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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 167, 15 July 1918, Page 4

The Weather Bureau advises:—"indications are for southerly winds, strong to gale. The weather will probably become very cold. Barometer rising shortly. Tides good; sea rough oli shore." The Auckland quota of the Fortyfourth Reinforcement Draft will leave for camp next Thursday by special train at 2.50 pjn. The train will carry approximately 240 men, including 140 from the Auckland City Group. Tlie men from the Waikato, Hauraki, and Bay of Plenty groups .will board the train at Frankton about 6.25 p.m. All the recruits, with the exception of those for the N.Z. Medical Corps, will proceed to Trentham camp. Captain W. H. Walters will be in command of the train, and Lieut. H. N. Hilliard will assist him. The adaptability of the colonial soldier m-as strikingly shown in Devonport at the end of hist week. A heavy load of scoria, drawn by three horses, ' when going over a soft piece of ground, caused one of the joints of a water-pipe to burst, letting the -water spout out with great force, and causing a great loss of water. A returned decorated officer of high Tank was near the scene at the time, and on being supplied with a shovel shifted a great amount of earth as to the manner born. He was just on the eve of getting the water turned off at the elbow joint when the borough men, having heard of the leak, put in an appearance and finished the joh, while the officer pursued his iway as if nothing had happened. A man, Patrick Mc.Grath, lately employed by the Waiapu County Council, left camp at eleven o'clock on the evening of July 10, hatless and bootless, and was hist seen passing the native village of Jerusalem next morning. Search parties have been out without success. Mr. N. Btirnet Gadaby, o f Te Kuiti, who went Home to Aberdeen University before the war to study medicine, and who after three years' study joined the destroyer Owl and did a year's work on 1 her as probationary surgeon when that I vessel was doing patrol work in the , North Sea, and then put in another session at the university, has been appointed a house surgeon at the Aberdeen I Royal Infirmary. He expects to sit for I his final examination in March next. Mr. jOndsby matriculated at the Wellington College. When a troopship recently brousht back a large number of our wounded soldiers, some of our 'boys who had returned a short time previously went out to welcome their friends. One officer found his way into the officers' quarters, and found there another highly decorated officer who in former days had been a soWier under his command, with his sleeves rolled up, busily polishing his belt in anticipation of going ashore. He was coveted decoration to his friend, when the civic dignitaries came on the scene, and in a fitting speech the hero was welcomed back to New Zealand. Both of these men were probably under 25 years of age, one had the highest distinction a British soldier could covet, and the other was also distinguished. Both were unassuming, and in the ordinary walks of life would have been pursuing the humble work of "the daily round and common task" unseen and unnoticed. Of such stuff is the best British soldier made, and such instances are not rare. The public inquiry into the loss of the steamer Wimmcra is to be held in* Auckland. During the progress of an Association fifth grade match between Wild Rose and Technical College at the Domain on Saturday afternoon, a player named Ray Lincoln, who resides at Avondale, fractured his forearm. Ho was running after the ball when he stumbled and fell upon his arm, receiving the above injury. He was immediately conveyed to the Hospital, where the injured arm was set, and he was later taken to his home. A epecial express train convoying retnrned soldiers leaves Wellington foT Auckland at 2 p.m. to-day, and is due to arrive in Auckland at 7J50 ajiL to-mor-row morning. The managing director of the stock department of the Wairarapa Farmers' Co-operative Association at Mosterton, Mr. Ormond C. Cooper, died on Saturday afternoon from injuries received in a motor-car accident on Wednesday night. The following resolution was passed at a meeting of the Masterton Agricultural and Pastoral Association yesterday: 'That this Association recognises the obligation ef the farming community of New Zealand to the Imperial Government and the Imperial Navy for the facilities for marketing wool and other produco during the war, and is perfectly satisfied with the terms arranged by the New Zealand Government with the Imperial authorities in requisitioning the wool for the duration of the war and for one year thereafter." There is a very serious shortage in the supply of fresh milk to Wellington residents. An interview with a Plunket nurse discloses the fact that no fresh milk is obtainable in the city on Mondays, and there is an extremely short supply of any "left over." In some parts, where there is always a shortage, and the nurses are awaTe of urgent cases, they take