Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JUNE 5, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Lake County Press, Issue 2788, 5 June 1919, Page 4

Lake County Press. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY The trust thats given thee guard, and to thyself be just. ARROWTOWN, JUNE 5, 1919. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Lake County Council meets at Queens town on Wednesday next. There will be a sitting of the Magristrate's and Warden's Court at Arrowtown on Tuesday next at 2.30 p.m. The shooting season for pukaki will close on July 31st. The season for paradise ducks closed on Saturday last. The annual meeting of the Wakatipu Licensing Committee will take place in the Queenstown Courthouse next Tuesday at noon. Mr T. J. Cotter, auctioneer, will hold a clearing sale of furniture and effects at Arrowtown on Saturday next on account of Mr J. W. Powley. Mr. J. Forbes, secretary of the Reception Committee, acknowledges receipt of the following donation for the Medal Fund : Mrs Johnston (Central Hotel), JBI. It is rumoured that the working test of the Westinghouse brake taken from the engine derailed on the Main Trunk line last week was not so satisfactory as was anticipated. Five teams took part in the seven a-side football tournament at Queenstown on Tuesday, viz., Queenstown (2), Cromwell Country Pirates, and Arrow. Cromwell won. There was no junior competition. The Education Board on Friday decided that those school districts that failed to elect committees on the statutory date shall be given an opportunity to remedy the omission on July 7. The German Foreign Office has categorically declined to sign the peace treaty. Count Rantzau 6aid to his colleagues : " Tell Britain I will never sign peace preliminaries till they are seriously modified. Someone else may sign but I won't." The local footballers showed practical sympathy and thoughtfulness in connection with the accident which befel Bert Farrant. A subscription list was at once opened, and a substantial cheque has already been sent to Mrs Farrant, the young man's mother. On Wednesday next Mr T. J. Cotter, auctioneer, will hold a sale of the furniture and effects of the Rev. R. C. Hunter, who is proceeding to Great Britain at the end of next month. Mr Cotter assures residents of the district that he can with confidence recommend the whole of these household articles, as they are of modern design and comparatively new. There was a large attendance in the Atheneum Hall last evening when the picture exhibition in connection with St. John's Church was given. The views were well shown by Mr H. Tomkies, and were most interesting. They were interspersed with illustrated songs, and these were reudered in a most pleasing manner by St. John's choir. Altogether the entertainment was one greatly appreciated by those present. At the conclusion Rev. J. Rattiay thanked the people for the liberal patronage and Mr Tomkies for his kind assistance. A Masterton soldier who was all through the Gallipoli campaign gave an illustration of the methods of the Hun even towards bis allies. During the fighting at Gallipoli the soldier was on a vessel in the bay, and the Turks were sheiling it. One shell burst above the steamer. In ordinary circumstances probably thirty or forty men would have been killed. The shell, however, centained nothing but rubbish of a harmless character, including decomposed potato peels. Pieces of similar shells secured later from other Turkish artillerying efforts showed that the shells had been sold by Uermany tf> Turkey aome years before the war.

The Hon (i, M. Thomson having declared that water divining is all moonshine, Mr George Smith, of Gisborne, a water diviner, challenges for £SO to indicate where rnnning water is to be found, the test to take place in Gisborne. Sir James Allen informed Mr H. G. Ell. M.P., last week, that every soldiers' cemetery in Europe will have a permanent caretaker and will be properly attended to. The New Zealand Government has paid the sum of £28,000 towards the Empire's cost of maintaining the graves. Referring to the difficulties of transport, during the course of his reply to the Arthurs Pass Tunnel League's deputation, the Hon. W. D. S. Macdonald said that iron for the Public Works DepartmAt was held up in Australia, also 40,000 telegraph poles. For the transport of 2,000,000 bushels of wheat bought by this department there was only one ship available at present. The recent industrial agreement between the employers and the employees in the freezing works and related trades throughout New Zealand is stated to involve a total annual increase in wages of about .£IOO,OOO. The agreement is for two years and will come into operation on August 31, but the new rates of pay date back to April " None of the soldiers who have com* back want to be called heroes, and they don.t want their gratuities, or 'blood money' as fchoy call it, until the allowances to wivea and children are made absolutely retrospective," said Mr B. Jacobs at the .Returned Soldiers, Conference. "If the Government offer us a decent gratuity after they have paid these allowances, it will, of course, be very thankfully received, bnt we want to see justice done to the wives and children first." The Executive Committee of the New Zealand Counties' Association has decided to convene a conference of the county councils at a (date dnring next Parliamentary session. The exact date of the conference will be fixed when the date of the session is finally known. The question of the control of the main arterial roads of the country was discussed at a recent meeting of the executive, and the scheme of the road oontrol in Victoria was also considered. In order to be able to secure for the conference the report of the Victorian system, both from the point of view of the State and the local authorities, it was arranged that the president of the association should visit Victoria for the purpose of investigating the country road boards' system in operation in Victoria, Major Pickeriil, seen by a reporter in Dunedin, cleared up the question that has been asked several times lately, as to why the wounded soldiers who are under treat* for facial restoration were given leave on returning to the Dominion instead of going at once to the Woodside a uxiliary in Clyde street. The major says that these patients are not so badly deformed as to be forced into seclusion to save ihein from being seen. Ihey were all under treatment at Sidcup, in England, and there underwent the earlier operations, and as a result they can get about, some with their faces partially bandaged. In each case a series of operations was necessary—in some as many as half a dozen—and every man has to wait for a certain amount of healing before submitting to the next operation. The whole period in the worst cases may extend to a couple of years. Meanwhile, between the operations the men may have certain amount of liberty, and as he did not know, wnilst on the way out with the men, what the arrangements here exactly were, aad as ho had to work to some definite plan, he fixed it up on the ship that each patient should have leave as soon as he arriv.d, and he prepared them for it accordingly. The major added, in answer to a.direct question, that he has no doubt of a complete restoration in every case. No failuro has yet been recorded.