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Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 64, 15 March 1916, Page 4

The following is ttr. D. C. Bate*' weather forecast for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day: "The indications are for moderate to strong easterly winds prevailing. Expect warm and sultry weather, and increasing haze and cloudiness for change. The barometer ha. a falling tendency. Tides good. Sea moderate.''"

During his recruiting tour, ilr. C. H. Poole, M.P., was told that there was just one place in Taranaki it was unsafe to visit—the young men of a certain town had threatened that anyone who came along there to talk about shirkers would be introduced to the local river. Naturally fihat was the place the burly member for Auckland West made straight for. A big crowd filled the public hall, but the throwing of a bottle on the roof was as far as any active opposition progressed. "I was told," remarked Mr. Poole,'"that if I came and talked recruiting in this town I would be ducked in the river. Well, I don't particularly mind being ducked, and I have a swim every day of my life if I can get it. I'll just say this, that, if I go into your river per force, I'll wager I won't go alone. There will be two or three of you to go with mc. But to get to business. Isn't it time some of you made for Europe, filled with a resolve to duck the Germans?" Applause greeted the speaker, and his meeting was voted one of the most successful of the campaign.

It is intended to hold a big recruiting rally in Newmarket next week, at which the Prime Minister will probably speak The Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey has wired to Mr J; S. Dickson, M.P., as follows: "The Hon. Mr. Allen has seen mc with respect to the meeting at Newmarket. I will be ai the Auckland district at the beginning of next week. Am fully engaged for Monday and Tuesday, but if public duties permit -mc to stay until Wednesday, will be pleased to speak at Newmarket that night." Mr. Dickson has wired to the Prime Minister, stating that a combined meeting has been arranged Under the auspices of the Newmarket Borough Council, and the Epsom and One-tree Hill Road Boards, and it was hoped to have all the other authorities in Eden County assisting.

The scheme for providing work for returned soldiers is now well in hand. Consequent upon the offer by the Govern- i ment to provide free places at technical schools for properly accredited men, a form of application has been issued to the various branches of the Patriotic and War Relief Association, and to the various hospitals and soldiers' homes. When these forms aTe returned the committer will be enabled to gauge the number of men likely to accept the employment. An offer to provide tuition in book-keepin° for returned soldiers has been made by the N.Z. Accountants' Association. Returned men who wish to acquire a knowledge of wireless telegraphy must first acquire a knowledge of the Morse Code. The demand for wireless operators is' however, small, and few men could be' relieved by this branch of employment. Everything possible is 'being" done to provide work in the country for those who prefer a rural occupation.

The Prime Minister last session, reply-1 ing .to complaints that friendly societies were being injured by the operation of the National Provident Fund, promised that a conference of societies would be, called to discuss the position with the' Government. The Minister administering the friendly Societies Act, the Hon. J. A- Hanan, stated yesterday that a conference would be summoned in about j a month's time. j

The council of the Auckland Acclima-! tisation Society last night decided on a; deer-shooting season for fallow de«r in j the Waikato district this year, extending from this date till May 31, for which licenses will be immediately available. In the matter of property-owners being allowed permits to 6hoot deer, it was mentioned that no decision would be arrived at in the matter until the return of a Government officer who was paying a visit of inspection to the Hinerua district, whence complaint had come that, the deer were causing damage to crops. . The promptitude of the driver of the ! goods train which left Wellington at 4 j a.m. on Monday, averted a serious rail- j way accident at Featherston. The point 3 j at the crossing at entrance to the railway yard, it is stated, had not been . placed in a proper position to run the , goods train on to No. 2 track, so as to allow the Masterton to Wellington express to cross, and the consequence was ■' that the train which had just a.rived; from Wellington crashed into a railway milk van and some wagons laden with I goods, despite the fact that the driver of the engine attached to the goods train promptly clapped on the emergency ; brakes. The milk van, the front part of j which waa smashed by the collision, was i with the goods wagon, driven right through the goods 6hed. The engine was j slightly damaged. j

It was reported to the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society last night that the society's pheasantbreeding operations at its farm this Season had been the most successful in the history of the society. Already 220 birds which had been bred on the farm had ibeen disttfSbuted ifirroughout the district, while another 40 were waiting to tie distributed, and yet 58 more were about ready to go out, leaving still 30 young birds in hand from the season's operations Recently the society had received at the farm 15 imported cooks and 21 hens, which were stated to be the finest birds in size, colour and condition yet received, while there were from the 1 old stock 10 young cocks and 30 hens available, with the imported birds, for nest season's breeding operations.

When-the Minister or Justice last came to Auckland he inspected prison camps at Waimarino and Rotorua. He also made a thorough investigation at the homes for inebriates on , Pakatoa and Rotoroa Islands. Asked this morning if he had decided- upon any departures, the Hon. Dr. McNab said that all the schemes contemplated involved further expense in the matter of classification, and this brought them to the closed doors of the Treasury. "If the war goes into this next financial year," added the Minister, "and it looks as if 't will, we may be faced with still further retrenchments.''

In connection with his visit to Auckland the Minister of Marine (the Hon. Dr. McNab) mentioned to a reporter this morning 'that he had come principally to see if something could be- done in connection with the facilities for navigation o& the Waikato River. It would be remembered, 'he said, that the Waiter ways Commission ceased its-work owing to the war. Probably when the war was finished* the work would be'resumed, but in the meantime he was giving his personal attention to matters of urgency. \

Figures compiled from the "Labour Journal" by the secretary of the Auckland Kailways League show tbat cooperative labour employed on railway works in which "the Auckland province is particularly concerned for the month of December is as follows: —KawakawaHokianga, 66; North Auckland Main Trunk, Kirikopuni southwards, 3; Kaiwaka northwards, 225; Whangarei-North Auckland Main Trunk, 194; Waiuku branch, 91; Huntty-Awaroa, 29; WaihiTauranga, 58; Tauranga-Te Maunga, 13; Manganui-Taneatua, 202; GisborneMotu, 42; Napier-Gisborne, GisborneWairoa, 56; Napier-Wairoa, 20; Strat-ford-Main Trunk, east end, 63, west cud, 156; Raetihi-Main Trunk, 58; Opunake branch, 35; total 1,307, as against 41S for the South Island Grand total, 1,725. Roads: Total, North Island, 1.052; South Island, 346.

