"PEACE TO-MORROW IF-"

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 3293, 16 July 1917, Page 2

"PEACE TO-MORROW IF-"

Some painful home-truths for Germany are uttered by the Soziaklemokrat, of Wiesbaden: " It does not show any great political wisdam to imagine that Russia will make an offer of peace to Germany, where not a single democratic idea has as Jet come to. fruition, whereas Russia has gone to the length of creating a revolution to spread and consolidate these ideas. Everything in this world has its price. Germany might have peace to-morrow if she chose to take example b ywhat is being done in the enemy countries, and threw overboard the political privileges of special classes" We fear, however, thaiserious internal trouble must occur before the eyes of high-placed but obtuse personages are opened sufficiently wide."

The Minister for Internal AlFhips intends to introduce legislation- this session dealng wth iho examination and the licensing of drivers of motor cars and motor cycles by local bodies.

There will not be any parade for No. 55 Company, Senior Cadets tomorrow evening. The company will parade on the 24t hand 31st- insts.

" When people know you have to go to the front, they offer voii ridiculous prices for your stock," said an appellant at the sitting of the Appeal Board at Masterton.

The Manawatu Hut Club's hounds will meet at the homestead of Mr W. Reid, Feilding. on ' Wednesday next. ■nxl at the Feidling reservoir on Saturday. The throw-off on each day will be at 2 p.m. These will be the last meets of the seasou.

At the meeting of the Second Division League in Masterton, much comment was made on the decisions of the Military Service Medical Board wjhen examining recruits. " Numbers of rrecruits," said *one member, "get the shock of their lives to be told they have a weak heart."

All the prizes of the Randwick Rifle Club this year are to be paid in war stamps and war savings certificates. Thi sdecision was made by the club at its annual meeting last week, on the motion of Mr J. Wallace, who claimed that £4000 would be provided for the use of the Commonwealth if but 100 rifle clubs followed the Randwick Club's example.

The County Engineer (Mi- H. Sinclair) reported to the meeting of the Pohangina County Council that labour was very difficult to procure, and some of the contract work had been hung up. The, county road men and settlers were the only labour the county now had to depend on. and nearly all the casual men had been called up for active service.

" Our noxious weeds inspectors are far too lenient," stated Mr Richard Reynolds at the conference of the Council of Agriculture. "In some parts land is losing at- the rate of thousands per year because of the psreading of these weeds." Other speakers asserted that the Government was "as big a sinner as anybody."