TOWN AND COUNTRY.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXVII, Issue 17263, 2 September 1916, Page 8

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

New Zealand’s Government expects that every mail of military age will do his duty under the Military Service Act between now and September 16. Tho law provides that men who are not registered under the National Registration Act of last year must enrol by September 16. aud that men who are already registered must in- , form- tho Government Statistician if they have changed their abode since registration. Neglect to report such a change may make tho Reservist liable to a charge of desertion. Tho authorities ato giving Reservists all possible encouragement and facilities (at any and every post office) to' do their duty voluntarily, hut it is important for men to remember that tho Act provides heavy penalties for a breach. In every caso under tho Act onus of proof is on tho defendant. A plea of ignoranco will not be available as an excuse, because elaborate precautions are being taken, by posters, placards and lantern slides, advertisements and other statements in the Press, to explain the position thoroughly. The auction advertisement of Dalgety and Company, Ltd., will be found on page 15. The question of employing returned soldiers was discussed at a conference yesterday between tho executive of the Canterbury Employers’ Association and a committee consisting of members of tlvo Trades and Labour Council and the Citizens’ Defence Corps. After discussion, tlie Employers’ Association decided to bo represented on the committee, and appointed threo members as ita representatives. flatulence, sleeplessness, nervousness disappear if you “Ask Loasby about*it-” Adults 3s 6d, children 28. “ Prompt, Efficient, Economical.— This is the kind of service you get in Customs, Shipping and Forwarding Work by making use of J- M. Heywood and Coy., Ltd., Manchester Street, near Clock Tower.”- a

Th© Otago Cricket Association has terminated the engagement of J. N. Crawford, the coach. Poor gates, orving to the war and depleted revenues, caused a settlement to bo arrived at tor tlio cancellation of his contract, which had still a year to run. At the Red Cross concept at Knox Church ou Thursday evening Mr A. H. G. Rhodes gave some interesting: information as to tho value oT the Red Cross movement which, lie gained as an outcome of a recent visit to London. lie congratulated tho St Albans branch on having raised over £llOO in a short tiino and warmly eulogised tho labours of tho band of workers who had done so much for the sake of wounded soldiers. The largo gathering that evening, ho said, was highly creditablo to tho branch.

Colonel Chaffey, officer commanding the Canterbury military district, left for Birdung’s Flat yesterday .to inspect tho Territorials of tho Canterbury Defence Forces who went into camp there on Wednesday, under the group area officer, Lieutenant ,Livingstono. The camp is for all Territorials of tho Coast Defence Forces who are outside the central area and who do not attend weekly drills. Colonel Chaffey will proceed to Kaikoura next week to inspect the B Squadron, 10th Nelson Mounted Regiment, which is now undergoing the annual training course under the direction of Major Allison. >

