LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 6 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Tlie Telegraph Department notify that tlie censorship of radio messages to Samoa will be removed at 0 a.m. on Saturday, September 6. Over 800 "war brides" and about 200 children are due to arrive in New Zealand this month. The totals include the 358 wives and tlie 76 children which reached Wellington on the Athenic this week. St. Mary's spring flower show was continued yesterday, when a successful afternoon was experienced. The total takings, which are to be devoted to the Pence Memorial Parish Hall and Sunday School, amounted to about £3O.

The matter of lighting and improving the approach to the wharf at NewPlymouth was mentioned at last night's meeting of the Chamber of Commerce bv Mr. Iribe, who said that large numbers of passengers by the boat now went down by the tram, and the road between the terminus and the wharf was in au unformed state nnd was without any light. Mr. C. E. Bellringer stated that the land for a chain on either , side of the railway line belonged to the Railway Department. It was decided to make Representations to the proper authorities in regard to improved lighting of that pi«ce of road.

At the Patriotic Committee's meeting last evening, Mrs. Burgess said that the Soldiers' Hostel was now in good running order. There were beds for 17, and they had 13 permanents. They had no difficulty in filling the beds; the dilnculty was to accommodate the men who wished to make use of the institution. They were providing for the out-patients at the hospital, and had to keep a few beds for them. She incidentally mentioned that all the furniture was now paid for, and specially mentioned the great help given her in this direction by the Pierrots. Settle the land question on sound lines and you are halfway towards the solution of your social and political problem. Throughout all ages troubles have been directly traeed to an inefficient and unjust policy of land ownership. At the last conference of the New Zealand Labor Party a method was proposed that will go a long way towards removing many of the defects of the present system. The policy will be explained in the Good Templar Hall on Sunday night. 'Wairakei is the coming pleasure resort, and Rotorua will have to look to its laurels," said a traveller to a Waikato Times' representative in Rotorua recently. It is understood that tho company which has purchased the whole estate will spend £IOO,OOO in forming tennis courts, croquet lawns, bowling greens, golf'courses, etc. Work has already commenced, and building is going apace. It is said of Waiiakci that it lias all the sights and wonders to be seen at Rotorua within a small radius, and no long and tiresome trips have to be taken. The syndicate is said to consist of well-known Auckland business men, with plenty of money behind them.

We cannot refrain from mentioning with unqualified endorsement, the proposal that the Board of Trade shall be endowed with real authority to attack the profiteer. Everybody 'knows that profiteering and plundering are rampant m this country. They are rampant in most countries, for that matter, but that ■is no reason why they should be tolerated here, where the people have larger political rights and powers than in almost any other part of tho world. If there is going to bo industrial peace in Aew Zealand, if the masses of the people are to bo contented, they must share, arid fully share, in the great measure of prosperity which the Dominion enjoys in a national sense. Above all, they must not be robbed.—Lyttelton Times.

•Explaining the word "Digger," Briga-dier-General Brand, the Victorian Commandant, stated recently that it was the password used by the Australian scouts on patrol in "No Man's Land," and eventually the terms was applied to fighting troops. At one time, he said, the greatest compliment that could be paid to a man in France was to refer to him as a Digger. Since the armistice every man wearing the uniform of the Australian Imperial Force was dubbed a 'Digger." The word should be protected, said General Brand, and ghould not be applied to men who did not know the sound of a "5.9."

According to the Evening News the list of crippled men in the British Army is little short of appalling. The News gives the following figures on casualties nnd illness;— Twenty-four thousand soldiers lost a limb by amputation, 128,000 suffered injuries'to a leg or an arm,' not, however, necessitating amputation; 3(1,000 suffered from neurasthenia; 60,000 suffered from chest complaints, including tuberculosis; 39,000 were treated rheumatism, 04,00 suffered from heart disease, 10,000 suffered from deafness. It also is pointed out that only 289 men died from typhoid and similar fevers, due to the inoculation method, while 11,090 cases rejult,ed fatally in the French Army before inoculation was begun.

Drapers in England have been advised tliat lower prices for certain kinds of sewing cotton were to come into operation on May 10. At present 7Jd is charged for a reel that before the war cmt 2y„d. Manchester firms estimate that, about £10,000,000 worth of cqtton goods—yarn and cloth—will bo released by the removal of the restrictions on exports to Holland, Denmark, Norway, 'Sweden, and Switzerland. Sweden has actually paid for £2,000,000 worth of goods at present in Manchester warehouses. A general improvement in the cotton industry is anticipated,

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A special feature of the final day, today, of the Melbourne's great sale, is a line of 38-inch striped flannelette stained with Jeyes' Fluid during transhipment. As full reparation has been made by the shipping company the goods will be offered at 4Jd to 9d yard. The stains will easily wash out. Frist come first served. No mail orders.

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