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Mataura Ensign, 23 March 1918, Page 4

The Southland League is losing no opportunity of enlisting support for its proposed hydro-electric scheme, and yesterday Hon. G..W. Bussell, Minister for Health and Public Affairs, had the proposal explained to him and promised his hearty support, at any r*4jt as far as tin* preliminaries leading to getting i scheme in train were concerned. The Southland Education' Board hits decided to nominate. Air J. C. Thomson. M.P.. one of its members, for one, of the two seats on the Education Council, open to nominees of South Island Education Boards. .Nominations for these positions do not close until April 33. and if tin election is necessary, South Island Education Board members will -.ole on May 13. At the Education Board meeting a't Invercargill yesterday Mr Niven moved that, "This Hoard notes with satislac- - ion that the Council ol Dd neat ion re■ommends that the salaries ( >l pupil teachers he not less than those paid 4e entrants Lo the Public Service, ami L of opinion t hat the recommendation dumb! he given effort to beloi'e tin next annual appointments are due to lx mafic.” The motion was nnanimonsb ■upported. members agreeing Unit it was hopeless to expect hoys to enter ) bleaching profession in Anew ot the premit woefully low salaries offered whet’ <omany mores- i miiinicraf i’ac aAmnm.-s o ■ imniv more remunerative uv■iiues of employment were tiAttildde. ft, was stated by Afr Nia -it that out. of 30 pupil teacher ■t present in the Board's sm-A ice. oiil.a ive were males, and out of 37 oroha- ■ ..loners only six Averc male-. Thereon- out of 57'. , who would he staffiing Mini Ida nd’s schools, in the future, there • Wen- on Iv- If male teachers.

/In time to come/' said Mr S. E. i Mt'Garthy, S.M., To a parent tv ho was I ailed to the .Juvenile Court in Wei- ' mjflim to explain why lie hud not sent I iis child to school, "many children in i i tew /a aland will rise and curse their j I parents fur neglecting to give them a it ;uod education and so lit them for civic i od oilu'r responsibilities.” hj

The solitary occupant of the letuna laori [ia. near Lake M aikaremoaua,

.hick was visited hy the Parliamentary party, was a deaf and feeble woman, anything between the ages of 60 and I(X) years. Mie is mile- away from any ither hahiiation, lias never seen a trap r a train, and is the last ot her tribe.

A soldier and a civilian commenced o discuss the increased cost of living it Ashburton on Wednesday, and this Miming topic developed into an ex> eedingly warm argument, resulting in .he civilian finishing up with a broken nose. Both parties then visited . the online station, and settled further arguuetit hy shaking hands.

In the course of Ids address to the .Yorkers’ Educational Association at fimaru. Air H. I). Acland said that vhen he was in Denmark a few years igo he made inquiries, 'into tin* class jf students who were taking the course at an agricultural high school. He sold that one of the pupils was “a ittlo hoy of 72, who was accompanied >v a small girl of (59 who had been his wife for over -10 years.”

It. was mentioned at the sitting ot lie Military Service Board at Palmerton last week bv the chairman (Mr D. G. A. Cooper. S.M.) that the Board had had before it a case in which a ady and her husband had milked 67 •ows (says the ‘Standard.’) Lniortvinately. the husband had had an "argument” with a .'hull, and at present the ady was carrying on ' the work with onlv the help of a youth.

The vagaries of Wednesday s gale in-, eluded an incident which sounds almost incredible bub is nevertheless true (savs ; the Christchurch ‘Press’). At the cor- | tier of Colombo Street and Moorlmuse V venue a man’s hat blew oil; it was car- | '•it'd along by the wind right- past a parsing tram, and a youth who was a passenger reached out and caught it. Ihe Mvncr of the hat was miming after the tram, and the catcher leaned out anil •etched the hat towards the man, whd was some distance behind. Ihe gale sent the hat spinning along in the airy cowards its owner, who made a leap and caught it in his left hand, Ihe muehiraveiled hat had actually gone lOOvds or so in Urn air ami never once touched earth.

A l ift blue pointer shark, caught in the State trawler Koraaga’s trawl on a recent Sunday afternoon (states the ■syiluey ‘Sun’) was found, to have in its belly a partly-digested straw hat. the •over of a hook, which was reduced to -olt cardboard, and a piece of cloth ■ml a spinal bone, whether human or lot is not yet known. The contents ,f the hook had been entirely absorbed bv tin' shark, although there was no •videuce that it got any intellectual enioyment out oi it. No trace of title or uirhor’s name remained on the residue if the cover. The hat. however, was a a good state of preservation. I lie ■lame of the shop at which it was bought—Lasker ami Lasker —was easily readable in the lining, and tin' gilt markings on the leather hand. Then; was no size mark and no indication ol the name of the on oer. II was an ordinary straw hat with a plain black baud.

