THE B.S.A FAVOURITE WITH MILI TARY DISPATCH RIDERS-AND

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2526, 29 July 1915, Page 4

THE B.S.A FAVOURITE WITH MILI TARY DISPATCH RIDERS-AND

been said, with much' truth, that the business testis the beat test of any motor. War is tho grimmest business of mankind, and the military mntor-cvclist stakes his life, very often, ™nn t jL reliability of his monnt. Here U P what Sergeant R. E. Schofield, K.E., penior instructor of the Motor-cycle Sn. tion at Aldershot, has to say:- Nearly evorv dispatch ridor that has gone to ths front has passed through my hands, and I am therefore in a position to juflg. liniv the different makes of machine, ar» in favour. The B.S.A. is by far away, the favourite, and it lias yet to happen that n B.S.A. has failed to act up to iti well-earned repute. . . . I may state that 50 per cent, of tho machines hero ar# B S A.'s." A motor-cyclist with the Spoj oiid Cavalry Division, British Expedition, irv Force, writes in a privato letter: "Ths roads are hellish. . . . My B.S.A. is tho goods. I n?vcr havo to touch it. They are the bike?, my boy. They knock the and any other make you like to men> tion into a cocked hat." Thero are plenty of other letters from the front, all to tltf eame effect. Wo are landing 20 of th« latest model B.S.A.'s ex s.s. Marlborough this week, and can give immediate de> livery. They are ideal machines foi either solo or sidc-car service, and their reliability is famous. The h.p. is 4}, and the three-speed countershaft gear is foolproof and wonderfully efficient. Adams, Ltd., ■ Chri6tchnroh, Wanganui, Palmerston North: Sutherland and Kankine, Wellington i Tourist Motor Co., Aaentfl for B.S.A. Motors.—Advt,

At the Lower Hutt Police Court yesterday, before Mr. Wallace James, J.P., a first-offending inebriate (a Native) was convicted and discharged. Tho joint letter to the Prime Minister regarding harbour dues on transports earning freight having been signed by the principal harbour boards of the Dominion has been forwarded tc tho Minister, and a roply received thai the mattor will be submitted to Cabinet for consideration. The inquest concerning the death ol Harry Parslow, who after firing at a soldier named Ernest Wm. Collingwood 011 Tuesday fatally shot himself, will be held at 4 p.m. to-day. The Public Service Commissioner is being consulted as to whether it is practicable to givo effect to a suggestion that salaries and wages bo paid -weekly to public servants. Replying to a question in the House of Representatives yesterday, tho Prime Minister said that the Government was giving careful consideration to the proposal for tho setting up of a pprnianont Board .of Trade and Industries in New Zealand.. . The "Otago Daily Times" publishes the following comparison of the prices for the produce lines enumerated. The first set .of figures is applied to 1914, and the second sot to 1915: —Wheat 3s. 7d. to 3s. lid., 6s. Bd. to 6s. lOd.: oats 2s. Id., 4s. Id. to 4s. 2d.; chafl £3 Ss., £7 55.; potatoes £4 55., ££ 10s. to £7; onions £o 10s., £6; flout £10 10s., £16; bran £4 55., £8 155.; pollard £6, £9 10s.; pearl barley £14, £22 10s.; oatmeal £12 10s., £23. Respecting tho quotation of flour at £16. a note is added to fcho effect that flour has been reduced 30s. per ton within the last month.The president of the Methodist Conference (Rev. J. Dawson) is requesting all the Methodist churches ' m the Dominion to make Sunday, August 8, a day of intercession-for national blessing, and for victory and universal peaco. The annual meeting of the Now Zealand' Licensed Victuallers' Association was held in Wellington yesterday. Mr. John Beveridge,' of Christclrarch ■ (president), -was in the cliair. Tho finances of the Wellington harbour district were presented at last night's board meeting as' follows:— Current account, credit balance, £42,998; imprest account, credit balance, £133; on. fixed deposit, £60,000. Accounts 'totalling £40,584 wero passed for payment, and they wero summarised thus: —For interest, sinking fund, accouuts, and wages, £39,180; for progress payments on contracts, £535; for salaries for July, £868. If h, conference of New Zealand Harbour Boards eventuates (which is not certain yet) tho following will be one of tho Wellington remits: —"That the Government be requested to amend the Harbours Act so : that Government vessels, coal hulks, transports .earning freight, and other Government vessels sngaged in commercial trading shall pay all harbour dues and license fees in the same manner as ordinary ' mercantile vessels." Another remit will bo:'— "That tho Government be requested to amend the Harbours Acts! so as t-o enable boards to acquire lands and' tc erect thereon homes for harbour-board employees and other waterside workers." ' The Wellington, Harbour Board will submit to the proposed conference_ of Harbour Boards the following motion: "That the' Government'bo requested to amend the Harbours Act in order to provide that whenever a- harbour board election is .held simultaneously with a contested election of members of the local authority, a harbour board, shall bo liable only for the costs of its special advertising and printing (not including tho costs of compilation and printing of rolls), and in addition a sum.equivalent to ten per cent, of tho' actual cost >to the local authority for conducting-its own and the harbour board- elections, and such other elections'as tho local authoiity has. by law to conduct, .the board's special costs of advertising and printing being first deducted." Mr. A. Moore, of Auckland, who has been towing the Dominion on behalf of those shopkeepers who are desirous of securing tho same option as to the day of the week on which the half-holiday should be observed as existed prior' to the universal half-lioliday being carried by a vote of the people, has returned from the south. Mr. Moore states that, broadly speaking, he found the proprietors of-the big southern shops. satisfied with the existing order of things, and the small shopkeepers very' much dissatisfied. In Dunedin at least 75 per cent, of the shopkeepers , (other than t-V.oso who had always closed on the tiaturday) favoured the option, and 500 i-ignatures to'tho petition in its favour were secured" in two days. ,TJp to the orescnt some 3000 odd signature's hare been obtained to the petition, which is ,to' be brought under tlip notice of Parliament within the next few. days. Major C. C. Clioyce, M.D., F.R.C.S., who - was appointed to' command tho 19tlf General Hospital attached to the British Army, lias now been promoted to tho rank of colonel. 1 No definite information-as to where lie is-station-ed has. been received, but it, is thought that he is in tho vicinity of the Dardanelles. - A Press Association telegram received last evening states, that the Taranaki Land Board yosterday passed the following resolution :—"That on the occasion of the. retirement of Mr. Janies Mackenzie, 1.5.0., from t-he Under-Secretaryship or Lands, thereby severing his connection with the Public Service, of the Dominion after continuous service of over 4& years, the Land Board of this district, of which he was formerly Commissioner and Chief Surveyor, desires to congratulate him on the completing of so long and honourable a service in the State and public interest; also to express sincere wishes that he may continuo to have many years of health and vigour to enjoy his well-earned respite from active public duties." *