a supply with them. The suburbs where there are local dairies are better off, and the Monday shortage is attributed to the lack of Sunday trains. In making humanised milk for a baby it- is neeessaTy to set a certain quantity for; some hours. Lately it has not been obtainable, and many children are not having the quantity of cream necessary for their well-being. This is hard on both children and mothers. The Superintendent of Telegraphs advises that traffic for the South Island is suffering two hours' delay owing to interruption to lines. In addition to the financial support received from trade union and other societies the Workers' Educational Association is receiving increasing assistance from public bodies. During the present session donations have been received as follows: —City Council, £50; Birkenhead Council, £1 1/; Devonport Council, £5; One-tree Hill Council, £3 3/; and Hamilton Borough Council, £5. The McCarthy Trust, Wellington, has donated £100, and £100 has been voted by the Wellington Harbour Board. The Official Assignee (Mr. W. S. Fisher) has received word that a petition in bankruptcy has bene filed by Frederick William Kohrij baker* of -Bawejoe, 1

Writing from Scbeveningen, Holland, to relatives in Auckland, an "Old Con- j temptible," who rwas taken prisoner at j Mone in August, 1914, says: "They have! made great improvements in all the pri-' son camps this past year, and treat the ' English -with a little more considera-, tion than what they did before, but God knows -what would become of them were ; it not for the parcels from home. I hope , before very long to ibe able to give you a little idea of what -wo have suffered, I and what I myself nave seen others suffer. Nothing is too bad for the 'Square Head;' but I wish to forget it. To mc it seems out of all reason that such a beautiful country—and it is beautiful —should foe inhabited by such an unscrupulous people. We have a saying here which we have always carried through that Dante's Inferno, and that is, 'keep smiling.'" On one point -we can heartily congratulate the State (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph"), and that is upon the absence of industrial disputes and strikes during the past half-year. Last year was very 'black in the history of trade unionism, over 3,335,000 days' work were lost to the men, and the community through these disastrous revolts, involving them in reductions in wages to the extent of nearly two millions sterling. In the firgjt five months of the current year only 64,917 days were lost to them from such causes, or at the rate of less than 156,000 per annum, and it is to be sincerely hoped that such an encouraging start will he maintained,' and that strikes this year will not reach onetwentieth of the magnitude they assumed during 1917. The Australian Navy Department, acting m conjunction with the Repatriation Department, has arranged for free passages to Australia for the wives" of officers and men who married in the United Kingdom, or who are returning after long absence from the Commonwealth. The same privilege will be extended to the wives of those men who have been invalided. Private George Caffery, who twice escaped from military custody at Auckland, and eventually was captured at Newcastle, N.S.W., aboard a vessel on which he had stowed away, has been sentenced by a court-martial at Featherston Camp to eleven months' hard labour for deserting His Majesty's service. The sentence, however, has been mitigated to 120 days' detention, and again further to provide that if the accused embarks for active service overseas, then upon arrival at the port of disembarkation the tinexpired portion if any, of his sentence shall beremitted. Mr. John Taylor, stock expert of the Queensland Department of Agriculture, who has just 1 returned from the Solomon Islands, says that the only excitement that occurred ! while he was there -was the arrest and ; conviction of two witch doctors for the murder of several natives. The medicine men adopted a unique method of inflict- j ing cruelty and death on their credulous victims. They first caught a snake, then | secured their man, forced the live reptile down his throat, rammed grass down on top of the wriggling snake, and then completed the choking process with a stone. It was alleged that this mode oftorture was exercised on three or four islanders. One witch doctor was sentenced to death, but the sentence on the other was not announced when Mr. Taylor left. The death occurred on Friday last of Mr. A. B. Speakman, who for many yrara was connected with the Huddart" Par- | ker Company. Mr. Speakman, who was a native of Hobart, joined the company's service over twenty years ago, and for many years acted as purser on the Australian and New Zealand coast. For some years he 'was attached to the Auckland office and retired about a year ago owing to ill-health. The funeral, which took place yesterday afternoon, from his late residence at Aecot Avenue, Remuera, was largely attended, and included representatives of the Huddart Parker Company, who