LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 18 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Press Association message savs that the Hon. G. W. Russell stated vesterdav that the number of soldiers now in the mental hospitals of the Dominion is S The New Plymouth trustees of the National Efficiency Board! met vostcrdav morning, and discussed the cases of reservists in business, returned soldiers, n widow's allowance, and an application by a recently-discharged man for ass-st-ance in securing an appointment as ai, accountant.

At yesterday's meeting of the Marlior Board the harbormaster reported t';.r the harbor had been sounded on May (i and 7, the first opportunitv since 'v pale o n March 1!) and 20. The fairway channel had not shallowed, but siltation had taken place in the swinging basin, and the beach had extended outwards-

A returned soldier reached his home in Wellington at noon on Thursday Two hours later he received at the iov the cablegram he had despatched from hospital in England informing his re'tives that he was leaving for New 7,< land. The message had taken near!six weeks to reach its destination, ?,<• he had fosaten it home by a short hean

It is stated that a Postal and Telegraphic Commission will shortly announce very material restrictions, including shorter hours at all offices. According to Mr. C. A. Wilkinson, M.P., benzine, which lias been sold up to ;C2 per case, has never been bought from the wholesale men for more than £1 Hf. This state of affairs, Mr. Wilkinson declares, should not be allowed

At the fronts' Hall, Inglewood, last night, a. Roll of Honor was unveiled by the.Mayor (Mr. G. Young), whereon were the names oF 17 old boy Scouts, three of whom had been killed at ttic front, one wounded and returned, one had won the Military Medal, one had received the King of Serbia's gold medal, and one had been promoted to captain on the field. A feature of the ceremony was the excellent address delivered bv the Mayor.

Speaking at the Farmers' Union Conference on Thursday evening, Mr. E. Maxwell stated that as a member of the Efficiency Trustees he wished to publicly disassociate himself from the regrettable remarks that had been made by a member who was reported to have said: 'Tn reference to the man-power question, the 10.000 the Dominion could send would have the same effect on winning the war as throwing a bucket of water into the Patea River to raise the level so that the freezing works barges could come over the bar." lie considered such remarks not only regrettable, but disloyal.

The pretty Australian starfish lately joining the Triangle aquarium is how an enthusiastic American writer describes Enid Bennett, star of the brilliant racing drama. "They're Off," showing on Monday at the Empire. To-morrow the Citizens' Band will srive a patriotic recita: in Pukekura Park, the. collection to he devoted to the Women's Patriotic Committee for the Soldiers' Comforts Fund, which is reported to hs very low at present. The musical programme will be of the usual high standard, and includes two or three fresh items, including the intermezzo, "The Arab's Dream," by Trinkhurst; Morcoau's "Romance Japonaise," by Maurice Telma. also two new marches, entitled "Dallas" and "The Top-notcher." Included in the programme will be the hvmns "Jerusalem the Golden" and ChrvsaHom," both arranged by Mr. M'Leod. The band is desirous of making the result of this effort a sub■nantial one, and personal donations will be gladlv neknowledgcd by any of the band official?.

Two girls of ahout 17 yenrs of setappeared before Messrs H. R. Cattlerind J f'brlce. J.'sP., at Xew Plymouth yesterday, on a cnarge of vagrancv Fliev said thev had left their home it' Auekhnd last week on account of difl'e" dices with their parents. They got inf ■ touch with a young man belonging to the Kew Plymouth district, who gave them monev, and they reached here las' Friday. They went to the young man'' mother, who advi=ed thcTit to try and got situations The police stated that since last Saturday they had been sec "bout the streets till late at night, and if was found they bad no money, though thev had rented a room up till tonight. They were brought before the Court in their own interests. They were convicted on the charge of vagrancv and ordered to he put on board the Earawa and sent hack to Auckland. The police endeavored to get into touch with their parents, with a view to their meeting the girls, and also guaranteeine the boat fare. Failing their being nhle to do so, Messrs Cattley and Clarl-'-offered the passage money. The Auckland police were notified, and the local police received word last evening thn< the parents of the girls would meet them, the fare of one of them being guaranteed.

Speaking at the annual conference ol the Taranaki Farmers' Union at Hawera on Thursday evening, Mr. E. Maxwell said that he regretted that an unintentional omission in the report of his remarks at the conference of Efficiency Trustees in Stratford put the farmers in a wrong position. During a discussion on the question of exempting the last man in a business, he was reported to have said that the principle of leaving the last man on the farm had never been suggested. What he had said was that it had been mooted but had never been adopted by Military Service Boards. It was recognised earlier in the war that at least one man should be left on each farm, but that was done when it was considered that farmers would be doing greater service by producing as much as possible. The position now was considerably changed. Not only did the lack of shipping interfere with the transport of the produce, but the conditions at the front rendered it necessary that every fit man available should he sent, and if the authorities said that production was not so important as men. then all, whether farmers or business men, should loyally accept the position, no matter what sacrifice it might entail.

