LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 36, 6 November 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A Gazette Extraordinary containing the names of 5000 reservists in Class A of the Second Division, drawn in the recent ballot, -will be issued to-day. The names of tho men residing in Wellington and tho eurronnding districts will bo published in to-morrow mornings Dominion. The Garotte will contain also the names of 1500 First Division men, comprising youths who havo attained military ago recently and other men who havo had to bo drawn to com: plelo tho exhaustion of the liret Division.

Jlis Excellency tho Governor will review tho Thirty-first and Reinforcements at Trenthnm on Friday at 11 a.m.

Eleven married and eighteen single men applied at the State Labour Bureau in Wellington last week for work, tw married and fifteen single men were placed. Fourteen of the men wore sent to private employment. Twenty-six of the •twenty-nine, applicants wcro labourers. In' addition to the above seven returned soldiers applied for work and four were placed.

A shock of earthquake was felt in Mnsterton shortly after seven o clock on Sunday evening. Cameras aro very sternly discouraged as playthings for soldiers on the Western front. In the last copy of General Orders issued by General Gocllcy apnenrs an announcement that nn officer. Lieutenant M. B. Forpie,had been found guiltv by court-martial "of being, in posUi6n of a camera.'. , The punishment was reduction of seniority, to make his appointment date from that of the courtmartial, and so to reduce his chances of early promotion, and he was also to ie*eive a severe reprimand. " At a lately-attended open-air meeting at Tnumanniii, a resolution was carried unanino sly to ask the Comn.issioner to alter the name of tho Waimarino dectorate to Taumarunui, to retain the borough's political identity. A larseyeigneoT petition, is being forvvardcd.-Piess Association. . A summary of the work of the Pensions Board for the month of October has been supplied to tho Defence Minister In the period 799 claims were received from Soldiers and dealt with as follow: la Ssfone and 763 allowances were> granted; 18 applications were declined,, «nd three were adjourned. Irom < dependanU thcro were 274 claims, dealt with as under- 169 pensions were granted, ond 73 allowances; ?9 applications were declined and three were ££ total .annual value of the pensions granted in October was .£69,168, making the grand total of annual value .e602,119. ! gJSreSSo?a.o entire «° fg of soft goods hold in Now Zealand by Messrs. Jt'Eldowney Bros. The National Committee of the Young lS Christian Association pledgee the following contributions to its war undsr-War* Relief Association of Wlin»ton £100; Alcock and Co.. Wellington! iS* 10s ; Bulk. & £ ; W. P. Anderson PalmerstonNoith, Xo, H G Brown, Murchison, £i us. Bd., "HB> Mi W A. Stamper, DanneTirke, JBli J. Brown- Winton Ms.; T. Flower, Bulls, 10s.; i>.P.H., 1U»-. \n inquest was held yesterday morning by Mr. V. G. fiiddell, S.M., concerning the death of Georgina Sutherland G endav 4i years of age, wife ot Chailes cSenday, of Ngaio. On Friday morning llstMr. Glendny was found by one o her sous hanging with a rope round er neck in a back room of tho house Ihe family arrived in New Zealand in March of this year, and prior to coming out Mrs. Glenday had a very serious illnen. contracting blood poisoning, from which she never thoroughly recovered. She went, about her household duties as usual on Friday, and gave no indication that oho wild take her own life. It appears that she attached the rope to d«tno light hook in tho ceiling of the back room, and used a step-ladder five feet for the purpose.- She must then lmve fixed the ropo round her neck and kicked away the ladder. The coroner returned <i verdict that deceased committed suicide while suffering from temporary mental depression. The Mostflrton Racing Club made a profit of £1089 9s. 2d. on its October meeting. For the combined district of. the County of Hutt and Town Dirtnct of Upper IFut!: (Wellington Hospital ami Charitable Aid Board) election, to be held on November «,!*■ Angus . • M'Curdy, of.Upper Hut and Hntl County, has been'nominated by Messrs. Kichafd Quinn, of Trentham, and Alfred Keys, of Upper Hutt. Tbo cup presented by tho Camp Commandant at Featherston for the bwt-tepl huts and lines has been awimlpd to h Company. Thirty-third, for the week ending November 3. The Masterton Golf Club closed its BfaeVn on Saturday last. Tho results of (he various competitions wore as l oi-C-Mixed foursome, Miss E. Pobieson nml'Mr. J. Bee; driving competition, Mr H H. Dawson; putting: competition, Mrs Guy Williams and Mr. G. A.

Greonwoo'd. In Los Angeles, on September IP, a crowd of soldiers, variously estimated at from two to four hundred, wrecked tho headquarters of the Industrial Workers, of' tho World. Typewriters and furniture were broken, windows smashed, and all-movables demolished. There werei ro reported casualties, and no arrests. The soldiers, in column of squads, marched down San Pedro Street and swung- into Fifth Street, where the headquarters were located. At a shouted command they halted and remained in line while three or four of their number stepped inside and told Philip M'LougMin, secretary of the local, and two or three loungers that they were going to wreck the

place." At thoir annual conference the Chamber of Commerce will consider the following remit from Wellington Centre :- "That this conference earnestly urges nil chambers of commerce to recognise that tuo most urgent and vital work for an organised bodies and citizens throughout Cue Dominion is to assist in achicvimj a high standard of national efficiency by (a) assisting the National JMnciency Board, and supporting the National Government in giving effect to recommendations of the board; (b) endoavouring to secure tho economical expenditure of public funds; (c) actively opposing national, civic, or private waste aud extravagance in any form-money, material, service, or time; (d) stimulating ffie production of tho Dominion; (o) opposing any monopoly or trust tending to exploit the people with regard to the necessaries of life; (f) 'round table conferences with omployeos ami employers with "i view to bringing same closer together, thereby affording the means of a better understanding of each other; Is) study of co-operative, co-partnership, or profit-sharing schemes, and endeavourins to instituto same on sound lines acceptable to both Capital aud Labour; (h) improving our education system, so as to nrovido for moro economic, scientific, and technical training; (i) above all, impressing upon citizens of tho.Dominion that their most sacred duty is to ensure fullilmcnt of the obligations tho country is nToitged to in TCgard to war anil after-war expenditure, and .that nothing short of national efficiency in its highest scuGO will maico this possible. Sinco Iho beginning of September (ho Auckland Harbour Hoard has been collecting a harbour improvement rale of Bd. per lon on all outward and inward cargo, and Iho shipping companies nro passing this chnrgo on to tho drippers. Tho matter was mentioned at yesterday's meeting of tho council of the Wellington Chamber of Cominorce. Tbe craicil decided (hat it could do nothing beyond thnt Wellington mcrphants selling c.i.f. Aucklnnd fihonlil debit the purohneor with tho Cd. per ton levied by tho Auckland board.