NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY With which is incorporated the NORTHERN MAIL DAILY. SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Northern Advocate, 8 June 1918, Page 2

NORTHERN ADVOCATE DAILY With which is incorporated the NORTHERN MAIL DAILY.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Registered for transmission through the post as a newspaper.

Intending exhibitors are reminded that entries close for the Winter Show at 10 o'clock to-night at Mr W. A. Parker's office. A notice of motion, standing in the name of Mr J. Lawrie (president), aims at reducing the life-membership subscription to the Whangarei Acclimatisation Society from £5 5/ to £2 2/. In a previous report the words "per annum" were inadvert- ■ ently tagged on to the latter amount. ! Before Major Clark-Walker and ( Mr C. H. Chissell, J.'sP., yesterday ' morning, there was a preliminary , hearing in the case of D. E. Campbell, contractor, Whangarei, v. Har_ld Millington, farmer, Maunu. The :laim was for £20 10s, balance al- j ieged to be due for work done and moneys paid, and the preliminary _ rearing was for the purpose of takng the evidence of the plaintiff, who * las now become a member of the * view Zealand Expeditionary Forces, i i counter-claim for the sum of £15 5s for the grazing of horses was en- <; ered, and the final hearing is set i lown for June 25. Mr Steadman g appeared for the plaintiff and Mr j Stout for the defence. I If your throat is sore and irritable C ake NAZOL. i$ will give ypu relief.

Dr. Mellraith, in his lecture last night, told how Charlie Chaplin picked up his great power of making people laugh. It was done by watching an hotel porter who was stricken with corns hobbling after the guests. It cost Charlie very little to imitate the hobble, and yet this power had enabled him to become a great entertainer.

Mr A. C. Purdy, advisory inspector to the Auckland Education Board, is on a visit to Whangarei. This afternoon he will .proceed north, visiting the Hokianga and Bay of Islands district. On his return to Whangarei, which may be about the end of the week, he will deal with the question of reorganisation at Maungatapere school.

Mrs Brigadier Hoare, who is to give a Recital on Monday evening, in the Salvation Army Hall, was the only officer from Australasia at the time of General Booth's death, and carried the flag of the Commonwealth at the memorial. This lady will speak of the stirring scenes she as an eyewitness saw. It is to be hoped there will be a large attendance to hear her exposition.

"In future," states an amended district order as to leave for returned soldiers, "all returned soldiers requiring treatment in hospitals as inpatients, and those who require continuous treatment in convalescent homes, are to be sent direct to the hospital or home, and not given leave to proceed to their homes prior to reporting at the hospital. All others are to be given seven days' leave as heretofore."

Hon. G. W. Russell is a great believer in tree-planting. After viewing some plantations in Rotorua district recently he declared: "I hold that one of the first duties of the State is to undertake a tree-planting campaign in both the Northland and Central Auckland districts, so that when settlement takes place in unoccupied portions of those areas the settlers may be able to obtain, for building and fencing, the timbers they require."

A statement recently made by Mr G. L. Marshall, president of the Wellington Farmers' Union Conference, to the effect that the increased cost of living was due to the "go-slow" policy of unionists was considered at the quarterly meeting of the Wellington. Soft Goods Employees' Union. Mr Marshall was strongly criticised, and a motion was passed embodying the view that the farmers themselves, by their profiteering methods, were responsible.

Notwithstanding that next-of-kin are not now issued free railway passes (states a District Order) wives returning to New Zealand with invalided soldiers will be granted travelling warrants from port of disembarkation to their homes, provided the contract ticket with the shipping company does not include this. Wives returning with their husbands from overseas shall be allowed to travel in special troop trains with their husbands. Any wives resident in New Zealand who have gone to meet their husbands at port of arrival are to be permitted to travel in the special troop train, paying the usual railway fare; but this is to be strictly confined to wives, and not to be available to other next-of-kin.

A special united gathering of the Whangarei Life-Saving Guards and Life-Saving Scouts was conducted in the Salvation Army Hall last night by Brigadier and Mrs Hoare, of the Salvation Army Headquarters, Wellington, who are spending the weekend in Whangarei. After some exercises had been gone through by the Life-Saving Guards and Scouts an address was given by the Brigadier, emphasising the responsibility of caring for the welfare of the body, mind, and soul. This was both humorous and instructive, and was listened to with much interest by the young people. Mrs Hoare sang a solo, and also spoke very helpful words to the young people, telling of her own experience when a young person. Brigadier Hoare, who is the general superintendent of the life-saving movement of the Salvation Army in New Zealand expressed his pleasure in meeting the Guards and Scouts in Whangarei.

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