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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 207, 30 August 1918, Page 4

The Weather Bureau forecast for -4 hours from !) a.m. this day is as follows: "The indications arc for moderate southerly winds, veering by west to north; mild und hazy conditions, with increasing haze and cloudiness for change. Barometer falling soon. Seas moderate; tides good." That there should be no thing in this country as returned soldiers looking for employment, was a. point made by Father Doyle in his address at the Leys liii'tilute last evening. The returned men. he said, had been through so much that they were worthy of the best attention that could be given ti;ein. Citizens, as sensible men and women, should try and realise what a dci-trovini element war was. and they would be more lenient in their judgment and be more helpful to those who arc frail and weak. The Minister of Internal Affairs states that .Mr. S. Hurst Seager, who attended the Australian town-planning conference us the .New Zealand representative, is preparing a full report of the conference l for the Internal Affairs Department. The Minister hopes, early in next year, to arrange a town-planning conference to he held in Wellington, at which will be representative local governing bodies, together with the Ministers whose departments come into direct touch with the ropatriation of soldiers, which appears to 'be ii. subject especially arising out of the town-planning movements in Australia.

A fireman named Daniel' Morris, aged 40, fell over nn cirtbankmciit near the Auckland Gas Co.'s works at Freeman's Bay last evening and fractured his thigh, receiving aleo a number Of Contusions. He was discovered by the police and conveyed to the Public Hospital. The injured man resides in Malvern Street.

The proposal of the Tumaki West Road Hoard to borrow .COOOIf for protective, works to the foreehorq at Kohimarama and St. Holier c Hay and to erect a public hall at St. Helior'o, were both defeated at the poll yesterday. There were 140 votes againat, and 102 for the protective proposal, and in favour of the public hall 114 votes were cant, ac against l&i. The former proposal wa* lost because a three-fifths majority wan necftfirarv.

New Zealand's little training ship, Amokura. is not nearly liig enough for the number of lads who yearn for a life on the ocean wave. The Minister of Marine (lion. T. M. Wilford) remarked at Wellington that if all the boys—a full complement—on the Amokura. left one day he could (ill their places straight away, for he hud received many applications from all parts of- the Dominion. This woe pleasant proof of the (spirit of young folk in these islands, and also of tin- confidence of parents in the record of the .ship and the opportunities that the training opened up fur their sons. The extent to whicli the Conciliation Council Rave* the time of the Arbitration Court is exemplified by a record that has been established in Auckland. Mr. T. llarle (iiles. Commissioner lor this district, filed lit disputes to come before the Arbitration Court, and of that number 1.1 have been fully settled by the Conciliation Council, three were partially settled, ami in only one instance, the softßoods trade, has no settlement been reached. All these dUputfs have !*<en dealt with during the last two mn:iths.

A New Zealand factory manager who returned this week from a vi.-iv to Australia, mated t.. a reporter that Aus tralia is leuving New Zealand far behind as an industrial nation. The reaeon wa--thftt imlustrien in the Commonwealth are receiving encouragement and protection from the (lovernnu nt. and on the other hand the New Zealand Covcrniltent giving Hiiythin.' but encouragement to Dominion industries ill cases evrn placing nbstni-lee i:i the way of development. What would be the result* After the war New ZeaUnd would l»- the dumping ground for Aiielralinn manufacturer*. If the priv-ent attitude of the (lovernment towanl.-i industries did not change the dominion must remain I purely a pastoral country. • Now Zealand people would not rredH the giant strides being made in Australia in every departtnriit of production. It whb an eye opener.

Mr. T. XI. Wilfonl. chairman at the anniversary meeting of the Sailor*' Friend Society in Wellington told » etory characteri.-tic of Herman "Kultnr." When the Hun warehip Meintz war- sunk hy 11.M.5. l*>weatoft. ho said, nttloitg the (firman oflicers rescued was Lieutenant yon TirpiU. ton of the notorious Admiral yon Tirpitz. A British lieutenant took him into hi* cabin, -rave him a cigarette, and offered him a whisky and i«oda. saying that it was all the fortune of wnr. ftnd he might have been the German's prisoner. But young yon Tlrpitx'ii pole reply wa* to apit in hi* face. The young oflicer did not knock him down, as he well might have done, but calmly wiped bis I face. However, the matter was reported later to the captain, and Lieutenant yon Tirpitz flniehed the trip in irons. Instead of travelling in comfort with the other prisoners. (Applause.)

