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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 43, 19 August 1918, Page 8

There was the customary batch of jurors seeking exemption from service when the civil sessions of the. Supreme Court were resumed this morning. A manufacturing ' confectioner, with two sons away fighting at the front, was excused as being essential to the carrying on of the business, and the same decision was given in the case of a dairyman and a man employed iv the working of special machinery at the new Parliamentary buildings. A medical masseur was given, leave for a day in order to make arrangements with his patients for the remainder of the week. "As you would probably be only able to hear half the case, I shall let you go," remarked his Honour to tlie remaining applicant, whose claim for release was that he was quite deaf in one ear.

"Conferences of the Independent Order of Oddfellows would not have to be abandoned in the future owing to the war, because before this time next year, we should have emashed Our enemies," declared tho Grand Master of. the Order (Mr. Wallace Smith), at Liverpool. Ifi waa mentioned at that conference that nearly 250,000 Oddfellows were serving' with the forces.

Messrs. Williams and Co., Ltd., will sell by auction, to-morrow at 2 p.m., \furni-: turo, fancy and general goods.

Runholders in the high country in the Wakatipu districts are offering £o a day for snow-rakere.

Messrs. C. W. Price and Co. will sell furniture, at 60, Lambton-quay, at 1.30 p.m. to-morrow.