quite expected a fatality, but on lifting the car they found Mr. Wheatley still smoking a pipe, imperturbably, and practically uninjured, although a bit dazed. Mr. Ansford had a rib broken and several bruises on the buttock. The ear, naturally. showed signs of contact with the bridge, bank and river.

Some very attractive new lines ia men's and boys' suits have opened out at tho Melbourne Ltd. Men's suits include exclusive designs in the latest dark grey check worsteds, also dark grey llamas and indigo serges, pricos U9/6, 79/6 and 85/-. Boys' suits comprise new tweeds from Pet on a Eoslyn and Kaiapoi mills, size 7 25/0, to oilil2 31/- Also krg«r si*ee.

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Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 4

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LOCAL AND GENERAL Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL Taranaki Daily News, 29 January 1918, Page 4

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