'"When I reached France," says a ■Bulletin" correspondent, "I fancied 1 would at last be able to find out the correct way of pronouncing Yprcs. I made a mistake. The soldiers call it. indifferently, Yeeps. Yeeper.f, Yeeper. Yeeprce. Yeepri, Ipcr. Ipere. Iprey, and a "core of other somewhat similar things, down to one Tommy's 'Hipo.' •Is it Kper:' I asked one woman of the shattered district, 'Kper, m'sieur,' she assented. 'Or is it Kprevt , 1 pursued. "Kprcy. m'sieur,' she assented some more. 'It doesn't happen, to be Woolloomooloo, dof-B it?" I aiked. 'It is anything that ni'nieur pleases.' she said politely. It doesn't matter —Heaps would be the best word to use, all things considered."

Poignantly pathetic was the meeting arising out of the recent exchange of prisoners with Germany— of a wounded soldier and his sister in an East Kml hospital. In l!IIf> a North Lambeth family lost all trace of their only son. who was lighting on the western front. Recently his sister vieitcd the hospital to pee a wounded friend, when she noticed at the end of the ward a noldiur in a. chair, who, wJiencver she looked towards him. jerked his head. She wont to the invalid, who. she was surprised to find, was her missing brother. He had lost both arnirt and legfi and was dumb; hence the reason for the Intervening years of silence.

Mr. \V. T. Humbly, wool-claseing instructor of the Auckland Education Board, in reporting on tbp Te luke class, writes: -"1 must say that after arriving at. the«eentre and learning the conditions obtaining I was agreeably surprised at such a number offering for receiving instruction in sheep a.nd wool and allied subjects. It wae also a pleasure to note the interest, tnkpn in all branches of tfic work, and the measure of application was such that, nearly all obtained the possible at the concluding tests in handling llci'ccs and placing them into bin?. This jiocs to show that once the practical sheepman becomes conversant with the principles of classing wool he will, with a reasonable amount of practice (it really should lie five weeks instead of live days) lie in a position to handle his wool clip in a manner satisfactory to both hinv self and brokers. Of course, a knowledge of the value of types ami conditions of wool, their uses anil yield in results through the various processes which they are subjected to, will certainly make farmers more discriminating wben purchasing rams and ewes, and there can be no doubt as to the individual and national benefit derived from this phase of education. -Mr. Cooper, who in one of the very foremost sheepmen, and one of the most successful in other branches of the industry, has been stirring up the sheepmen down Wairarapa way. and says. , if hie fellow woolgrowere do not drop the drift policy (too much prosperity, of course, accounts for a deal), they will land themselves and the Dominion in a much worse position on the world's markets than was held some few years ago. Mr. Cooprr also stated that the elipe — wool taken oIT skins at freezing works — hue much deteriorated in quality and condition during the last few years. Mr. Cooper is, and baa been for a number of years— since the eompaiiy'* inception—chairman of directors of Wellington Farmers' Meat i'ree/.inj,' Works, and speaks with a full knowledge of the actual conditions prevailing.' .

"I've bceiriiTcfery HCnip in G alii poll and in France since -The landing, , ami I've never had one day's ill iesf> —nevir been off duty once, up to last February, when 1 got trench ■ fever," said owe of thirty long-eeri'iee men who returned to. Australia by tlie last, transport. It was one of the original AnZace Speaking, one of a half-dotefi heroes granted cix months' furlough from the tiringline on account of the.il , four years'spell of duty. (it that six months these veterans hoped to have at least two months in Australia.

At the meeting held in Hamilton on, Wednesday night, to ventilate the grievances of the returned soldiers. Mr. i'ouilg, "VI.P.. read a letter which he. batl forwarded to the Minister for Lands, nrging- the subdivision of tlu> Auckland LUnd District, and the removal of the headquarters to Waikato, preferably Hamilton, in this he, inter alia, wrote:

•' Aβ the Waikato is so central, and must, within, the immediate future, and for many years to come, present a large and important Held for djecharged soldier settlement, that is the reason Why I am so persistent ill urging the removal of the Crown Lands administrative centre from the city of Auckland tn Hamilton, which is situated in a locality more practicable for the rendering or ellicicnt service t<l tho greiit majority of thOBP holding land under the Crown and Administered by the Auckland office of the Lands Department." The Mayor (Mr. .1. R. Fowl moved thnt the Cov-er-intent lie urged to take stejw to bring about the submission of the Auckland Land District, mid tlie reorganisation of the Department, and establish the headquarters in the Wftlkato. This was carried unanimously.

