RETURNED MEN TO GO TO CHURCH.

Feilding Star, Volume XV, Issue 3829, 4 July 1919, Page 2

RETURNED MEN TO GO TO CHURCH.

A church parade of returned soldiers is fo be held at St. John's Anglican Church next Sunday morning for the Peace Service. Details are advertised.

"Eighty per cent, of the people in WooMnn own the houses in which' they live." said Cγ. Owen at a meeting of t.li'c Borough Council. "Our reserve of coal will last lor about a week, and after that the town will be in darkness unless fresh supnliep come to hand immediately," a Oreytown delegate stated at the Local Bodies' Conference. My. Thomas Mawson, the British architect who is directing the reconstruction of towns and villages in Kasfcern Macedonia, says that Salonika, promises to become a model city. The express motor-car service, from Wanganni to Wellington, organised by Mr. J. Hodson, commenced yesterday, two full cars making the journey successfully. The negotiations between the flaxmillers and- their employees are apparently well on the ,way to a successful conclusion on a basis satisfactory to both parties, and work- will bo resumed on Monday—but where does the railway come in ? Many Germans who want to leave for neutral countries are unable to do so, because the German Government is demanding £1000 for a passport. The Cabinet has approved of the scheme submitted by the Hon. J. A. Hanan. Minister of Education, for the dental treatment of school children. As a first step, it is proposed to appoint nine dentists, including a director, and to obtain a number of motor dental ambulances. The .riext wool crutching valuation is set down for about the middle of this month in AVjdlington, and it will bo the last of the series. It is expected that it is only now that the fine New Zealand crossbreds of the 1918-19 clip are making their appearance in the London sale rooms. The mysterious disappearance of Mr. William Smith, of Smith and Smith, Ltd.. oil and colour merchants, Wellington, is occasioning his family much anxiety. Mr. Smith, whose health has been indifferent for some time, attended his office as usual on Saturday. He lelt some friends that: to catch the ferry boat for Day's Bay, where- his homo is, but he'has not been heard of sinco.

During the war nearly 3UO destroyers and flotilla loaders were launched in Britain. Altogether some 2,000,000 tons of warships were added to the British Navy in the four years of war, , n^w., cosfc of l ,ml >abl.V between •U00.000,000 and £300,000,000. The total sum spent during the four years neioro the war on new construction S:ooo?ooo. to «''°ut

It is no wonder that some of our Ministers are called parochial politic.'- an «V, M Di,1 '« av i J J« the other day Sir \\illiam Fraser, Minister for j»ubJic \\orks, staled thai, on the present estimates there were 4000 roads ,>n<l •ridges. The Minister was expected '•y the public, he fia id, io hare an intimate knowledge of each one, and lie certainly had to answer correspondence regarding each one. Supposing lie did know each one, surely the titled gentleman would not place his knowledge above those of efficient departmental officers. Or docs he really think that his engineering skill keep's pace with that of everyone else?