acted as pallbearers, also representatives of the Harbour Board, and other shipping companies. Mr. Speakman, who was 39 rears of age, leaves a widow and one eon. The Mayor (Mr. J. H. Gunson), who is also chairman of the Auckland Drainase Board, cabled last month to the Prime MmistcT in London, with regard to the piping for the Board's lov level pumping station, shipments of which had been delayed for war rensons. This morning he stilted that he had received a reply from Mr. Massey to the effect that the material had been shipped. Further ad- I vices had also come to hand indicating 1 that it would airive in New Zealand in a I few days' time. This piping was needed for the completion of the Board's system of drainage, he said, in the low level area of the city, embracing the whole of the harbour frontage from Campbell's Point to Ponsonhy. There were four stations affected, all of which had been built, and merely awaited the installation of the machinery, and which, when completed, would enable the City Council's drainage reticulation to he linked up j with the Board's main system, and would I thus obviate the necessity of continuing the discharge of sewage into the hour at various points. After a series of private meetings in their respective groups, the undergraduates of Sydney University held a general meeting of their association, and decided to try to form a reinforcement company.! There were about 400 present, and an j executive committee was elected to manage the organisation. There are over 1500 Sydney University men already on active eerviee, hut there are also more j students attending lectures this year than there have been in any other since the war began. Undergraduates are anxious to keep up the University's representation in the Australian army, and they are going to organise in order I to make sure that they are doing their j utmost. About 320 men have promised to put their services at the disposal of their country in this way. When alldeductions a-re made for those (who will not be taken or not allowed to go aa combatants, there will no dowbt be a considerable number more required to form a company, and, if they do not offer, the Undergraduates' Association will release the others from their promise. At the Auckland Savage Club korero, held in Te Whare on Saturday evening, Bro. F. J. Whittaker presiding, the executive of the Auckland Orphans' Club were the epecial guests, being welcomed by the Rangatira, and responded to by Bro. W. J. Napier, vice-president. A meeting of the Sandera Memorial Committee is to be held to-morrow afternoon. Aβ previously intimated, collection lists to the number of 700 have been distributed among the principal commercial houses and the State schools. The Mayor stated this morning that the committee had not undertaken any personal canvass., as they were of the opinion that the nature of the project was such that it would readily appeal to the citizens, and command their voluntary support. The secretary, Mr. G> = R. Hogan, at the Town Hall, is empowered to receive subscriptions, and amounts may be forwarded, to that address.

We have received a copy of the first issue of 'The Month," '"a journal devoted to Catholic .interests," published in Auckland, and edited 'by the Right Rev. Dr. Cleary, Bishop of Auckland. "No clean and proper human interest is alien to us," eaye the opening paragraph, "but our main purpose 13 expository—to ect forth the Catholic viewpoint on current subjects that have a religious or moral aspect. Mere controversy forms no part of our general programme. It -will be purely occasional, exceptional, we hope, and limited to dispassionate explanations of the Catholic position where this is misrepresented or misunderstood." The Auckland butchers' dispute will come on for hearing before the Conciliation Council to-morrow morning at 10.1* o'clock. Some thirty-five people who were of alien nationality, by birth' or by marriage, came before Mr. Wyvern Wilson 53!., this morning, because they had failed to register, within the time specified, as aliens. Most of the defendants were women, and they were all convicted and discharged. In the case of two American citizens, and of a Dane, who had shown some degree of carelessness in circumstances when they might have been expected to have knowledge of the law, the defendants were fined each 10/ and 9/ coste. One point that cropped up during the hearing was that an alien who had been naturalised in New South Wales was still an alien in New Zealand or any other British State until the naturalistion papers were endorsed, in that particular State. _ Everywhere in the hairdressing establishments of Auckland there are chairs unattended, not so much because the saloons of the tobacconists have less patronage as for the reason that the men for this class of work are very hard tc get. This shortage of capable hairdressers is not peculiar to Auckland, foi the same difficulty in finding saloon assistants is a big problem with tobacco nists throughout the Dominion. Since the ballots have begun to be called