LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 June 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

lue recruits who left Kltham yesterday were: Privates J. U. Cately, W K Chapman, 0. W. Cook, K. Phillips, W. c! Uill, and J. Ainsworth (Auckland). Privates J. J..Walsh and L. Wisnewski entrained at Stratford. Private G. D. Parsons' departure has been postponed until Monday, and Private J. Madden has been granted leave until September. I regret to say there is a very poor outlook for the teaching profession. It is going to be a dying profession unless something is done to induce boys and girls to join. We will not attain that position among the nations to which we aspire until we make education our leading industry," remarked Hon. ,1. A. Hanan, Minister of E4»ioatioi), at Palmerston North. Should all the C class men succeed in meeting the requirements of the medical examining officers, ttwrc will be some serious dislocations in business houses and professional firms in New Plymouth. livery man that is called up now makes a great deal of dih'erence in the carrying on of businesses and practices, for already the staffs are considerably thinned. It is probable that if the latest recruits called up pass, many of the buK«css.'s, etc., will have to close down. Madame Petrova, in lier latest productior., "The Silence Sellers," is as clever and beautiful as ever, and as a lesson of "life," the picture should be welcome. Showing to-night «i <

Sir James Allen announces that a magisterial inquiry will he held at once unto the allegations of cruelty at Wanganui Detention Barracks. Mr. Hewitt, S.M., will eondnct the inquiry, which will be private.—Press Assoc. The reduction in the number of diphtheria eases at the New Plymouth Hospital was the subject of favoralble comment at yesterday's meeting of the hoard, the chairman remarking that at present there were only 13 cases in the isolation wards. The half yearly meeting ci ..ie Tara-no-'ki branch of the New Zealand Soi ciety of Civil Engineers was held at I'atea the other day. Papers on "Road Maintenance" and local works were given and visits made to local works under construction. The total amount spent during May in the purchase of War Loan certificates was £101,996 Ss, the New I'lyraout'u postal district contributing ££1437 9s. Christchurch led with £35,392 Cg, and Westport was lowest with £216 &. The total sales of War Loan certificates since the issue of the recent loan of £9,500,000 liave„been £959,1103, and the total sales since certificates were first n 3,807,939. IfcdJS .pißtrted that huias have put in an ap-. L &'e on the shores of the lake near i'e Kinga within the last -week or two (say s a correspondent to the Grey Star). A number of these rare birds have been see n on several occasions by local residents. As this bird is now becoming very rare, and promises in a short time to become ertinct, .it is to (be hoped that those.few will not fall victims to" the guns of tho so-called sports. It is reported that a farmer under the mountain, not far from Awatuna, has already had ten enquiries to take in grazing for the winter, ranging from ten to fifty cows. Some of this mountain land is proving better summer and winter country than a good many ever expected All the year round feed Is abundant, and frosts and dry seasons, are a, rarity. Evidently the shelter of the Mountain Reserve is a valuable asset, and some day this land may be very remunerative.—Star.

At a meeting of the New Plymouth branch of the W.C.T.U., it waa decided to offer assistance to the Mayoress in trfe matter of the afternoon teas at the Soldiers' Club. The card's for collecting funds for the Y-MC.A., similar to last year's effort, were received. Members were asked to keep Eed Cross Day, on August 2i, at the Mart, steadily in view, and make it a big success. Letters of condolence were sent to Mrs. A. H. Ambury, Mr. and Mrs. A. Amlbury, and to Miss Amtmry, also to Mr. and Mrs. Percy White and Mrs. Conrad. 'Manaia district lias subscribed less money to the fund for the assistance of returned soldiers than any other place in Taranaki," was the remark made by Mr. Stevenson at the monthly meeting of the Manaia Patriotic Committee on Wednesday evening. And he added that while this was the case more money had been granted to Manaia district than to any other place. The actual amount contributed was £II,BOO during a period of nearly four years. The speaker added that His intention was not to belittle Manaia's effort in any way but merely to remind the people that, compared with other districts, they had much lee-way to make up, and should do something worth while in the appeal that was about to be made to them.—Witness.

In the course of a letter to her mother in Hawera, Sister Bessie Young writes thus of a great service she attended: "We went to the memorial service for the sisters and nurses who had died on active service. Admission was by ticket, and in that vast and beautiful building 45,000 nurses congregated. Rapresentativcs from each unit—Regular Army •Sisters, Territorial Sisters, Queen Alexandra Reserves, VA.D.'s, Australian, Now Zealand and Canadian Sistera and Nurses—were there. The Royal family was well represented, and the Lord Mayor and many high officials were also present. The Coldstream Guards' Band and the Cathedral organ supplied the instrumental music, and at the close of tho service played the "Dead March in Saul," and never have I heard that thrilling composition so> 'beautifully played. In the stillness which followed a ibugler sounded "The Last Post," and so ended a beautiful and impressive service."

In his last mail letter, the London correspondent of tho Wellington Post wrote:—'There is a school of worldwide repute situate on the north-west coast of England, where scholars have recently been provided with a novel occupation. But joy had been mingled with sorrow—joy at the excitement of it all, sorrow at the condition of their harvest. A certain New Zealand liner went down—torpedoed—not so many miles away, arid she must have been full of good things for the ''hoys.' Numerous were the parcels rescued from the sea by the girls, many in a state of ertreme dilapidation—contents, doubtless, quite ruined. Others, manifestly (packed in tins, were outwardly in a sorry state, but one may have hopes that the stout container has saved the contents from being completely spoiled. Large parcels, seemingly containing cakes; smaller parcels whose contents were loose—sugar, for sure. And goodness knoW3 what more. The sequel to the rescue was usually tho problem, but with it the schoolgirls had no Their responsibility was over when tho parcels ivcre given to the care of the postal officials, and it, was these latter who liad to do their best to d«ciphcr the usually nearly illegible addresses, consisting by this time of a stream of purple ink. After a time the sea gave up all the parcels it intended to part with, and the girls were left witihont excitement. Now the sea is taking a fiendish delight in casting up wholesale tarcases of dead rabbits. Needless to •say, there is no attempt at salvage,!" A torn one-dollar bill and its tjysterious reappearance pave the way to solve the problem which confronts the hero of "I Will Repay," the Vitagraph picof one of 0. iHloury'g famous stories showing to-night at Everybody's. Ladies will he interested to learn that Chere will shortly be another rise in the cost of all silk and crepe do dune blouses consequent on recent heavy ad* yances on raw silk in Japan. This fact is mentioned in order that customers may take fuE advantage of the Melbourne, Limited's, famous 'blouses now nelling at 17s Sd for white silk and 26s for crepe do chine. Don't worry—get a North British Hot Water Bottle and sleep the sleep of angular tins at Is 6d and 3s. Obtatathe just. Its well vulcanised seams «pell satorfadion.