A visit or to the 1\ I odc'l harm at Stratford recently passed some casual remark about a Cambridge roller that be noticed on the right-of-way. “llie verv best implement, on the farm,’ replied Mr Deem, of the Agricultural Department. ."Every Taranaki farmer should have a* good Cambridge roller it Im has nothing else.” Continuing, .Mr Deem pointed out that* be b’U very strongly on llie necessity tor plenty d rolling, and said that the land on this farm, where the crops were now. Avas rolled a week after ploughing, and was none over two or three times to put Hie soil down firmly and have everything buried-. This part ieuUfct port ion bad "'only been stumped siivKe last August, but it looked as though ,d might have been turned up a couple of "years ago. The machinery they bad at, the farm included a Cambridge roller. drill, disc, plough, set of harrows, and a manure spreader. 'lhey found that the tripods worked better ■ban llie tine barrows in this light •euntry. The tripods rolled all the grass, etc., along the surface, but tin* tines'went down and dug up .the buried grass. Mr Caldwell, ot Messrs Alackl', Logan, Caldwell, Ltd., of Auckland, has -em-ived a letter-from flume, which incidentally relates the experiences of a British war prisoner in Germany. Ibe letter states:-—“AVe bad a visit yesterday from ■ Lieutenant , who used to be in A Squadron, 8.E.C., and who was shot clown and made prisoner 10 months fl! jro. He has been and reached England with scum' hundreds of others all disabled men who have been repatriated, fie has lost his left - arm from the shoulder. He wa> surrounded by 15 machines the day he was shot down near Dons. He was very badly treated, and had no Ipod for several days, and lie is certain with care-his arm could have* been saved, bur, they removed it. and then the same night moved him on a rough journey to another camp, fie never saw a nurse, hut was attended by an Australian prisoner. All the. bandages he bad were paper, ami be hardly''ever saw a doc tor. He says the poorer classes in Germany are starving, the 1 children looked pinched and white l , and only wealthy people can procure proper food. He and others who had money bought a goose one day, and it cost, them L‘l3. Another dav a dinner for a few of them cost C 33."

Charged Avi;h failing to enrol under tin* Military Service- Act. Edwin El-om delivered a. long dissertation on'bis reI Lyons beliefs to Mr T. A. If. Bailee, S.M., at the Christchurch Magistrate’s Court. There Avas a time*, be* said, aa ben he Avas found on racecourses, in theatreand in hotels, hut some- years ago he had ho-onie a Christian and sim-e then had devoted his life ami ail the prei-m-ds of his 'business to Jesus Christ. When ibe war broke out be* asked counsel God as to Ids position, and ria- words name through flu- Holv Ghosr. "A*- <-annot, serve God and Mammon.” He aanot to follow any unconverted politician -r nncoiiAerled editor of a neAVspaper Mi- life, body, soul, spirit, means and

everything belonged to the King o' Kings. Senior-Sergeant Cnmming said •hat no doubt the man \a:is a relidoiis objector, hut no man could be nermitred to doth the law. He av.-is a mar-d-d man with three children, and tin Government Statistician had said that

her*' Avonld he no possibility of his be■Dg called tip before September. Bv

del. time tin- aeeiised would In- ovei military age and therefore exemi-t from service. This had been pointed on- t<him. hut he -till declined to enrol. Tie ■ roper time to put forward his olderions to service was aftej- he had in-"-

-.died in the ballet. Eisom remarked 1 1 tit he had had it long dlm-w- dm- !■ dnod-poisoning. and would he nniie unit for service, so that it was plain his Inti- aere pnrele ri-l'ginn-. IE Wot ship; Onif.e so: bur von -rent n I’niif, to make a inai-tvr m v-mir-el f. A. ■ > ed : In Id-.- or dca jI, ( mn - * st■■ m 1 airbfnl to Je.-n- Gbri-t. IE- AVor.-bo -•nlied that mi denhv fi-rii-rflh c.mvicjou.s were to he admi’-ed. hoi neverr'---

e.-s In* must not detv the law. Hi voilld he fined C 5 iind costs. The man nho knows what t - good ,- drink and a hat is mind for him IwtiAs orders KOLA-NIP. tho lu-alth >l l t liirst-fjiimicher. fdvely, coding, atisl'yiug. Hotels and stores.

