LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Taranaki Daily News, 25 September 1919, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Thirteen degrees of frost were registered at Masterton on Tuesday morning. The mails despatched from New Zealand on August 11th arrived in London on September 21st.

It is said that there are no fewer tlian 20' individuals—lG children and four adults —living in a small four-roomed

cottage in Hamilton.

The executive of the Returned Soldiers' Association at Gisborne, after an exhaustive canvass of members, passed a resolution stating that h found unanimous approval of the Government gratuity scheme, and thoroughly deprecated the action of the extreme section of the Wellington members.—'Press Association.

The New Plymouth Repatriation Committee is experiencing difficulty in finding openings for men wishing to take up farm work. One would think that there are plenty of openings of this kind for steady and willing men, and that farmers would be only too glad of the opportunity to utilise their services and at the same time teach them the work, especially when the Department offers a liberal subsidy. We are asked to bring the matter to the attention of farmer:-, and to solicit their help in training likely and approved men.

A welcome home to a native soldier in the Masterton district the other night terminated somewhat unexpectedly (says the Wairarapa Age ) The guest of the evening became uncontrollable, and it was found necessary to telephone for the pulice. When a constable arrived. he found that an armistice had been declared. The excited soldier had been chased around a paddock, and eventually threw up his hands and surrendered.

The leaders of the Labor party have furnished to the war men who were physical as well as moral heroes, but we have not heard that the extreme Socialist faction has troubled to offer honor or congratulation to, one of them. .Some of them have died in the service of their country. The late Mr E. J. Carey was a notable example of our argument. He gave up a good position, hastening to the front, notwithstanding that lie was beyond the age-limit, and he died nobly with his face to the niy. The extreme Socialists maiie no attempt to do honor to his memory. Nevertheless, he was a man truly representative of Labor, who had rendered great services to the cause of the working classes, and who surrendered life itself on the altar of his country. Carey was the type of hero that the working man is proud of. Webb is the type of hero who claims to be proud of tiie working man.—Wellington Times. The Melbourne, Ltd., lias just received a full range of men's ready to wear suits for the spring and summer season. These suits are all tailor cut and finished and are made from the choicest New Zealand tweeds and worsteds. Prices 79s Cd, 85s, lOis, 109s (id, 119s Cd, and 130s.

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