It is nllesjetl that the process of procuring oil from penguins on the Maeijuarie Islands, which are under the jurisdiction of Ta«ma,nia. is a cruel one. Before issuing further permission to destroy tne bird* the Tiwmanlan (!oveminent intend to investigate the matIce. Tliov have communicated with Captain S.'a. While, the South Australian ornithologist, asking him to undertake the task. Thi* will be by no men us easy work in these remote ami frigid region* Tlie means of communication are fciv ami difficult, nn.l the expedition may take five or six months. Captain White is «erioii«l,v considering the request.

Australia is particularly prosperous and nourishing :il tlld present time, states Mr ('. XI. <>!!i\ler (chairman and director nf 11>«* Woobton tanneries). «ho hn* jim( returne<l from it 'rip to Australia. Tin , wheat prodmlion is an eye-opener. There urn liter ally tn llea and miles of wheat Rtacked in rows along some of the made, ill the fiirmiili; district-. These stacks are i-nvercil by iron roof? nml sheltered from the went her by tnrini. Wheat land civn lio punHmspd at a very low producing from 1"> to i 2."> bushels of wheat pel- acre can be bought at £1 an acre. Protection from drought ie obtained by the follow treatment-that is. by putting in si crop every other year. Land in Australia is lx>lter to-day than it wan twenty y<>ars ago. Mr Ollirier said he caw Hocks of fltl.WO sheep which were aver'ajiinjr IT' net for the wool alone. Tlie boot-producing industry waf also surprising. In Mr OHivier'p opinion the Australian firms Wore turning out hoots an (.'oo'.l in the matter of stylo as American firm.". They have reached a great decree of efficiency in their factories. 'i>ousand« of pairs of bnols are on order or hAvr come into New Zealand. The development in iron works was also remarkable. The extensive works at Newcastle are making yrcat progress.

A valuable collection of natural history specimens wns left by Mr. Henry Suter, who died recently in Christchureh. He left directions to the Public Trustee, who is executor under the will, to the efTect that the •collection nliould not be sold without the consent of his two sons. wh«n he instructed to offer the collection to the Dominion Museum. The Minister of Internal AfTalrs stated yesterday, in reference to the question of thn purchase of the collection, which is at present in the Canterbury Museum. that he was awaiting proposals from Mr. K. Speight, curator or the Canterbury Museiim and Professor Chilton. of Canterbury College, who are acting as trustees for the sons in the matter.

In order to produce agricultural lime the Thames Valley Dairy Company proposes to manufacture 1 that article from sea shells at Miranda and Waitaknruni. Tin , matter waR considered by the Auckland Land Board, to which body an application was made for a lease .>f land at Koiirroa, near the mouth of Miianda Creek. The Doard granted a lease for three years, with to an extension for 21 years, rent to lie fixi d by the Commissioner, Mr. 11. M. Skcet.

Tlir Manuk&u County carnival queen is Miw Klsio Dow. She was crowned yesterday in (he I'Apatoetoo Hall, and the ceremony was repeated in the evening, with the hall arranged to represent the nave of Westminster Abbey, where tlic kings iitid queens of England lire coronated. A proeeasion. with the queen-to-be at it* head, assembled and marched to the hall, with the queen, according to custom. surrounded by n guard of honour. Mine Nolies and Mr. .leans sang coronation solos.

Vor some time there has been a war risk of one shilling per cent, on coastal shipping tra.versinij the mine zones. An additional two shillings per cent, on freight has now been imposed. This does not, affeot the Eftst Const trade.

The Government has adopted regulations submitted by the Hon. T. M. Wilford. .Minister of Marine, for the safe handling of petrol and similar inflammable, oils at the wharvea in New Zealand.

Notwithstanding the recent lire. A.M.C. Newmarket branch is still able to carry on business. The upper portion of premises is practically destroyed, lint the ground floor remains intact.- No need to go without your dainty A.M.C. joint (Ad.)

