NEWS SUMMARY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 2 November 1916, Page 4

NEWS SUMMARY.

Auckland: The aviation school at Kohimararaa will be reopened shortly. Several Auckland exhibitors won awards in the art section at the Manawatu Spring Show yesterday. George William Martyr), aged two. was accidentally 'drowned at Whangamata, near li'iktitaia. yesterday morning. Fourteen men enrolled at the city recruiting station yesterday. Seven were accepted, three deferred, and four rejected. » . ,— The census returns for the borough of Onehunga show an increase in the last five years of 472 males and 793 females, a total increase of 1265 persons. Nil recurrence of inf.int'le paralysis is anticipated by the authorities this \ear. hut the suppression of the dust nuisance and isolation of children suffering from sore throats arc advised as precautionary measures. The meat exports from Auckland, through the Auckland Farmers' Freez'iig Company, during October last, showed a decrease < t 155.5471b, as compared with those for October. 1915. but for the four months .Inly 1 to October 31 last, an increase of 5.093.5991b is shown, in comparison with the corresponding period of last year. New Zealand: The .shortage i" the twenty-third draft ]* now 750. A New Zealand siege battery is to be formed, requiring .reinforcements at the rate of about fifty men annually. Two members of the twenty-first rein-t-.icemeiu?, Privates Coupe and Carradus, died from cerebrospinal meningitis. Too census returns indicate that Auckland Province will gain two seats when the Parliamentary electoral boundaries are readjusted. The Imperial authorities have requested that the export of crossbred wool be limited to Britain, or, if so directed, to allied countries. Sergi. W. R. McVicar. of the nineteenth reinforcement, was killed at Lower Hutt on Tuesday night when attempting to board a moving train. The Government has. agreed to raise the limit of the number of men who may he recruited for the motor-boat patrol to 90 officers and 100 mechanics. Scoullai and Co.. of Wellington, were fined £50 on a charge of having broken the terms of a contract for the supply of mattresses for -.lie troops. Duncan Cameron, a sheepfarmer, of Waikarjmoana, died at Wairoa as the result of ; njuries received through a motorcar falling over a bank. A statement regarding the issue of permits for the manufacture of engineering supplies in the Old Country was made list evening by the Hon. Arthur M. Myers. Australia: Three members of the Federal Ministry have resigned. The latest returns slightly reduce the majority against conscription. British and Foreign: The Eider Dempster .steamer Bornu foundered in a gale off the French coast. The War: The Norwegian Minister at Berlin has arrived at Christiania. The, latest Roumanian communiques report successes at several points. The Servians continue to make progress on the Tserna salient, south-east of Monastic The arrival of allied aeroplanes in Bucharest has conferred on that city immunity from air raids. A , lively discussion took place in the House of Commons on man power, food prices, and other war topics. The. captain and several members of the crew* of the Donaldson steamer Marina, sunk by a submarine off the Irish coast, were drowned. It is reported that allied pressure on the Transylvanian front has compelled the Germans to recall troops from the Dobrudja to there. The American Navy Department has received unofficial information to the effect that Britain is building Dreadnoughts of 40.000 tons, armed with ten 18in guns. A total stun of £50,000,000 was subscribed in Britain for war charities during the first two years of the war, including the amounts raised in the Dominions and the colonies. I