LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXII, Issue LXXII, 12 October 1916, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

The value of building permits issued by the Borough Engineer during the month of September was £938, Work will shortly- be, put in hand ftf link up the Eastern extension cable With. Wellington direct^ and, when completed^ tlie Wakapuaka station will be discontinued." About 450 boys of school age have been excused, attendance from, elementary schools in Surrey for. employment in agricultural work. The Borough Council has given permission to Mr W. It. Shaw to erect a shooting gallery in High street, the revenue from which will be devoted to the Red Cross funds. Mr Arthur Greenwood, of Leeds University, suggested to a conference of working-class leaders at Oxford that they should work for the setting up of a National Council of Industry and a Ministry of Labor to succeed the Ministry of Munitions at the end oi". the war. "Many of our best men have left the work in favor of share-milking, etc. (stated the engineer in his report to the Borough Council, last night). Owing to this and the effects of the war it may prove to be difficult to maintain costs at their low figure." At last night's meeting of the Borough Council a communication was read from the Minister of Internal Affairs, directing the attention of the Council to the Cost of Living Act, stating that the Government was prepared" t6 consider claims from municipal authorities for making regulations contained under the Act. No action was taken by the Council. Residents will be interested to know that the Borough Council. last night resolved- to sell, at practically cost price, tar chippings and materials to anyone desiring to put down paths, but that it could not undertake to do this work, which coidd very well be left to private contractors to carry out.

Classes to instruct women in dental mechanics are to be opened in London at the Borough Polytechnic.

The Hawera Borough Council last ™ ght appointed Mr Brant, head ■*■ lughterman, temporary manager of P' c abattoirs during the absence of r G. H. Barker, and it was decided n at he .share the, salary with the tl >wn Clerk, who is doing the clerical ,b M-k. t] At the request of Cr Harding a re>rt showing the cost of the public *■ >nveniences was laid oh the table at ?J st night's meeting of the. Borough v ouncil. The total cost was stated to r } £526 15s 7d, while the amount ox c le loan sanctiQned for the work was r 500. The extra cost was due, the [ayor explained, to the Council hay- d Lg to procure another stall on account r. t one that had been ordered in the r rst instance breaking. i In replying to a vote of thanks ac- v circled him tor a lecture to the mem- c 3i's of the Philosophical Institute, a. } nristchurch, Professor T. H. Easter- ; eld said he was the unfortunate pos- * 3ssor of two patents (reports the , \ress). He had hawked them up and , own Britain, but no one wanted them. _ Vithin a month of their _ publication, ' owever, letters came to him from Ger- j tiany shoAving that the • people there ; irere alive, and that they realised that here might be possibilities in the pat>nts. Th.c war, however, came along, iiid probably he would never get a ; ►enny out of them. Little is known of the prodigious >ask of patient labor accomplished by he British Fleet, remarks Le Journal Paris). Nevertheless it is fy this silmt work that Germany is boiug Cine ;o death; To be the dourinant factor in ;he defeat of itbe iiost ano ii:-u-ible conspiracy against civilisation woich the vorld has ever seen «hould' be honormough for the British Navy; and that .ts part in this unparalleled contest is so recognised by French or inion should be consolation ior the conspicu>us and heralded triumnhs flat h&v© been denied it. The Borough Council has decided to add two rooms to the. abattoir cottage, on the recommendation of the Finance Committee. Cr Bone, chairman of the Finance Committee, mentioned that the additions were absolutely necessary in the interests of the health of the occupiers of the cottage. Instructions are to be given to Mr Gibson, architect, to prepare the necessary plans" and to call for tenders for the work. A well-known French medical maga^ zinc has been publishing the opinion of airmen against the use of alcohol. The late Lieut. - PegQud ■ said that he never took alcohol in any form whatsoever, saying that it would soon ruin the nerves of anyone engaged on any business that involved breathing when rushing through the air. Many other airmen contribute similar sentiments, the captain of an airship saying: "All of lis are absolute abstainers from spirituous liquors on. the airships, for we need to keep clear heads and sound nerves, and those are things "to which alcohol is not favorable*. On an airship it goes just like a Sunday school; we. neither drink nor smoke." Although so many "adult swimmers have gone to the front, the New Zea--land Swimming Association is finding .that, much good work can bp done amongst the pupils of the public schools.'