At a meeting of sheep shearing contractors held in Christchurch on Wednesday twenty-four contractors wore represented, either personally or by proxy, including co-operative sheds and tho owners of travelling shearing plants. It was agreed to lix tho rate for the coming season at 3os per 100 for shearing on the "farm with a portable shearing plant, and a scale of charges for co-operative and other contract sheds, where shedwork'and cooking aro included in the contract, at rates ranging from £3 2b 6d per 100 in sleds employing four shearers to £2 13s 6d in large sheds, where twenty or more shearers are employed. Tho shod rates were passed subject to confirmation by the directors of the various companies interested. It was reported that there aro over sixty shearing contractors operating in Canterbury, and this form of shearing is becoming increasingly popular. During the visit of the GovernorGeneral of Australia to tho White City, Enoggera Camp, Brisbane, recently he observed a set of Swedish bars, and challenged Mr Page, M.H.R., to an endurance test. His Excellency stipulated at the outset that Mi- Pago must be able to draw himself up six times in succession. The Governor-General performed tho feat with comparative ease, to tho astonishment of a group of “ Dungarees ” present. Mr Page followed, and after a tremendous effort succeeded. Ho was on the point .of collapsing as he rose triumphantly for tho sixth time. It was a-mighty trial. The burly member, was compensated for tho display of energy.by tho plaudits of the- crowd, Brigadier-General Lee declared the contest a draw. Mr Page theii challenged his Excellency -to a Bhootiug contest. The Governor-Gen-eral scored 42 out of a possible 60, and Mr Page registered 48, amidst tremendous applause. Mr Redmond recently received a. long letter from Mr Lloyd George, reviewing the work of tho Ministry of Munitions in Ireland since the establishment of the Ministry in Dublin in the middle of August, 1915. Contracts have been placed in fourteen cities and towns in the south-and west alone, with about forty-five private firms, apart from railway companies, for one and a half million shells, fuses and components, and considerably over one million ammunition boxes. The total expenditure involved up to date, including national factory buildings and machinery, exceeds £BOO,OOO “Itis of interestto note,” writes the Minister, “that from the first national factory an output was sustained during the recent disturbance, thanks to the loyalty and tho devotion of tho employees, who, at considerable personal risk, carried on when practically every other business was at a riandstill.” Mr Lloyd Georg© adds that the total value of the direct War Office contracts placed in Ireland from the outbreak of war to May, 1916. including tho value of materials supplied, amounts to £4,350,666. Ho expressed the liopo that industrial Ireland would profit from tho stimulus thus given. Tho late Mr Martin Kennedy, of Wellington, left tho sum of £SO -a year for thirty years to tho Mount Mng•dala Home, Christchurch. On the same conditions, ho left sums to the following institutions in New Zealand: —£so, St Vincent do Paul Society, Wellington, in aid of the charitable purposes of such society : £25, building fund of the Wellington Roman Catholic Cathedral, “ when tho same shall be built for the celebration of masses for the repose of souls of myself -and my wife, and any members of my family who shall bo dead ” ; £25 for masses for himself and wife and family at the Basilica, Hill Street, Wellington ; £25 to the Church of St Mary of the Angels for tlio same purpose; £SO t-c* tho Superioress of the. Convent of Mercy, Wellington, for. tho education of deserving poor pupils; £25 to the Catholic Orphanage at Upper Hutt, “ upon the condition that such orphanage shall comply with; the condition expressed in the will of my _ wife that such orphanage should at times, if required so to do, maintain at least two destitute children from tho Home of Compassion founded by the Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert.” He also left tho' sum of £IOOO to the Home of Compassion at Island Bay, founded by Mother Mary Joseph Aubert.

Speaking under tho auspices of the United Workers at the National Economy Exhibition in July, Sir George Paish dealt witji “Our Financial Resources.” In the first eight months of tho war, he said, tho nation provided £500,000,000, and provided it so easily that no one seemed to think about it. In tho uext twelve months the nation provided nearly £1,600,000,000. This again was done very easily; but this year we had to find at least £1,800,000,000, and possibly £2,000,000,000, and the task had becomo increasingly difficult. But the problem, of finding £1,800,000,000 was not so difficult as it would be if it had to be found out of a normal income of £2,400,000,000. During the war, owing to the rise in prices and other causes, the nation’s income had been substantially increased, and at the present time the income was well over £3,000,000,000. If only everyone would work as he had never worked before the problem of finding the necessary money could he solved. Britain as a nation was already doing more than had ever been done before in any war. Tt was the banker of the Allies. It would probably lend them between £450,000.000 and £600,000,000 in tho course of the current year. These things it had expected to do before the war began, hut it was in addition maintaining a very great Army; and what it was doing was being achieved in face of the fact that the greater part of the malo population had been taken from industry. - “Tho Glory of the Garden,” Bradbury’s Gold Medal Sweet l’eas, in 120 varieties, for present sowing* are now on sale at Messrs Hastio, Bull and Pickering’s, Cashel Street. Catalogue with instructions for growing free on application.” HI If you want an Electric Motor, buy a “British Westiugbouse,” made by British workmen, backed by British capital. Turnbull and Jones, Ltd., New Zealand agents, 1898

The total quantity of butter in cool store on August was 30,926 boxes compared with 15,500 boxes last year and 17,146 in the previous year.

A trial of boys’ voices will bo held at the Cathedral on Wednesday, September 13, for. tho purpose of selecting boys to fill four or moro vacant choir scholarships. Tho successful candidates will hold free scholarships at ’ Christ’s College and will also bo given a sound musical training.

Speaking at the monthly mooting of the Ashburton County Couucil yesterday when the question of sign-boards was being discussed, the chairman (Mr C J. Harper) said that it was almost impossiblo to put up a notice-board to stand for any reasonable time. Notice boards appeared to offer great attractions to alleged -sportsmen, who took a keen delight in peppering them with shot, with tho result that the lettering had been utterly obliterated.

Miss Ethel R. Die roe, teacher at the Hurumii School, has forwarded to the “Lyttelton Times” office a donation of £1 2s 6d for the Violet Day Fund. In tho accompanying letter the writer says:—“Not being able to get tho violets from my home to tho railway station, as Hnrunui is rather out of the way, l toqk.it upon my3elf to dispose of tlio flowers. The school children and residents rose to the occasion, with the enclosed result-.”

