LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taranaki Daily News, 19 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A number of directors of TaranakLt dairy factories left % the mail train.I yesterday morning to attend &e annual - ! conference of the National -.Dairy Asso-*, ciation, which opens st Paiinerstoir. North this morning. The names of the -Iballofcted men in. "Class C (men with two children) were published in a special Gazette last evening, and those in the Taranaii military district appear elsewhere in this issue, together with the names of those <*f the First Division who have recently come of age and of Class-A of the -Second Di ; vision. At a meeting of the Taranaki lacensed Victuallers' Association yesterday, the following resolution was unanimously passed:—-"That this meeting of the Turanalci licensed Victuallers' Association most emphatically resent the published general statements of Captain Hawkins, made at a prohibition lecture under the auspices, °f the . W-C.T.U., as deliberately false and misleading, ami challenge him to prove, under a penalty of £IOO, to Jbe handed over to the Red Cross Fund, that any statement published prior to an election by fchis-asao-. •ciation is contrary to fact." The first annual meeting of the- New Plymouth Methodist Women's Missionary Auxiliary was held yesterday afternoon m the Whiteley Hall. There was a large attendance, over which the Rev." W. A. Sinclair presided. Reports of the past year's work were read. An interesting address on missionary work was given iby the Rev. H. L. Richards. The election of officers resulted:—President, Mrs. W. A. Sinclair; vice-presidents, Mesdames W- Amlbury, Rundle, and Fischer; secretary, Mrs. J. T. Griffin; treasurer, Mrs <5. H. White; committee, Mesdames Loveridge and Richards and Miss Hodder- A short musical pro- 1 Kfyamme was contributed by Mesdames Richards and Cooper and Miss Council. A Maori was on sentry at the Junction of two conrmynication trenches at Gallipoli. At dusk an Indian was walking along the trench, and the Maori mistook him for a Tuife, as the Indian was dressed not unlike a Turk, and had no mule or water-can. Hie Maori immediately brought hi s rifle down to the charge, and with his bayonet only a few inches off the Indian's body, began to dance round him, shouting the while j "Ah, de Turk—ah, de Turk!" Luckily, the Indian could speak a little English, and said: ''iNo! no! mister; me no Turk. Me Indian mirieman." The Maori immediately stoodJais against the side-of the trench, and affectionately patting the Indian on the back and shoulders, exclaimed: "Oh, tank you, mister—tarik you, very much. Iso glad I no got to kill you- Tank you." The employees of the New Plymouth Sash and Door Factory gathered in the manager's office yesterday afternoon for the purpose of saying good-bye and making a presentation to one of their number (Mr. H. G. J. Gardiner), who, upon attaining the age for military service, is going into camp with the draft of men leaving to-day. In malking the presentation of a fountain pen, Mr. W. G. Reid said that the future of the departing soldier's life would ibe largely what he made it himself. He urged him to keep before him for Jus ideal a lofty purpose and to pursue a path of truthfulness and rectitude. He assured him that the management wished ihim well, and looked forward to the time when they would have the pleasure of welcoming him home. Mr. W. Jenkin also said a few words. Cheers were given for Mr. Gardiner, who suitaibly replied.

A meeting of ratepayers of the Waitara West Board Board District was held at iLepperton yesterday for the pur-' pose of considering a proposal that the district should ibe merged into the County of Taranaki. Mr. H. B. Lemper presided, and explained that the position had been brought aJbomt by a number of ratepayers petitioning the council that a portiom of the western area of the district should foe merged into th.j county. The board and somo of the other ratepayers thought that if the test end of the district was to. I# "merged into the county the remaining portion would not he' able, except with very heavily increased rates, to carry on as a separate district, and it was suggested that the whole of the district should be merged into the county iat the same time. Mr. K- Ellis (cleric of the Taranaki County Council) attended, and gavo some information as to the result from previous mergers effected, and stated that none of the districts that had joined the county had expressed any wish to revert to the old order of things. Mr. Ellis answered a great many questions a g to the work done by the county and the procedure followed in regard to new road formation work. On the question being put to the vote, the proposal to merge the whole district into the county was carried by IS votes to 10. It was pointed out that it would still be necessary that a majority of the ratepayers should petition the county in favor of the merger, and a number of those present signed the petition whieh was ready for the purpose. Journalism ranks high among the professions, and its followers are, as a rule, clean, honorable men, but there are muck-rakers among them, and it ia against these that "The Silence Sellers," the latest Olga Petrova picture showing to-morrow at the Empire, is directed.

