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Gisborne Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 4966, 5 September 1918, Page 5

To-day is th© last day for the setting down of oases to be _ heard at the Supreme Court which sits in Gisborne on Thursday. September 12.

“I have not been to school in my life and I have got on in the world all right,” said Alfred Bradley at the Juvenile Court at Wellington lost week, when h© was charged with having failed to send his son to school. Mr F. V. Frazer, S.M., remarked that had he attended a Bchool he would probably, now hold a better position than driving a cart.

Samples of Southland timber are to be forwarded to Great Britain at an early date, so as to determine its suitability for pulp-making purposes, and careful tests and trials will be mad© by a committee of experts apgointed by the British Government. imilar timbers from the West Coast, which were despatched to Switzerland before the war. and made into pulp, were reported to be admirably suited for wood-pulp purposes.

Eight organisers are now working in New Zealand in the interests of the Protestant Political Association and it was stated at the. Auckland meeting on Tuesday evening in the Town Hall, that it is proposed to appoint five others. Further, it was stated that about seventy applications have been received from different centres in the Dominion for the establishment of branches of the association.

The Minister of Education referring to the shortage of male teachers in the Dominion said the department had power to apply for the exemption of teachers who were members of the Second Division, and he had instructed it to appeal on behalf of these teachers, for the reason that, as Minister of Education and th© responsible head of the department, he recognised that the interests of education must be attended to.

Lately there has been a revival of ladies’ needlework of the ornamental Lind. This is probably due in a large measure to the fact that articles of wear can be obtained already stamped in suitable designs, so that the most unpractised fingers can produce perfect work. At the Beehive stamped articles of many kinds, including crepe nightdresses in all shades, can be obtained. If desired the nightdresses can be supplied hand-worked in any color. The Beehive specialises in fancy work of every description, and hav e a big range of silks and cottons fo r working.

A father who appeared before the Second Canterbury Military Service Board at Christchurch, in furtherance of an appeal for the return of o son on furlough to New Zealand, after four years on active service, said he had been 53 vears in the Dominion, and had 24 children. Five of his sons had gone away at the beginning of the war, and two had been killed. In reply to a question, he said he had been married twice, and had 11 daughters married. The board decided to recommend three months’ furlough on full pay for the soldier son.

Thousands of specially devised rifles for sending propaganda over the enemy lines are now in nse in the Allied armies, according to James Kenery, director of the Franeo-Am-erican Committee on public information. From these rifles grenades are discharged by means of which tracts and pamphlets may be scattered along enemy trenches with considerable accuracy, at a range of more than 200 yards. For greater distances small balloons mad© of cloth are used. Each of these lifts 201bs of propaganda literature, and by means of a mechanical device, drops a quar-ter-pound of these documents at lominut« intervals.

The dairy industry is increasing so rapidly in Canterbury that difficulty is found in securing storage accommodation. Mr J. R. Thacker, of Okain’s Bay, speaking on this subject stated ‘that last year cheese producers entered into arrangements with the Lvttelton Harbor Board to supply extra cool storage at a cost of £SOOO Tli© producers agreed to pav £2soo’of the sum. They collected it by a surcharge, and estimated thattwo years would be required to clear the liability. As a matter of tact, the surcharge, on account <>* 1 "; creased production, yielded £2IOO m the first year.

The fact that the National Efficiency Board reported that Prohibition was essential for permanent National Efficiency, yet recommended that compensation snould be paid, has puzzled many The Board pointed out that the benefits the nation would gam under Prohibition were so great that it should be brought into operation at once. But under the Statute, prohibition would not come into effect for four and alialt vears even if a prohibition vote was carried; hence the recommendation to pay compensation and thus fi ecure immediate prohibition. The Alliance Monster Petition asks Parliament to submit the Boardi’s proposals to a vote. Every patriotic New Zealander should sign that petition to-day—Advt.

plaint has heen made to The Wellington'Post concerning reservists acknowledged as fit for service and yet sent into camp. I n one 0 f the cases special enquiries were made, as it was stated that legitimate reason was known for the exemption of the man, and his failure to enter camp was the cause of much feeling. The official reply ivas that the reservist in question was a temporary officer in the Territorial and as such he had. with others similarly placed, been given leave without pay until further orders. This was in accordance with the instruction that Territorial officers were not to be sent to camp with the drafts, but their names, as they were balloted, were to be forwarded to headquarters, when the men would be called on as required.

A number of rare volumes of a library, sold at an auction sale at Auckland, realised high prices. Two volumes of Buller’s “Birds of New Zealand,” in good condition were sold for £l3 10s. Seven leatherbound volumes of White s Ancient History of the Maori” realised £o, and another set of the same work £5 10s. A volume of Hochstetter s “New Zealand” was purchased at £2, and Thomas’s “New Zealand, m two volumes, at £2 2s. Prices raised for other works were:—Sir George Grey’s “Polynesian Mytholoow,” £1 18s; Iregears , ( Maon Pace,” 17s; Percy Smith s Mauri History of the Taranaki Coast, lbs, and Bracken’s “Musiugs m Maonland,” 12s.

’.“But how are we going to maike tm the loss in revenue if Prohibition is^carried?” The National Efficiency 'Board carefully weighed ( this matter and comments thus: lhe -P ilf should be better able; to provide the necessary taxation if the at present created by the effects o alcohol is removed. Less expenditu .will be required in connection with the Police and Prisons Departments, the Hospital and Charitable A»d Boards, the mental asylums, the inebriate homes, and! for other public institutions.” Surely the electors should have an opportunity ot voting on so important a proposal, me Alliance Monster Petition will give us the poll.—Advt.

Discount for cash! No, no, no! A thousand times no! I don’t give any discount for cash, for the following reasons: Firstly, I don’t give any credit, and therefore have no bad debts to contend) with; secondly, discount cannot b e taken off unless extra prices are charged in the first place. :S. Stone. Cash Draper. -