RESTRICTED TRAIN SERVICE.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1919, Page 4

RESTRICTED TRAIN SERVICE.

. . WARNING TO PARENTS OP BOARDERS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, Last Night. Parents of children in private boarding schools have been notified by the principals that the railways will not carry children home at holiday time.

British industries supplying material for public works in New Zealand, Mr. Masaey stated at Auckland, were returning to their normal functions after having devoted practically all their energy and resourcos to the production of munitions. Some time must elapse, however, before they would be producing anything like their pre-war output. In fact, it would be two years, in his opinion, before they were producing on the same scale and at the same rate as before the war. This applied to practically all industries to which we werfc accustomed to look for our supplies for the purposes mentioned. Although Whangarei has the deepest harbor in. New Zealand, an annual volume of shipping aggregating 395,665 tons, the board's receipts amount to only £2547 for a year, and it has never borrowed a penny piece to provide the other places have willingly spent such large sums ty> obtain. Doe's it look as if the leaven of progress had been working amongst our public menf Assuredly not, says the local paper.

Whether the potency of the' magical number 13 for good luck or misfortune is endorsed by the following circumstances, each, believer in the witchery of numbers wil be able to decide for himself. In the course pi the ballot for the sections in three soldier settlements by the Auckland Land Board recently, the applicant 'number thirteen drew the second or third place no fewer than twelve times in the course of the ballot. On the. thirteenth occasion number 13 was Successful. Singularly enough the number of the section was 13.

Every wage-earner and every householder who is not wealthy enough to be indifferent knows only too well that the cost of living in this country is steadily rising (says tho Lyttelton Times). Profiteering is rampant. We have recently unearthed a number of cases in Christchurch in regard to coal—cases so flagrant that honest dealers who were spoKen to on the subject condemned the Unscrupulous ones in the plainest terms; cases go flagrant, too, that the wholesale dealers, for the credit of tho trade, were compelled to take drastic steps which should have been taken by the statutory authority set up under the Cost of Living Act, 1910, namely, the Board of Trade.

There was a large attendance of settlers at the Hillsborough Hall on Tuesday night, when a farewell social and dance was tendered to Mr. and Mrs. L. Bishop who, after a lengthy residence, were leaving the district for the north. Dancing and cards afforded entertainment for those present, Messrs E. C. Stanley and J, Sampson acting a* M.C.'s, the music being provided by the Misses 0. Giddy, H. Bishop, Marsh, and E. Bennett, The card playing was under the direction of Mr. L. Marsh, and the following were the prizewinners: Ladies' first 251b flour, Mrs. G. Barribal, second 21b tea, Mrs. Connett, after playing off with Mrs. Noble Hill and Miss Connett; men's first, 251b flour, Mr. C. Greenway, second, 21b. tea, Mr. E. Cole. During the Bupper interval, Mr. H.' CI Sampson, chairman of the Hall Committee, made suitable reference to the splendid services rendered by both Mr. and Mrs. Bishop as settlers in the district, and expressed the general regret felt at their removal. On behalf of tho district he presented the guests with a handsome marble clock Those present sang: "For They Are Jolly Good "Fellows," after which Mr. Bishop suitably responded. During the evening sohgs wefc contributed by the Misses Rea and E. and J. Bennott.

There ,has died at Ferrier Street Leitli, ex-Private Ross, of the 93rd A. and S.H., who is said to be the last,, of the Thin Red Line. He served 21 yeor9 with the !)3rd, and held the Crimean Medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, and Sebastopol, the Turkish, Long Service and Good Conduct Medals. Mr, Roas was born in Leith in 1831, and belonged to a family of soldiers. He enlisted In Edinburgh in the 93rd in 1852 He served throughout the whole campaign in the Crimea. During the scaling of the heights of Alma he was wounded in the left hand, and his riflo was smashed. Roughly bandaging hia hand, and picking up another rifle, be kept on fighting, and did not roport hia wound until after the battle.' t ~(j. > Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Fm Chronic Chest Complaint!