The Red Cross Mart will, next Saturday, bo in charge of the Red Cross Committee (C Section). The stock of jams aiul jellies at the Mart is now very low, and gifts of these and of marmalade would 'lie mosit acceptable. The need for funds for Red Cross work at the front is so urgent at this time that the help >of evcuy loyal citizen is asked, both in fumislSng iho Mart and in making purchases. In connneetion with St. Mary's Day ; at the Red Cross Mart on Saturday* June 29, there will Ibe a competition for the best-made and decorated sponge saad-wieh. All entries must be at the Mart by 0. a.m. on Saturday, 29th, and may, if wished, be left there on the previous afternoon or esening, the cafces, after being judged, to-<be sold inlaid of -the day's taJkinga. Two prizes \rfll be givea-of th& value of 6s and 4b,the winners to select goods to these amotmts 'at the Mart. The American Army in France is be-' ing supp&ed with high-powered nufflhfom for despatch riders- Two similar machines have just (been landed Iby J. JEL ■Bodfc, of EH©cam See ipartiMilais and 'list af seotmtHraad machines,-*® faofflt.Wheruyoufeel a 4oo>'twait ui£3 3t has gripped t»k e .IWEEGfV&t

A 1 stokehold craw was detained for the tPateena, -which legumes to-day.—Press' f Assoe- ' CaitSnet yesterday agreed to increase l ■the allowance to the guardian of the« ?nwtherlew ciriWrßn of a soldier to 3s per tis rate allowed-*®-a-aeMierfc wife* —'Ereaa-JUaoe, At the,Hawera Magistrate's Court an, Monday the charges of cattle-stealing "Were heard aganist Albert Charles Ogilrie. After evidence had been given for accused, Mr. CDea submitted that the case was a very weak one, and that there was hardly sufficient evidence to commit the recused for trial. The magistrate i said he would not comment as to whe-1 ther the case was a strong or weak one, but he thought there was a case to answer. Tha accused, who had nothing to say, pleaded not guilty, and was committed to the New Plymouth Supreme Court for trial. Bail was allowed, accused £IOO, and two sureties of £IOO ■each, or one good surety of £2OO. Bail was forthcoming. A aovel proposal for the-compulsory •settlement of industrial trouWes war made at a meeting of the Wellington.. Industrial .Association the other evening. A member said he thought the Government ought to take 12 representative workers, 10 employers,, and a few impartial students of industrialism and poll? tieal economy, look them up together and hold them einpannellecl until they had evolved satisfactory solutions for the pressing industrial and social problems of lie day. Thay should have definite questions sutaiitad to them, and should 'be detained like a jury in the old days, until they had reached agreement. The membe_r did not explain howthe doflfajcoa ttras reached were to be knposed upon the rest of the community without the u"se of"* a similar degree of coercion. fiamember the Red Cross entertain ment in the Good Templar Hall on Wednesday, June 28th, at « p.m. items by New Plymouth artists; two aaßusiag comedies, "Keleaeina a Man" and "The Burglar." The Melbourne, Limited, have aa unusually fine selection of men's and 'boy's gafoerdine raincoats in the famous Hyitrotite make. These ooats are actually being sold at less than to-day!» wholesale cost Prices, (boys' and youths', 23s fid to 39s 6d; men's giees, 69s 6d. Everybody, of course, hias heard of 0. Henry, the greatest storyteller of modern days, the tale-spinner whose wonderful work makes "The Arabian Nights" look like commonplace happenings. The first of the O. Henry stories to be produced in film form will be shown to-mor-row night at Everybody's.