Complaints have been made in Christchurch that gramophones provided for tlio training camps were commandeered by officers of the Headquarters Staff. The Mayor has inquired into the statements. He has received a full reply from tho Minister of. Defence and is convinced that the distribution of the gramophones is quite satisfactory. By the arrangement followed every man has an opportunity to hear the instruments, which have (not been allocated to certain hutments.^ Tho doll offered ih connection with tlio “Violet Day” appeal has been secured by the children’s ward of the Christchurch Hospital. The doll was presented by Mrs D’Oyley, and competitors had to guess its name, being told only that the name, was that of one of the best known ladies in Canterbury. Only two competitors correctly guessed that the name was “Miss Mabel Rutherford,” these being Mrs Lawrie and tlie “ Children's Ward.” Mrs Lawrie withdrew her claim in favour of the children.

Very satisfactory, though, somewhat slow, progress is being made with the Lyttelton-Sumuer road deviation.. In the very steep places where blasting is in operation large quantities of rock have come down the In'll, and lodged in the flax bushes below or gone into tho sea. Mr J. M’Combs, M.P., paid a visit of inspection on Thursday, and found that therri were twenty men working near the top of the road. The work is being reserved for married men and for recruits who are waiting to be called up. Most of |ho work is being done by co-operative! contract labour, but a small portion of the work, where - the face will be 100 feet high,- will probably be done by day labour. Mr M’Combs visited the Public Works Office on his return, and found that- all of the men are to receive the .10 per cent war bonus, which will be paid as from July 1. In the “Wairarnpa Age” appears an extract from a letter written to a friend by Nurse Jones, formerly district- nurse there, but now on duty in the Rawal Pindi Field Hospital in Mesopotamia. It runs as follows: — “ Hero I am in this hot place. It was my own fault, of course, We all offered to come up here, be had to pass a very stiff medical examination. It was hot in the Persian Gulf, and to make things worse we had to wait nearly a week for a boat to .take ns up the river. We have been hero three weeks, and already some of the sisters are sick and off duty. -But, thank gooduess, I am very fit. The cooler weather starts in September, so that is a bright- star ahead. We aro not allowed out alone, even for a short distance. The Arabs in this part, are not to be trusted. Tho Tigris flows past the hospital - , and we see all that goes on. Tlio troops go up in the river boats and the sick and wounded come down to us, and later ou aro sent on to Basra and Bombay. There are very few colonials here, “about a dozen altogether, and they are attached' to the Wireless Corps, further up tlio river.”

Mr Godfrey Isaacs presiding at the annual meeting of the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company, at London, on June 30, said that Mr Marconi’s invention of a simple installation to put an end to all danger of collision at sea in darkness or in fog represented but a part of his latest work. His new inventions would prove as epochmaking in the progress of the art of wireless telegraphy as was, iu 1900, the new world-famous patent known as the four sevens. Since informing him that his research work in Italy ns regarded the future practice* of the entire science of wireless telegraphy and wireless telephony over both long and short distances would give results hitherto impossible, Mr Marconi bad visited London and described to him the nature of his new work. Mr Isaacs expressed thc> liopo that it would bo a long time before the details of the inventions were made public. “Hie longer it remains where it is,” he added, “ tho better for us and the worse for Germany.” A shareholder observed that, probably Mr, Isaacs'lips were sealed about the new inventions bv tlio Defence of the Realm Act. “' But those who Watch the papers,’ lie added, “can see that the premium for war risks for shipping lias decreased by two-thirds. We don't know what the reason is, but there it is.”

In his report on imports for 1914-15, Mr W. G. Wickham, late Imperial Trade Commissioner in New Zealand, says:—“The import of field glasses, shown separatelv for the first time -his year, was only £2261, but, in spite of a 10 per cent, advantage in duty over foreign makes, the share from United Kingdom makers was only £414. Germany supplied twice this amount and France slightly more. Thero are two reasons known to me as accounting for this state of things; one is the fact that importers have pushed tho quality of their purchase almost down to Vanishing point; the other is the bad method of ralo of British makers. Several have confined their makes to single retail jewellers, apparently without even any compensating stipulation that the retailer should confine himself to their make, '[here am not many firms in New Zealand specialising in optical and scientific instruments, but there are enough to make it ridiculous to appoint retail silversmiths and jewellers as sole agents. There is little or no advertising of British makes niid certainly no attempt to make known the superior merits of British field glasses. There is a. widespread belief current hero that British makers in this line have been quite left behind in competition, as regards quality.” Be photographed .at .vour own home by Steffano V\ ebb. Skilled operators sent to any address. Petersen’s Buildings, High Street. X 3 In view of tho fact that an Aviation, School is to he established in Canterbury the fine range of Model Aeroplanes shown by John R,. Proctor, of 200, High Street, will arouse considerable, interest, especially among boys. These splendid little ’planes may be had from as low as os 6d each. IP The best only in Garden Tools, Spades, Rakes, ‘ Hoes, Forks, Lawn Mowers, besides many useful tools not stocked elsewhere. Ibices always well trimmed at Lewis and Anderson, Ltd., Cashel Street. 1898

