LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 17 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Auckland Church Gazette announces that an anonymous donor has given £IOOO for a New Zealand army kitchen car, "that, being considered the best way the family of a fallen soldier could think of to help our boys at the front." Referring to the arrival of parcels from New Zealand, a soldier in France said he was surprised that tins of condensed milk were sent, as it could be easily obtained from aibout Is 3d to Is Rd. He states, however, that tinned fruit is very dear, but does not appear to Ibe often sent, although it would not weigh much more than condensed milk. A Hastings business man, who formerly resided at Feilding, says the Tribune, received a pleasant surprise the other morning. On opening a registered letter he found the contents contained £IOO, made up of a £SO, two £2o's, and a £lO note. On a piece of paper was written the words "Conscience money." There was no indication whatever of the sender. A dramatic and musical entertainment will be given in the Good T»mplar Hall on Wednesday, June 20, at S p.m., in aid of St. Mary's Day, at the Red Cross Mart. Come and see the correct wav to oleai windows. Admission 2a.

There was slaughtered for local con-., sumption in New Plymouth last month: —134 cows, '2O bullocks, 15 calves, -169 sheep, 19 lambs, 144 pigs; tripos cleaned, 147. Tli ■cc cows and, one pig were condemned. Fees, etc., for the month •mounted to £l4l 19s 3d, an increase of 18s sd. In i. lecture on root crop growing, at the Clood Templar Hall on Friday afternoon, Mr. J. W. Deem urgently recommended that for mangel growing, as kainit is not available, 3 cwt to 4 cwt of salt per aero should be used- At the Stratford Model Farm during the past season the use of 4 cwt of salt, costina 9s, had resulted in an increased yield of 13 tons 9cwt per acre. It is worthy of note that, Jfr. F. A. James, Gover Street, the well-known breeder and prize-taker in the American Leghorn section, wa3 at last week's show a successful prize-winner. This year's bird is from the same strain as last year's gold medal winner. At the late show Mr. James' birds came in for mud comment, his cook bird taking second, prize, and, in the hen section-first and gold nedal and reserve champion and second prizes were awarded, the ex-.' hibitor's hen bird being only just beaten for the cup by a silver Wyandotte, a fine bird owned by Mr. W. Hall. Germany, until the war broke out, said the Hon. G. W. Russell, in an address :it Auckland the other day, was rapidly increasing her imports from the Dominion. In 1914 they amounted to nearly half a million, chiefly in wool, kauri gum, and scheelite. He had nothing good to say about Germany and her methods, 'but her wonderful organisation was demonstrated, in the fact that the year before the war >broke out she purchased one-third of the entire output of our scheelite mines to make ammunition with which to fight our Empire. A meeting of the Western Park Board was held on Friday night. The request of the West End School for conditional use of the ground for footiball, and Miss Stanford's request for the use of Reserve T for her pupils for exercise, were granted. It was resolved to have the western portion of the ground cleaned and marcrocargas trimmed, also a piece of ground attached for the purpose of nursery for suitable trees for planting out. Satisfaction was expressed ait the small cost of the work carried out at the Morley Street entrance. Accounts amounting To £lB 15s lid wer passed for payment. The Daily Chronicle refers to the manysidedness of Great Britain's contribution to the war. The paper mentions that Great Britain is clothing the American troops in France, and providing most of their armament, except artillery. Great Britain to December 1, 1917, advanced £1,186,000,000 to the allies, and £175,000,000 to the Dominions. She transports a daily average of 7000 men and 30,000 tons of military supplies to France. Her navy and merchantmen to the end of August, 1917, transported and nrotected across the sea 13,000,000 men, with the loss of only 3C The scale of the navy's work is too little appreciated. For instance, the Royal Dockyards since the beginning of the war liavc made 31,470 repairs to warships, exclusive of the repair of allied ships. Hero is a thrilling story (extracted from a private letter received in Hawera) of an incident in the* fight put up I'y a British artillery company during the German attack on the West front. After describing the suddenness of the attack and onslaught, the writer says:—"The major was wounded, and was carried away by one of the men just before the Hun swept down. Bit two of the guns were,, detached from the main position,and these Ellis (a personal friend and fellow-officer of the narrator) commanded. He went on firing into the midst of the oncoming Huns until his range was 250 yards, and men had to crouch to avoid the splinters of their own shells. However, he held them up, and then a few infantry were rallied to the sound of the guns, and a great stand was made—Ellis walking ug and down behind the two guns, with the Huns sniping from aibouit 400 yards, shouting to his gunners the ranges, telling them this was the day of their lives, tli.it up till to-day they had been useless blots on the earth, and now they were really doing a jofb of work. For hours this went on, till the last shot was fireij and the Hun waa bo thoroughly frightened that he allowed Ellis to take away the locks of the guns.—Star. An unusual story of a sixteen-year-old lad's war service was told to the Military Service Board at Auckland the other day, when Private Joseph Clark, of Grafton Road, asked for leave until he became of military age. He would not reach his twentieth birthday until October of next year. He had enlisted at the age of sixteen, leaving with the Fourteenth Reinforcements, and' had seeu thirteen months' service in France. His father and uncle had also been on active service, and while his father was in hospital in England the son had gone across on furlough. The authorities had then been informed that he was under age, and he hod subsequently been sent back to New Zealand on duty. The father and uncle had also returned, and been discharged as unfit for further service. The mother was suffering from heart trouble, and the aplication was being made on her account, and because appellant wanted an opportunity to learn to earn his living. When (he had enlisted he had just started work as an office iboy. Even if he were sent back to England, said appellant, he would not be sent back to the front until he was twenty years of age. The board deeided to grant leave until appellant's nineteenth birthday, in October, when the application might (be renewed. DR. SHELDON'S NEW DISCOVERS THE MOTHER'S REMEDY. Night or Day, Mother is on the job. She must keep her husband, herself, and the children well and happy. 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