A well-known letter carrier of Frankton, named William Henderson, was arrested by tbe Hamilton police on Sunday night on a charge of stealing a postal packet containing £2 5/6. He was charged with the theft before Mr. E.. Rawson. S.M., when Senior-Sergeant Cassells asked for a* remand, stating the accused had admitted the theft of other postal packets and further charges would be preferred against him. An adjournment till Tuesday, the 2lst, waa grantel, bail being allocated in the sum of £100.'

The difficulty of obtaining old bottle 3 has been increased by the men who used to collect them from houses enlistin" (says a Wanganui paper). Second-hand w:n e and spirit bottles which before tin r , ", f A t , Ched 12/ a gross are now selling for 30/ a gross, an expert stated recently. As the result of the house-to-house canvass for old medicine bottles started at Islington a week or two a°o to obtain money to buy a motor-ambu-lance for the front, 100,000 bottles have been collected from about 20,000 houses and shops.

Mr. H H. Ostler, of the Auckland firm of Messrs. Jackson, Russell, Tunk* and Ostler has been appointed assessor for the Public Work/'DepartoenHn connection wath the Department's claim in the Compensation Court for £16 915 in respect to land taken for the widening and reconstruction of Jermm Street. '

"The harvest in Southland this year I : COTd '" reil >arked Sir Joseph Ward during a brief halt m his journey from Gore .to Lyttelton. "The yields have been remarkable, and the whole district is looking splendid: Good weather favoured the gathering i n o{ their crops; as a matter of fact, the results are without precedent."

The shortage of men for Home Mission work was touched upon at the meeting of the Auckland Presbytery last mght, it being mentioned that no less than 20 stations were without supplies because so many of the men had <*one to' the front. A student was called from Kinox College to Clevedon Church and a minister was invited to fill the vacancy at Somerville Memorial Church, Remuera, caused by the Rev. McLean havinc gone to the front as a chaplain -

There is a good deal of sickness in the Hawera district just now (cays the "Star"). Within the last six weeks seven cases of diphtheria, eight cases of typhoid and four cases of scarlet fever have been notified to the'health authorities. Two of the scarletina cases are in the hospital fever ward.

Arising out of the recent attem-t V obtain the reclaimed dock- ■_&*. * purposes of a public reserve Mr i : Bond, a member of the Har&WlW requested that a return should 7 showing the extent and value of «. cessions granted by the Board t«T City Council and others, and their „i 7 tion to the total value of reclaoaS' This was presented to the~HarW Board yesterday .afternoon. * showed that the total leased to the City Council it under concession was 25 •<*.» ■>, perches. The area dedicated as itiLi t' : excluding Customs, Fort, ConanerttS Patteson Streets, was 46 acre^m?'• ° d The area taken by the S y °» ment amounted to 73 acres 2 « ?* while G4 acres were lease&AS7 parties and 36 acres 3 roods disposed of. The return also dSL?' detail with the cost and the value of the reclamations, fefff was appended pointing out «__«'•' ' accuracy of the figures relating prior to 1911 could not be v- , for the reason that up to I reclamations were apparently «J j bited with the cost of tej£B t ' Board's books did not , silt was actually deposited. Th_X, were probably considerably bdA.vf? ' actual cost. Mr. E. W. that the return demonstrated tS the past the Board's method, of hit keeping had been unsatisfactory, w The annual meeting of ratepayer* ;. the Epsom district will be held «?£ May in the Manukau- Vatrfln^ 4 Board's office, and the election ' of& memoers will take place on 4th May Tenders have been called by h Epsom Road Board for the 160 tons of 4-inch cast iron nip« to 1 used for the reticulation scheme on tW : area in the Epsom district not indue* ' in the Manukau Water Supply Boarfcarea. • ■ -*'j. *:.' A timberworker named John Goffia employed at the Kauri Timber Company's mill, accidentally cut three finm. of 'his left hand rather deeply with V circular saw this morning.' fie «. '■■-■ taken to the hospital, where'the l ___.V was dressed. Three members of the Land 7c6mak sion, Messrs. Ritchie, Skeet »nd.H_rr_7 together with the members lof a ha\ syndicate, have been inspecting a property of 8,000 acres at Maungat-Btliri, which has been offered to tie Goutsment, after which they proceeded ti Maungakawa, where Mr. James Taylor las a block of 11,000 acres that he will doubtless dispose of at a fair- prfce.T. (Cambridge correspondent.) Knowing that Baxter's Lung. Pre- ' server is a real - remedy for chest and 1 V bronchial troubles, one need never felt these distressing ailments. Big bottle 1/10, everywhere.—(Ad.) .-. - lj l 44-inch cambric embroidery-flonnan} slightly soiled, marvellous value," 1/6 p« yard. Last week of sale.—Cash and Cdi, Newmarket.—(Ad.) " v-; The demand for our famous Excelsior flannelette is increasing daily.' Why not try a dozen yards? Only 1/- per yard. Practically flame proof. White or striped. ;* Smith and Caugbey, Ltd., for good value.— (Ad.) j