. It is anticipated that at a meeting of the Association to be held shortly about 2000 £ertincates—comprising learners', proficiency, and merit certificates—will be issued to school children. This is a big increase over any previous number of these certificates issued. Apparently. there is still much .work for the Association t° d° in this particular field,, as it seems that it is hot too well known that the Association issues such certificates. From one big school inft-Auckl^nd. a request was -recently received if flsi|f Orms of ap-plicatibir-iin'. respecfl to 10& pupils, and it is estimated tn&to^si?>, are other schools in the same.^ityge^hftOf which could apply' for aftsimilia^niffiiber^ Th© Borough Engineer reported to the Borough ; Council l^st'evening -thathe had received; an application for', a building permit for a whare to be erected in Grey street;- There were, he pointed put, some very fair houses being built in that:*-"street, and it seemed to him to' be Hihfair to the residents _to allow '. a whare to be- built which .might depreciate, the value of their propertiesi The" Council did" not appear to bave any power to prevent the whare from being erected, and he suggested that a by-law be; framed allowing no bedroom or living room to be constructed the floor space of which was less than 120 square feet, and the internal height less than 9ft 6in: The Mayor said this raised a very important question. Cr Burrell ] remarked that it was pretty hard; to dictate to people what class of house they shall erect. Cr Morrissey moved that the! report be referred; to the Plans and Building Committee to go into. They: did not want to see whares built all. over the borough. Cr Goodwin seconded the motion, wdiich was carried. , In a letter!,; Dr Thomas Guthrie, the Scotch philanthropist, gives in interesting description of the sage of Chelsea as he appeared in 1856. "I did not. wish to disturb Mr Carlyle," he writes^ ''but he came, and an uncom-mon-looking man he is; an eagle-like look in his great glaring eyes, hair half grey, and a strong Dumfries-shire tongue. He ftivas in a robe de chambre mo§i. kind ;and.courteous; I got' him upon .the, neglect 6_* the uneducated and the lapsed classes; h© and I were quite at one,. He uttered' a number of great.thoughts in magnificent language; lightened and thundered away in sublime style—at the heads of Gfbreriiprs, ladies, and gentlemen, and this selfishft world;"and he looked to me very much—as he swung his, arm, cienched his fist,,'and glared round him with, his black beard and shining J eyes and grizzly hair—like an'incarnation Of Thor, or Woden, or some other Scandinavian divinity." It pays to collect the camels off Desert Gold. Tea packets. £50 ,ir prizes; Family blend, 1/9. Special grades, 1/10 and 2/-. —Advt. WHO WAS COLONEL SHRAPNEL? Colonel Shrapnel was the man who invented the Shrapnel Shell—one of the deadliest missiles of war. you have an idea for a war invention! If so, call and we will have a chat together concerning its prospects. There may be quite a lot of money in the idea. If you cannot call, write for our Free Booklet. Henry Hughes, Ltd., Patent Attorneys,. Featherston street, Welling-ton.—-Advt. 104

Owing to the inclement weather the opening of the Manaia bowling green was postponed from yesterday to. Wednesday next. The opening oi' the New Plymouth green had' also to be postponed. The census is to be taken on the night of Sunday, the 15th inst., and the papers that have to be filled in are being distributed here as elsewhere throughout the Dominion. In .many cases those who receive schedules ask the distributors to explain them, but the schedules themselves contain full instructions, and if these are carefully read, householders should find it easy enough to write in the required information. It is related that the folly of endeavoring to be humorous at the expense of the Federal War Census management was recently pointed out in a mild way to a young man who wrote, as answer to the query addressed to him as to the time when he would be prepared to enlist, "When tke Roses Bloom Again." Very soon afterwards he received a further communication from Melbourne telling him ■fckut the roses were blooming in the full glory of their completed splendor, and that consequently the time of his preparedness had arrived. Like a man, he immediately enlisted, and is now a proud Anzac. To-day British statesmanship in Ireland is bankrupt (says Stephen Gwynn, M.P., in the Daily Mail). The word is with the soldiers, now as before the rising. Their work goes on. Orangemen come back to Belfast, wounded and pay their visits to the Falls roac with news of this or that Catholic whe has fought or fallen beside, them Catholics come back and hobble , oi crutches to Sandy row with tidings o: the Ulster Division. So a web is wovei of common losses, of glories shared and. in the end, in spite of the states men, blood may be thicker than Bovni water. ft ' " A gentleman who recently returne< from England informed a representative of the Auckland Star that he saw on .ef the "tanks" tried at a wire en tanglement. He remarked: "It jus went on to the wire, then