Madame Pctrova has written and produced a new picture play under the title of "Bridges Burned." This production will be shown locally at Everybody's on Tuesday and Wednesday next.

Property-sellers, there is a n inquiry for a dairy farm of 150 to 250 acres. See IS. A. Large's new advertisement on page 1.

Here are some Melbourne, Ltd., barstriped denims, 5s lid; dark tweed trousers, Ss lid; striped cotton tweed trousers, !)s Gd; dark imported tweed trousers, Os fid, lis Gd, 12s 6d, 14s 6d; colonial saddle-tweed trousers, lfis Gd I?s Gd, 19s Gd, 21s. The Rev. W. A. Sinclair will commence a short series of addreses to young people in Whiteley Church on Sunday evening. The subject of the first address will he "Our Amusements and Recreations," Special music will lie rendered by the choir, and Mrs. Wakelin will sing "So Near to the Kingdom." Young men and women will be cordially welcomed. (

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Crime in Germany, according to the Oierman press, is increasing at au alarming rate. One Berlin insurance firm reports that it averages 300 cases daily of burglary and housebreaking. Refugees from . outlying provinces anil men in uniform .appear to be the chief offenders. The police forces are mainly old men, who are easily overpowered.

"I should like to beg of mothers to let nothing induce them to lot their little girls take part in any entertainment when from the nature of the case the attractions of the performance are a consideration," stated Miss Pulling, headmistress of the Auckland Diocesan High School for Girls, in the course of her annual report, "The dances and recitations and dramatic situations in which it amuses grown-up people to see little children take part, are often terribly quick to destroy their simplicity and teach the beginnings of ■ self-con-sciousness and pertness. It involves the health, nerves, modesty, and charm of the girls. I know the heads of other Auckland schools feel with me, that we see the. beginnings of harm earlier than parents do, and that we are to blame if we do not sound the warning." Referring to the transfer of Von Luckner and Kirseheiss from Ripa Island to M'otuihi, a Christchurch paper states that late on Thursday afternoon the two German prisoners of war, accompanied by an Austrian internet., who has been acting as their orderly, were removed from Ripa Island in a launch, under an armed guard, with fixed bayonets. Tt was the first and only time that the prisoners had left the island from the day of their, interment on it. They were placed quietly on the ferry steamer Maori, and so closely guarded, they travelled up to Wellington. The armed escort was under Cap. tain C. Gray, Assistant Provost Marshall for the Wellington Military District, and Lieutenant J. H. Gilmour, Assistant Provost Marshall for the Canterbury Military District.

Mr W. G. K. Kenriek, S.M., (formerly of Hawera) stated at the Napier Mag, istrate's Court on Monday that at present there were five magistrates on leave for various reasons, and consequently the remaining magistrates were overworked. He himself had come to Napier at a few hours' notice. He considered that in these times of trouble people should try to settle their differences out of court. He was sure that it some people could see what was at present going on at the front they would think less of their own petty troubles.

'Professor Frederick Forster, of Munich, in a lecture in Vienna on the educational handling of the war, said:— "We must begin at once to prepare our children for the future co-operation of the nations. The most painful and the worst feature of the world-war is the flood of Hatred which drowns all the relations uniting the nations. It seems to me of the greatest importance to keep our children who have not to fight free from the brutalising effect of this' onesided judgment, of this wind-bag condemnations. I would draw on the blackboard, with chalk, a broken-down railway bridge as they are now blown up in war, and by its side I would show the engineers repairing such a bridge I would say to the children: 'That' is your task. In the future you must build up the bridges between the peoples' I think that, in. education, justice to the enemy ,s the greatest importance, and to teach the children to repeat no slander or unfair judgments of their opponents. In my family I would never alow nasty, unfair jokes. There is no better discipline than the exercise of falj Pay towards opponents. And do not glory m the war, or forget what it destroys ,n moral power-that it is a terrible blood-guilt, which has brought inexpressible suffering to the nations. Children should be encouraged to redeem the world's guilt and the human soul."—"Jus Suffragie." In the Uuited State, the war savins iund has passed the 100,000,000 dollar ( £20,000,000) mark, and is growin° a[ the rate of 700,000,000 dollars (£l4O--o 11 yean) B is Mtimated that 0,000,000 persons are now enlisted in the war savings army. It is hoped to raise this number to 40,000,000 of whom 10-000,000 000,000 may be school children. '