Don't miss the chance. Come ill and see T. Clark's sterling value footwear, offered at sale prices. Every pair reduced.—Three Lamps. Pohsonby. and Victoria Street. City.—(Ail:)

Every elector should know that, in asking' that all should its Monster Petition asking Parliament to grant a poll on the National KfficiiMiey Board's Report in favour of Immediate National Prohibition, the N.Z. Alliance has made it clear that provision must he made to take the vote of our soldiers on tltp question. The Alliance holds that tio one has so good a right as the man in khaki to decide the question—and it holds it essential that, together with the folks ar, home, the men fighting for us should hr given an opportunity of deciding the matter. The people should decide—whatever your views, therefore, you should sign the Alliance Petition asking for the poll. Ad.

A.M.C. Newmarket brand) is still going strong, selling larjie quantities of the choicest meats. A.M.C. quality U tender, and of delicious flavour. Try it! (Ad.)

Some tfffie ago it "was decided that no ■man with • more than, three children under Hi .years of ago should be. ,permitted- to omlmrk for active service abroad with the Expeditionary Force, tho renfion 'iH'.inj; that {State liability in rogartl "to pensions is so heavy. The nun;* ber of oliildren is calculated a* on the Hate the soldier. a , liters camp, and the birth of another child after the father's entry into camp will not affect the question of his embarkation. Neither (Joes tlie rule apply to the man who is compulsorily plaued in Class A of the Second Division by the (Government Statistician, by reason of the fact that he has failed to maintain his wife and family. These men. if paeecd an iit and sent to camp, are allowed to embark irrespective |Of the ntimhcr of their children.

Replying to a i|Ucstion about the rumoured rise of £2 per ton in the price, of flour, the Hon. W. i). S. Mac Donald eta ted yesterday that the report was unfounded, 'flip millers, ho said. lia<! agreed with -the Board of Trude nut to apply for an increase in the price of .Cl r> 1(1/ nt Southern .ports until "February X 1010, no ionji iis wheat remained at tlie present gazetted price. The Australian wheat now being imported did not affect the price of Hour, <"us it woe being sold to millers at the same price as Now Zca-land.-gt.own wheat.

A Hue weal was taken on the Waihi bench by Mr. V. llarley recently, where it had come up to bask in the sun. The seal Was brought into Waihi and exhibited, but us Mr. Harley subsequently discovered. ;ipon consulting the police, that the taking of a seal in n breach of the Fisheries .Act, he returned the visitor to its native element.

While Mr. and Mre. McDonald, of Saarunwahia, were ilriving down Ward .Str.'et. Hamilton, yesterday, their horse stumbled, and (hey were precipitated on to the road. Mrs. McDonald sustained some severe out* on the knee, and her husband had two bones on his wrist broken.

Mc=«rs. Baldwin and Kayward. Patent Attorneys, of H. Buildings, Queen Street. Auckland. Now Zealand, report that recently they a/ted as agents in riling the following application* for letters patent of New Zealand: 1 , . T. l.eniau, Auckland, internal combustion engine: A. T. Coppard, Auckland, cigarette maker: Concrete Construction Co.. Melbourne, manufacture of pipes: S. (J. Rowley. Wellington, sealing road surfaces; \V. I. Uavard. Wellington, cleaning sausnge- runnels: .). 11. Coad, WelHnfrton, plant protector; Mcllwi-aith and Co.. Mt-ibo.i, k--. laun.hy copper; •'. •'. CtinnilTe, Wellington, beilutead bracket. A. K. Ney. Kaet Kcw. packajrjnjr machine; P. Olse - i. Ohelmer, process for curing meat; M. B. Lloyd, Menominec. reed weaving machine: A. .1. flerrard. New York, wire strainer.— (Ad.)

Now is tlir time to buy good footwear at price- which epell economy. T. ("lark's sterling value eftle {rives the chance. Every pair reduced. — Three Lamps, l'onsonbv. and Victoria Street. City. A3.

Hear Madame t'ecile Stephano (coutraltd) pinp "Nirvana." "in Her Oldfithhioned Way." and "When Spring Comes in the Islands," at the J.CX. tearoom ihi«i evening. 7.")0 to S.lO p.m., and S.l.i tn 0 p.m. Dainty suppers, pUin and fancy iecs. flluminatorl roof garden.— .lohii Court, Ud., Queen Street.—(Ad.)