tore its wa through, and with drags behind pullei all the deoris out of the way of th soldiers. The thing seemed to b equal to going over all sorts of rougb country and still keeping its balance. It must have all sorts of mechanism inside to enable it to be worked as ] saw it ;go." Messrs Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Palmerston North, report having held a sale of pedigree Holstein cattle on account of. Mr W. I. Lovelock at his homestead, Karere,. on Monday, the 9th inst. Though there was not a large attendance, buyers were present from Canterbury, Thames, Morrinsville. Taneatua, and Auckland, and the foil lowing 'prices were realised: . Bulls, 36gns; 4ogns, 48gns, 50gns to 55gns: heifers, 45gns to 47gns. A month-ole bull calf sold on, account of Mr W McKenzie realised 68gn's. The cost of planting private members' Bills from May 9 to July 21 was £3t lOs, of which the efforts' of two members, Mr Payne and Mr Veitch, were responsible for £31 7s 6d. Mr Payne had nine Bills to present, while Mi Veitch had four. Six other member* had one Bill each1. ', The Public: Health Department' is j paying special attention to the questior of short-weight ' 'pounds'' of butter offered for sale. Tne Hon. G. W. Russell has approved a.number of prosecutions on charges of selling light-weight pats In some cased it ha 3 been found thai six "pounds," when weighed together were four and a-half ounces short, and the Minister stated: "There will, be £ campaign to see that the people get i pound weight of butter when "they paj for it. ,If butter is'ls 6d and a pounc is an ounce short the buyer is clearlj being robbed of a penny per pound, oi from six to 'even percent." 1 "Men cannot b e got for love oi money,?' was a statement made by s rtiember of a sawmilling firm at the Southland Land Board meeting, whdr j called upon to ( show causo why the firm's rights over sawmilling properbj should not be cancelled. He state* that the maj Or portion of the sawmil workers in Southland Were young men and as they had enlisted there only re mained the old men, who were not prepared to go into the bush and engage in the arduous duties incidental to sawmilling. As far as their mill was concerned, operations had ceased for some time, and the £4000 expended by the firm on mill, plant, tramway, etc., was non-interest bearing. The firm were as anxious as the Board tofthave the busl felled and the timber marketed, but the circumstances mentioned rendered this impossible. During a debate in the House oi Commons on the Scottish Estimates, i 1 was announced that the Duke,of Suther- ; land had given an estate of 12;000 acres "to the State for the settlement of soldiers and sailors who have voluntarily served abroad. A certain number 61 acres of the land will be reserved for sailors who have served in the North Sea off the coasts of the United Kingdom. In the selection of settlers preference will bej?iven to men in good physical condition, but disabled men will not necessarily be excluded. In an official statement by Lieut.ConHna'nder S. Sladen, R.N., the chief officer of the London-Fire Brigade, he says:—-"As a insult of four enemy air raids on the London area in 1915 the brigade received reports as to the deaths of ..44 m^lg_.and 34,'..:f_ males, and injuries'to 94 ffi_es""Sad 80 females. In addition the lives of 20 males and 31 females.were endangered by fires and explosions caused by the air Taids^ of whom 31 were rescued from positions of perirby,the brigade." THE POISONING OF 30 GIRLS in a Melbourne factory by eucalyptus lollies, which were evidently prepared from the common eucalyptus ("Age" 5.8.'16), points out forcibly the'importance of using only the GENUINE SANDER EUCALYPTI EXTRACT internally. SANDER'S EXTRACT, 3 drops on sugar, prevents meningitis and all other infectious diseases, because it is pure and without harmful by-effects. The volatile ethers, which SANDER'S EXTRACT alone contains, give it an i unique antiseptic -powar. They disinfect th.c remotest _ crevises, whereas a stale lolly in which .crude residue only is left is necessarily without effect and injurious. The common eucalyptus oils and so-called extracts should never be used as # medicine. 'SANDER'S EXTRACT is not only safe internally, but does not irritate when applied to tender parts, to which it imparts new vigor and healthy -action.* REHUMO REACHES THE GOUTY SPOT. Rheumo is absorbed right into the blood—and penetrates the innermost recesses of tissues, muscles and joints. Thus Rheumo reaches the gouty spot and attacfe) the disease at its root — dissolves and expels the cause—^excess uric acid. Mr A. Gillespie, of Wellington, was cured from Rheumatic Gout by two bottles of Rheumo. He recommended Rheumo to his friends, with the following result. He writes: —"A friend who had suffered from Rheumatic Gout for some three years, whose case was considered hopeless, received almost immediate relief from pain, and after- taking three bottles of Rheumo was able to leave her bed—to which she had been confined for four weeks —and move about the room." Get Rheumo — 2a 6d and 4s 6d bottle—_d*t. MI