On Thursday morning the .weighbridge cabin and lamp-room at Paparoa mine was completely destroyed by (ire (slates a Gfrynumlb telegram). Man., miners' lamps were in the room, nom being saved. It is estimated that the. damage is CldO. As there is no work in rbe mine at, present the outbreak is a mysterious one.

A hawker in South Canterbury, who has been in the habit of buying up disused ploughshares and other scrap iron and disposing of it to the. loundries, met lus son a few days ago on tiie boy’s return from France in a wounded condition.. The soldier’s first greeting to his. parent was; Don t day any more serapirtm. dad; my body is lull of it.”

The bridge over the Mata lira .River at Otamita River has sobered somewhat severely as the result of the recent flood. Some of the heavy timber coming down the river has displaced the piles at the span and the comity inspector of works (Mr McLaehlan), who visited the spot this morning. lias decided to close the bridge until repairs can be effected. The structure is unsafe lot* 'heavv traffic at prcseiii-

! \t vesterdav's meeting ot the Tinlance ■Committee of tin* Southland ! County Council the following tenders •were accepted:—Black Hills .Road linear Waikaka), cuttings, banks, etc.: 'F. Mangan. £96 10s. Wyndham-Moko- | rota Road, maintenance: A. Peters, i 2s 6d. Mimihau Rond, mam- • tenance: A. Peters, £127 10s. # Ota I Creek-Brvdone. etc., roads. maintenance; dames McKay. £l3l 10s. Bushy i Park Road (Copeland’s), .metalling: L. Me Vicar, £63. Mata ura-Glondlui 'Road. widening formation':!). Lyttle, | £2od 6s Bd. Scammell and McQuillan’s 'outfall, ditching; E. d. Moylan, £BO (is (id. j The Kit ham ‘Argus' cautions tradesj men to he careful in examining bank- ; notes that pass through their hamds in the ordinary way of business. Ihe new 10s note has in more than one j.imvn been passed ns a £lO note, and t lu % siurto is boing worked iu that toivii. The other night a 10s note was 1 passed as a “tenner in an Eltham shop. Investigations were 'afterwards made, and restitution was enforced. The 10s note is much smaller than the £l() note, hut the coloring is very similar, and iu the hurry ami, hustle of .business a shop assistant might easily /make a mistake. It behoves shop assistants to carefully examine all notes tendered lo them.

W'hi'n a. woman is seen following some unusual occupation it is generally assumed Hit she is doing so to release an eligible man I’oV active service. The daughter of a resident of Black Rock. Melbourne, has been driving a carrier’s cart for the last six months in the Sandringham district, writes "Veronica” iu the ‘Sydney Morning Herald,’ not to enable an eligible to enlist, hut to relieve the sick and disabled lather of a family. Sometimes she would he seen collecting farm produce for despatch hy railway, removing furniture, or delivering parcels for householders living in adjoining suburbs. One of her daily tasks is to cart and deliver many hundredweights of wood, ehafl. or grain.' She kept the business going until her Father was strong enough to resume control. Her spare lime has been spent in knitting for soldiers. She completed 100 pairs of socks.

Wednesday was not. an ideal night ior holding a meeting in the down Hall lo make sure of a good audience : probably the bridge would have been a belter spot. Supporters of the P.P.A. attended,..however, to the number of lot). The president of (ho local branch (Air A. 3. Nichol) presided, and stirring addressewero delivered by Mr F. W. Gresham and Rev. H. B. Hughes, M.A.. president and vice-president of the Southland Centre. Mr Gresham dealt with ihe recent conference held in Well mg. on ami the future of tin* movement. Mr Hughes gave a. stirring address on’ tie principles for which the association stands—equal rights- for all and special privileges for none. Both speakers licit! the rapt attention of the audience. At the close of the meeting Rev. T. H. E - cersall moved a vote of thanks to the visitors for coming such a long distantm on such a wet night, the motion .being carried unanimously.

