TELEGRAMS. MILITARY TOURNAMENT.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 108, 3 November 1909, Page 3

TELEGRAMS. MILITARY TOURNAMENT.

[BX TELEGRAPH— SPECIAL TO THE POST-] PALMERSTON N., This Day. Fifty-three corpß will bo represented at the military tourney to be held in Palmerston on the King's Birthday, and some 500 men will participate. The Artillery includes the B Battery, Dunedin, and the D Battery, Wellington, two companies of the Auckland Navals, and three companies of the Wellington and Petone Navals. There are two companies of Engineers from Wellington and Auckland, six of Mounted Bines, and twenty-three of infantry, besides cadets, scouts, and ambulance corps. FEILOING NOTES. [BY TELEGRAPH — SPECIAL TO THE POST.] FEILDING, This Day. The weather is on its best behaviour aga.ni. One of the Standard" VII. pupils attending the Kimbolton Sphool, Frank Nesdale, showed such skill in classing wool at the classes recently held in this district by Mr. Cahill that he has been engaged by Mr. William Beard to classify nis season's clip for him this year. A representative of a firm which operates very largely in this district says taking a period within which the firm djd £bO,OOO worth of business, they had to write off only £50 for bad debts. 3.c had found the district absolutely tfolid. Business is and has been extremely good, and is improving. Speaking at the opening of the new school at Dunolly, in the Waituna (where the Romney sheep is strong), Mr. F. Pirani, who was present as chairman af the Wanganui Education Board, said it was unfortunate that the board had no power to erect school buildings without the sanction of the Education Department and the provision of funds by the Government, and that was the reaBon they had to wait so long for the new building, for the board had recognised its necessity long ago. There were now twenty-four pupils on the roll, and he hoped that with the increase of settlement, and the young children coming on, there would be need for an enlargement of the building. The new school was supposed to accommodate forty pupils, and it was fitted with the latest single desks to seat thirty-six. The settlers in the district in the past had been very generoug towards the school, and he trusted that their liberal attitude towards it would be continued. NEW ZEALAND GOODS. NON-PATRONAGE BY NEW ZEALAftDEBS. lEDEGBAPH— SPECIAL TO THE *O3T.] AUCKLAND, This Day. A prominent member of the Auckland Industrial Association endorses the views expressed by Mr. H. F. Allen, of Wellington, with reference to the non-pat-ronage of New Zealand- goods by New Zealanders. Local manufacturers, 6ays the gentleman in question, are forced to hide the fact that their products are made locally, in order to enect the sale of the goods they manufacture. The only articles that can compete against the imported manufacturers are those that are very apparently superior, and the only products to which it is wise to affix a local trade mark are those ■which can only be made here. He expressed strong approval of the Canterbury Association's movement in circularising the schools in order to educate the younger generation in giving preference to our own products. "If," he added, "the members of the labour unions would only give their support, and patroniEe the local industries, they would make a world of difference to our local conditions, and provide work for many mechanics here, instead of supporting the employers of sweated industries of other countries. What is wanted is a united effort on the part of our local manufacturers in educating the public into viewing their articles as on a par with, if not superior, to the imported goods, instead of selling them as loreign manufactures."