this shortage has become the more acute, foi many of the professional hairdressers ir the country have been settled and mar ried, and have been "caught" with the Second Division. It' seems as if mer cannot be got to replace them at theii trade, neither can younger people b< found to learn it. A further development has taken place in regard to the trouble 'With the Jugoslavs on the Origarue-Stratford railwaj line. Mr. J. Cullen on Saturday received a telegram from the section of these men who struck work recently stating that as the Public Works engineer had failed to comply with their demands tt be paid by the day instead of by the piecework system they would 'be leaving j the district on Monday to seek othei employment. It is stated that there art : sotne 39 • men in the party that haf created the trouble, and informations i will be laid against them immediately jin the Magistrate's Court for defying th< I regulations regarding alien national ser I vice. The vexed question of the Hindi liawker and his place in the communitj wae brought before the Wellington Cit\ ' Council by Cr. L. McKenzie. Cr. Mc i Kenzie did not think these men shoulc be allowed to hawk, as was the case The Mayor (Mr. J. P. Luke) said thai the question of dealing with the Hindi was going to be an acute one in Welling ton and elsewhere. They were Britisl subjects, and he thought it was a niattei I for the .National Government to con I sidcr. He had, through the Labour De I partment, tried to get work for thesi men, but there -was nothing offering, anc as they must lire they had resorted t< hawking. Another matter that wai giving trouble was providing come sor of work for men who had been cripplec before the -war. Of course it iwas onli right that returned men who >were dis aWed should be given the prefeTenci when any suitable work was available and that fact was operating against pre war cripples. Time after time such mci had come to him, but he could do next t< nothing for them. Elderly men who wer unused to hard work —men who wantei some eort of clerical work —proved an other trouble. They "were, in many in stances, finding it difficult to live unde the altered conditions of life. On General Pershing-'s recommenda tion, the War Department has recog I nised that tobacco is as much a necessit; I for soldiers as clothing and food. Eac' 1 soldier >with the American forces will b issued a daily ration of 4-10ths of ai ounce of 6moking tobacco and 10 cigai ette papers. As an alternative, foil I ready-made cigarettes will 'be issued, 01 I if preferred, 4-lOtha of an ounce of chew j ing tobacco. Just how 4-10ths of a: ! ounce is going to ibe issued to the mci has not yet been determined, but th quartermaster is now working out ; plan. ' • Medical men in Melbourne hay sounded a note of warning in regard t "carriers" of diphtheria. A report i the "Argus" gives credit for the eff cioncy of the anti-toxin treatment, ibu indicates how the remedy may help i I spreading the disease. Convalescents i I infectious hospitals may he discharge' after only two throat swabs have r< vealed the disappearance of the dip! theria germ; but a throat negative tc day may be positive to-morrow. It ma happen that the germ has hidden in on J of the many smig recesses of the throal and, while not causing a fresh attac' ion the is there ready for th . infection ot another person by contaci iThns to the nir T, ho.r of ordinary "cai riers" who her.- *''<■ germ "without bern I attacked then , Ives are added man; I still infectious convalescents. "Ant toxin is , doing what it was intended t do—cure caees," said a medical officei "but, while saving lives, it increases th number of carriers." The State of New Jersey (TJ.S.A.) ha I brought into force a Compulsory Labou j Act, which declares that it is "the dut 1 of every male between the ages of 18 an 50 to be habitually and regularly er, gaged in some lawful, useful, and recog • nised calling. Anyone who fails to be s 1 employed for at least 36 hours a week i liable to a fine and imprisonment. Th fact .that a man has an income sufficicn for' himself and those dependent upo , him is no excuse for his not working, no is inability to obtain iwork considered reason for idleness. It is the duty of th Commissioner of Labour to find usefi ! work for anyone who applies to him f0 employment. Any man found within th State borders is regarded as a residen: 1 ani comes within the Act: and if a ma ! habitually loiters in streets, hotel j stores, or other places it is taken a i evidence of his refusal to work, and h is punished accordingly. America b< lieves that every man must earn hi daily bread! I The Rev. J. L. Burgin' preached at S Barnabas', Mount Eden, last night o behalf of the Church Army huts. Th collection which was taken up amount*: to £121. J " The Analogy Between the Univere ' and the MindV' is the title of Wednet day's lecture at the New Church, New ton Road, by the Rev. Robert J. Stron< Ladies', maids' and gent's raincoat. , tweed coats, underwear, blankets, rug; I flannelettej special prices. Bridgman's. A