An in>taiico of the value of a relumed soldier’s badge, as worn by New Zealanders, was furnished by one of r.be officers who has just returned (says ■the Auckland ‘Star.’) A New Zealand officer, he stated, who had been invalided to' New Zealand and was subsequently discharged on account of his injuries, recently made a trip Horne. Among other ’places that he was desirous of seeing was the House Of Commons. He was unable to get a pass, and was standing outside the buildings debating with himself his next course of action. A 'well-dressed gentleman, noticing his badge: asked him if lie would like to go inside. He stated that lie. would, and that that was what be bad cmne there for. His newlyfound friend at once took him through the whole of the buildings, and later in the day (omul him a seat in the '■i-itors’ gallery of flu; House of Lords. While there he was asked to enter his name in a hook, that,' of his sponsor being placed opposite. Before going out again it. occurred to him (hat he would like to know the name of the gentleman who had befriended him. and lie Went back and glanced at the book. He was not a little, astonished to find that Ids unknown friend was i-lie Karl of Chesterfield.

-Mr .Joseph Hamlet, who contested i Ik; Sehvyn seat at last election, is a breezy talker and writes almost as vivaciously as lie’talks. Li a. letter to i fie ‘Sun’ he deals with the ’.eiiit distribution of cheap, tawdy icones iit ibis country. To my mind, tilled a:istor racy in New Zealand is . d,e ibe presence el a pebble in the work- > i a watch. . . . Titles in New Zeal .n 1 ace Hi (lie social organism what a pound of putiy would be in the stomach of a dyspeptic. 'They are as a in illstone slung round the neck of the giant ol civilisation. I lay it down ic; a -ate and sane proposition that tills ymirg

eeuniry lorn of our fathers - blood and sanctified by our mothers' tears should not under any circumstanees accept idles that lav the .’foundation-stone of an autocracy and bureaucracy that-ruin-ed Fiat lice some time aeo and later Idissia. . . . There is not a na i or woman south of the line who ka • dene any more fhan he or she oii/yi; to: some have efveu liberally in service

uni money, but. none have .own in to ibe point where it hurts— save those w hose sons have made Ibe sitpr "ne >-ae rifiee. . . . Nowadays we value a man by asking, wind is be worth to his ■ountry from the neck up!' Further. •as he left his country • • 11 y buffer than ne found it.-' Can these questions be mswered sttt isfaelori fv of any man in mi' recent, honor-list!-' No; not on your ■obir plexus!" .Mr Hamlet proceeds to -ay that, it he aeain speaks ill pub|ie lure will be "one plank ill my plai!orm as broad as a bonleviird iiud tis lone i- it turnpike, and It will be f.o tbe ■deer i hat we in New Zealand have tone wit-1 1 titles, and try .to make it ompnkory that the man who accepts ■ Meli most apologise with his nose in be 'and. I'd rather see my country mole a desolation for ever and a. day... 1 -. (hie; torn from the heavens, its mine erased from the mao el the world Ol'.l its people s let p: lI LC m heroes epnlehres than to see ii a mark tor ■■orn. an object for contempt. I hope lie time shall come when the human aee will he one universal brotherhood, oiitainine; neither an earl' nor a eoineoner. millionaire nor mendicant, maser nor slave. The miked truth lies in be fiiet Hud -a title is a. small reward I mediocre deeds, a thine no little man ■limib! eel, a t bine no e'l'cat man ueods.”

Monday.. April 22,, is the date for this year’s'election of school coni mittens, ns fixed by■ the (Southland JSduea.ji u: Board yesterday.

A Wellington telegram states: —The master bakers have decided to leave the price of bread to householders at lid pci- lib loaf and increase the prices to intels, restaurants and shops.

At the annual meeting of tho Catdermry A. and P. Association :i motion .vas passed protesting against the- prices ilfered by 'the Government for wheat, he returns from which compared very mfavorably with the. returns from neat, wool, and butter fat.

An application from an Kdomlale parent to have bis four children exunpted from attendance at school as. m account of their backwardness, he .vished to have them taught at home by i governess, came before the Southand Kducation Boat'd yesterday. It .vas decided to point out to the appli•ant that he must satisfy the. district a-bool. committee that the standard ot nstruetion proposed to be given at homo would be equal, to that given in ho ordinary school.

Speaking at the opening of St. Helen’s Maternity Home at Invercargill Hon. "G. Mb Russell emphasised New Zealand's great need for population. Complimenting Southland upon the strung and virile race, which.her climate produced, he.gavo.it out that it was lown here, that the St. Helen’s system should be extended. In this and perhaps in time -other southern homes he imped there would-be born many who would grow up leading honorable, good, f’hristian lives, and wlto might live to be among the greatest in the race iroin which they came.