There is a State-aided school .at Pencarrow for the benefit of the Tain- j ily of the light-keeper there. The; Wellington Education Board, givea a subsidy, and the light-keeper has to find the balance required to make uptho salary of a teacher for his children. Ho lias lately made application to the hoard that he sliould.be relieved of this expense, and the board forwarded the Jotter to the Department, The reply was that tho keeperwas a servant of tlio Marino Departmetit, and that tho Education Department refused to make any allowance. The board decided to make a strong recommendation to the Government to the effect that men performing im r portant service such as that rendered by light-keepers should he freed from liability for tho education of their families. . - . -- v Tlio firs,t conviction undor the new War Regulations relating to the social evil was recorded in Wellington on Wednesday, a woman being sentenced to two months’ imprisonment on * charge of having loitered in a public place for an immoral purpose. The powers possessed by the police under the regulations are much wid’er than ' the powers provided under the old law, and the “Dominion” states that steps are being taken .with the object or “cleaning up’’ Wellington, in the interests of soldiers and civilians alike. A person who has been convicted under the War Regulations of leading an immoral life is liable, after a term of imprisonment, to be prohibited from residing within fifty miles of Wellington or any other eentr-e named in an order issued by the Commissioner of Police. Owners of premises used for immoral purposes are liablo to penalties under tire War Regulations. I'lie powers of prosecution conferred upon tue police in this direction arc new, aud it is understood that some landlords are already, taking steps to protect themselves against tenants whose' undesirable manner .of living had not previously caused them anxiety. The police are giving warnings where they appear to be required.' A quotation from the “Bach© Review,” a weekly financial periodical published in New York, shows the opinion held there of Germany’s prospects in the war. The following appeared on June 10:—“Wall Street contemplates philosophically the re-‘ ' suits achieved by Germany from a military point of -view. . . . . The task of destruction was too great even foe perfectly organised' Germany, and the ring was soon completed to. surround her and to hold her partially until pregaration could b© built up. Wall treet is convinced that such power-; ful drives and lunges as she has made, have been ineffectual to break the chain; that she is like a great and powerful wolf in an iron cage, which clashes first to one side and then to tfie other, causing much damage, bending but not breaking the bars, and after each desperate assault it is found that the iron is still relentlessly sur-j rounding her.. The later reports have; demonstrated that of such a character of energetic assault was tho dash in the North Sea; and as it was disclosed, gradually that the German losses might actually bo greater than the British, and that the latter were, sis before, in. complete possession of the seas, the market fully recovered here.” 1 - l

The first annual report of the. Wellington Soldiers’ Club states that- the work carried on lias been one of continual growth, and the club’s activities, have been manifold. It began in a •very modest way, the rooms in . Sydney Street being open for only a few hours c" ;h evening. As its usefulness increased the committee engaged the rooms for the whole of -each week-day, and the - club was then available for soldiers from 10 a.m.' On Sundays tho work used to begin at four in the; afternoon, and gradually tho club comej to receive at 10 a.m., and on! certain Sundays soldiers returning from leave by early boat and train have been welcomed, warmed: and-j,fed: i -as early as 7 a.m. From somewhat bare and sparsely furnished rooms the club has advanced, to thoroughly well appointed premises. The maiu hall now presents tho appearance of a spacious and comfortable lounge, and the writing room is a cosy little apartment; both are rendered specially cheery in winter by blazing fires. An atmosphere of simple homeliness pervades the rooms and it is gratifying to the officials to see .the soldiers using it as a> familiar resting place. The committee has been much cheered at expressions of appreciation from many sources. Letters have been received from soldiers after leaving New Zealand, and the walls of the club have often 'resounded to the cheers 1 of citizen soldiers on the eve of setting out for the war. Visitors from all parts of the Dominion, have expressed' appreciation of the social work done. -

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