Page 6 Advertisements Column 4

Evening Post, Volume XC, Issue 88, 12 October 1915, Page 6

" Auckland has nobly, done its duty in the matter of recruiting, but it has not done anything more than Wellington," said the Hon. J. Allen in the House of Representatives to-day. The latest recruiting poster displayed by the Christchurch Tramway Board on its cars reads : " After the war — Will you be among the men who did or the men who didn't ?" The temptation to improve this appeal has been too much for some of the tramway men. On one car the word "or" has been altered to " for." Speaking *t the Tramwaymen's " social " last night, Mr. E. J. Carey said that so far 178 members of the Hotel-workers' Union,' including the president and four officers, had enlisted. There were many men who had not yet joined who were asking themselves the question Lord Kitchener, in his Guildhall speech, had suggested each man should ask himself. Many men were suffering a trial of mind between their sense of duty to their homes and their duty to the nation. As showing the thoroughness of the recruiting system in Australia, a passage from a letter written by a young New Zealander, who recently arrived in Sydney, is somewhat interesting. "The buildings," states the writer, "are emblazoned with admonitions to the young Australian to 'heed his country's call,' etc. Every shop window bears its message, while the very atmosphere of the city seems impregnated with the 'your country needs you' business. I had hardly left the vessel's side when I was handed a printed warning that I would J be liable to £500 fine or a year's imprisonment if I did not fill in the Nation- i al Register form within a prescribed time." A strong point was made by the New Zealand Sheep Breeders' Association, in a letter to the Board of Agriculture, that the reputation of New Zealand stud sheep was being injured by the exportation of inferior rams, and recommending that an examination as to merit should be enforced before such animals -were allowed to leave the country. As the Department had no statutory power' to give effect to this recommendation, it was suggested that something might be" done by the Breeders' Association i£'self on similar lines to those adopted by the Romnej Marsh Association. The board, however, decided to make further enquiries amongst the various associations throughout New Zealand, in order to ascertain their views on the subject. The New Zealand Board of Agricul- j ture recently had a long conference with the Secretary of Agriculture (Mr Pope), Mr. Brown (Direotor of Fields), and Mr. Aston (Agricultural Chemist), as to the best way of assisting the fruitgrowers and the Local Agricultural Committees set up on the recommendation of the Council of Agriculture to carry out use- , ful experimental work in different centres. The matter of carrying out experiments to determine the "most effective I substitute for basic slag, the price of which has been greatly increased owing to the war, was also carefully gone into with Messre. Pope, Brown, and Aston, and arrangements were made to commence experiments in different localities, from which it is expected that valuable information will be obtained. "Would it not strike you as peculiar that a wharf labourer, working sweatily amongst bales, cases, and bags, should be wearing silk stockings?" asks The Post's Australian correspondent. And wearing three pairs at a time! It cer tainly interested some Custom's officials at Melbourne when they learned that a "wharfie" toiling at ship's side was thus luxuriously attired as regarded his knotty limbs. They investigated, and found that, apart from the man with the three pairs of silk stockings, other men working in connection with the same ship had about them large quantities of choice ladies' silk underwear (no details given), and that one of them had padded out his trousers with no fewer than seventeen pairs of highly fashionable stockings, packed in to prevent his legs from being chafed by the edges of cases, so he said ! As the result, six wharf labourers have been arrested on the charge of having been in possession of un-Customed goods, being part of the cargo of the P. and 0. liner Khyber Since the outbreak of war the price of caustic potash has increased from £25 to £100 per ton, and it was suggested by Mr. R. iS. Hunt, in a letter to the council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce last week, that seaweed should be utilised in the making of potash for fertilising purposes, as was being done in America. Mr Hunt said that Mr. T. F. Cheeseman, F.L.S., had informed him that there were immense beds of seaweed on various parts of the New Zealand coasts, notably at Akaroa and Stewart Island, whilst Captain Goertz, of the Northern Steamship Company, had stated that there was a large bed off Motiti Island, in the Bay of Plenty. Mr. Hunt suggested triat collecting and burning the seaweed would provide an industry for coastal dwellers, and that other deposits in, the ocean or on other parts of the coast might be discovered if public attention were drawn to the matter. The council decided that the matter was one for consideration by agricultural and pastoral societies., to whom Mr. Hunt was referred. " Some public men don't like it to be said of them iv public life that they are the husband of Mrs. So-and-So. But I feel it an honour to be known as the husband of Mrs. Luke," said the Mayor at the Tramwaymen s " social " last night, when ' replying to praises of the work done by the Mayoress and her committees. Mr. Luke said that the women had worked night and day to equip the Samoan Force, and had continued their efforts ever since. "I cannot imagine that any reasonable person suggests that a salary of £200 a year is sufficient for a member of the Legislative Council," said the Hon. J. T Paul iv the Council last night. "I admit that it is not," said Sir Francis Bell, Leader of the Council. Within the next few days over 100 men will leave the West Coast for the North Island training camps, fifty odd arriving in Wellington to-morrow by the Mapourika, and sixty-seven by the 6ame steamer on'the following Wednesday. Reporting to the Petone Borough Council last evening, the Engineer (Mr. A. Cowie) stated that the total value of buildings for which permits had been issued during the year was £22,094, for which the sum of £59 10s had been received in fee*. The timber in the Rai and Pelorus Valleys has been cut out, and Messrs. Brownlee and Co.'s mill, which was established over thirty years ago, has been dismantled and the machinery sent to the West Coast. Quite the most direct recruiting speech at the Tramwaymen's "social" last night was made by one. of the men who had enlisted. "I'm no good at speaking," he said, " but I'm a married man, and I say if any single man could etand by and see all those lads go past on Saturday, irell — God help him!" There is just nice time to send that Gallipoli soldier a warm, comfortable "Kayaness" Leather Waistcoat at 10s od. A mail via Australia closes on Thursday. The "Kayaness" Waistcoat is superior to all others. Call Kirk-ca-ldie and Stains, Ltd. — Advt. Fine cloth, light-weight pyjamas for summer wear, 10s 6d and 12s 6d ; Tussoro silk, 28s 6d. "G«o. Fowjds, Ltd., Mjonwi'stireet. — Advi.