JL’ho Education Department grants ol “conveyance'’ allowances in the (rase- ol children at a distance from schools is lor some reason limited in its application. The “conveyance” must he a wheeled vehicle and when then* is but one child in a family it is obvious that, a horse or a cycle would often meet the case. One board wants the order ol reference" to include motor launches. The Soul Ida ml Education Hoard yesterday passed a resolution which alter iminting out. -that hackhlock roads in the district are often not suited ior wheeled traffic suggested that the regulation ho extended to cover either cycle, horseback or vehicle as the means of convevanco.

The official opening of tin* St. Helen's Maternity Home at Invercargill was performed hy Ho if. G. W. Bussell, .Minister for Puhlie Health, yesterday. In the course of his remarks the Minister said that not long ago he had ohtfiined from the Government Statistician a statement of what the population of .New Zealand would have been to-day it the birth-rate of 1886 had been maintained, and this, showed that the population of the Dhminion to-day would have hern 110,000 more than it is. Thus they would have the whole of thy population which they had sent away to the war and he 10,000 to thy good. It was realised that if the birth-rate was to be increased there must be more comfort for and less cost to the mothers. He hoped that the time was not far distant- when the Government of New Zealand would establish its own medical service so that no man. woman or child need suffer through inability to pay for medical attention. That was one of In’s dreams which he hoped to see fullilled in the future. This St. Helen’s Hospital was entirely a State institu(ion. It was governed from Wellington and was not under the control of the local Hospital Board. If mothers came a week before the critical event took place they were charged T1 only for hoard and residence. After their chilli was born, they were charged -Cl 10s per week for the two weeks which was the average' stay; so that the total '■o.-.i *.. • parents for medical services, for nursing—for everything-—Came out at only CO. or ,CJ if the mother came in a neck before. That was a distinct reduction on the cost to parents. The privilege was limited, though, to mothers whose husbands were earning ' per week or less. If they took in the wives’ of, men in a better position than that:, they looked to them to pay lees equal to (hose charged in private homes.

The nighls am getting cold and yon want warmth. Down and Kapok Quilts am the necessary applications when the cold starts to creep’ in. In these quilts Thomson and Beattie have a reputation for smartness in design and color, while prices are much below value. Kapok Quilts from 10s Gel. Dowii Quilts from 32s Od to 755.

Arrived to-day from Ireland and Scotland a consignment of Pure Linen Hoods. These comprise Forfar, Brown Holland, Dowlas. Damasks and Toweling. 'The above arc stamped all pdre linen. Dowlas, 30 ; n Wide, 2s 9d . and 3s 3d; Brown Holland, 32in. wide. Is lid and 2s 3d: 10in. wide Turkish Toweling, 2s fid; also large shipment of Lnion ’Linens, pure snow white Table Damasks. 52in. wide, Is lid and 2s lid ; Alin.. 2s lid arid 3s Od; 58in. 2s Od and 2s lid; 85in. 3s lid. and 5s lid : 29m. Forfar, Is (id: 31 in. Dowlas, Is Od: 30in.. Dowlas, Ls 9d. Two bales Belgian • Ticking, exceptionally well bought, 58in. 2s Od, 3s Gd. 3s 9d and 4s Od per yard. Turkish Roller 'Toweling. loin, wide, dark grounds and good weight marked to sell at our usual low prices. Is. Is Id and Is Od. See Manchester Department at H- and H. Smith’s. Ltd., 'The Progressive Drapery Stoic, .Main Street, ’Phone, 131.

Purse found. Heriot Rath Fair on April 10. He riot slock salt' on April 3. Tapanui stock sale on March 28. Otamita bridge closed for traffic. Meeting. Band of .Mercy, Monday. Further entries for Core stock sale. “ (,'onliision,” 'Theatre Royal, Monday. Pictures. .Princess 'Theatre, to-night. Nurse Kvery visits Mataura on March

L'(i. Clearine sal* l near Kelso on Wednesday. Commercial linns notify Faster lioliil ay s. Fisk .Jubilee Sineers, Mataura, Wednesday. Church services for to-morrow announced. ('•rockery for kitchen or dm iiie-ronm at tile Federal. Claims re estate of K. (>. M. Morris to be rendered. Hank holidays on .March 2d and AO and April 1 and if. M iss A. Cruiekshauk starts dressmaking on April A. (.'tided Tradiny Company iiolds stocks of milkine machines. Meetimr (tore Starr-lhiwketi IluddMie Society on .Mondaw Wrield. Stephenson and Co. for leading brands of sheen dip.