LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue LXXIV, 15 May 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS.

-_ '—— I I-fch&B been definitely ascertained that the Tax Department 'does not propose I to apply the amusement tax to admission fees to dances, and -payments already made will be refunded. It is reported that the general store at Awakino, kept by Mr W. j. Avery, has been robbed, a safe having been removed and bleWn* open. A sum of £70 or £80, it is Widei-stood, is involved. According tV a return furnished by H.M. Trade Commissioner, and which is now being circularised among local bodies, 6679 motor cars and 2814 motor i cycles were registered in the Dominion during 1917. Of this number 482 cars and 195 cycles were registered in Taranaki. There will not b e a full meeting of I the Cabinet until next Monday, when ! the sentences passed on the men in Christchurch for sedition will b e considered. j "We will have to arrange terms, as \ our machinery bill is getting pretty : heavy," said the chairman (Mr W. 11. Wright) at yesterday's meeting of the Opunake County Council, when -the ; question of the purchase of some pumps , was under consideration. | It is freely reported by returned sol- , cliers that the reception of their Engi lish brides in Auckland was none too ! cordial. Some of the. Queen City's disappointed maidens are alleged to have made audible sounds of disapproval when their English rivals came down i the gangway. i ''It's charges like this that make a solicitor's bill of costs a scandal,'' said •Mr Justice Hosking at. th Q Auckland ■Supreme Court on Tuesday, when a lawyer's bill was brought before him for taxation. The item that brought the remark from his Honor was a charge of five shillings which the solicitor had charged for serving a summons on him. self! ■ xt.l * JA "**? derstood (says the N.Z. Times) < tnat Cabinet has granted the widow and family (three young children) of the late paymaster, William Hall, of the State Coal Mine at Runanga £1000 as I a compassionate allowance. Hall, it will be remembered, died later of bullet ; wounds received on November 9, when f J. Coulthard, was shot dead near Grey- \ mouth by a man named F. W. Eggers .' who has since been hanged for the murder. J At a meeting of the Waitotara County : Council on Monday last, reference wa_ : made to the condition.of th e Watershed road—a road really on the boundary . line between the Waitotara and Patea County Councils. The chairman (Cr I Ross) remarked (says the Chronicle) that ~ thi s matter came up for discussion from time to time. It had been a sore point ',- tor a long time. Settlers in the bloei ■ complain that the Patea County Coun- ) cil won't do anything for them. Th« , - Waitotara County Council had done its i best to try to get the Patea county tc come to a settlement in th e mater, bu* ; without result. The settlers pay rates , to the Patea Council, but use the Wai. totara, Council's roads. He moved that the Patea County Council be asked tc ' ( contribute half of the rates derived trom the properties adjacent to the 1 w-_ _and ia{hhg an agreement, th. Waitotara County Council to apply for a commission. This motion was carried. Twlni- a _?**?£ J 6' the May°r (Mr Dixon] Mr K. j± Nolan, replying to a request • that some war trophies should be obtained for Hawera, says it is difficult to get hold of any, but he has brought the matter under the notice of Sir ! inomas Mackenzie, and he has promised 1° ii 7 # a": ange matters. Referring to the New Zealand Soldiers' Club Mr Nolan says it is rather in the track of air raids, and this causes anxiety tor the lady workers as well as for the soldiers. People m New Zealand, he thinks cannot realise the tension under which' I work is done. Directly an air raid alarm , is given, he adds, hundreds of thousj and* of people rush for the tubes, which ; alone give shelter. Earlier it was thought that the basements were eufFici ent, but the greatest casualty list arose trom a bomb coming down through a six-stoned building, and especially in the basement. i "Home casualties" is the striking , term which Mr Neville Mayman,. t i J 1*51-? 1' f irom New iSouth Wales, applies i • _re r rge numt)er of preventive .ceaths of infants (says the Wellington ! «?T>' 2 0nr home casualties," he says, j have oeen divided into two categories j the dead and the more or less per- : manently disabled or weakened It is j perhaps, impossible to number the in- , fants m the second class, but those in the nrst division amount to alarming | fcgures. For the decade ending 1915 I New South Wales alone lost 35,000 in- ; iants who did not survive the first anniversary of their birth. In the whole i Commonwealth during the ten years j ending 1915 upwards of 90,000 infants I ™ t^ °, ne year were lost- Sir Charles ■ MacKellar, an eminent New South Wales authority, states that, in his j opinion, 50,000 of these precious lives .. could and should have been saved. This [ loss of valuable lives goes on year in iand year out. The principal causes have been emphasised by medical men i over and over again—insanitation, over- ; crowding, dirt, bad air. incompetent i midwifery, or absence of obstetric services at birth, interference with natural processes, ignorance of mothers who have never had any specific training to fit them for intelligent maternity and last, but not least, insufficient nourishment with oure milk and right food. 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Tin* seci-etar- of the Auroa Guild asks us to state that in the list of •donations, that of Mrs Whitcome should have read a s £1, instead of 10s ihe "Ixuild will be very grateful for donations of any kind towards a comfort box which they hope to send I away early in June. The Mayor is advised that a number ot returned men will leave Wellington ior Laranaki on Saturday next by mail tram. They are as follows: For Kaponga Private Briggs; Stratford, Priyato _ Colling wood; Manaia, Private Mourie; Ngaere, Private Moss; Riverlea, Privates Quinn and Silby; Opunake, Private Sievright; Eltham, Private Storry; Hawera, Private Theobald ; Normanby, Private Thompson.