ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 9870, 16 January 1918, Page 9

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

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Mr and Mrs H. H. Le Grove, of this city, are visiting Auckland. An astonishing total of what waste of bread means is given by the “Church Army Gazette” in the following supposed autobiography of a wasted slice of broad am a slice ’of bread. -I measure three inches by two. My thickness ia half an inch. My weight fij exactly one ounce- I am wasted o&oo a day by A8*(X)0»00Q people ia Bntain- Xam the bit left over, the slice eaten when really I waa nqit wanted. it am the waste crust. Collect mo and my companions tor a week, and we shall amount to 9360 tons of bread. Two shiploads of good .brcaji ..wpsted as much as 3d submarine*—if they bad luck —pouid tank. ’ If you throw me away, or waste mo, you are as good a? adding 20 submarines to tho German navy I"

The people who are suffering most from high prices are women workers, mostly clerks in the cite • who take their midday meals at teaahope, says a London correspondent. Not only have prices been raised a* these places about 50 per cent., but customers get much less for thefr money."-The usual serving of bread is pow two ounces a penny, making the ninepennv loaf yield 2s Bd. In some restaurants a loaf is out into Joz portions. making a quartern yield about 6s. Eggs at a teashoo are Sd each, 2Jd is Charged' for a pieoe of cheese, while a elide of "cake’is Sjd, These are sad prices tor a girl clerk. A wedding with an . Anglo-Australian interest will take place next month, when Lieutenant the Hon. Charles Clifford, who will some day be Lord Clifford of Cbudleigh, will marry Miss Dorothy Hornyhlold pays a correspondent of the “Australasian.’’ It will’be remembered that the present Lord Clifford lived for many years in Tasmania and one gon is now,, a stock broker in Hobart. The other is Captain Bede Clifford, A.D.C. to . the Australian Governor-General. The Hon. Charles Clifford, who is to marry Miss Hornvhold, was born in New Zealand. ' He was one of the volunteer naval contingent that went over with Mr ‘Winston Churchill to the relief of Antwerp. Ho was interned in Holland. After the wedding Mr Charles Clifford and his bride will return to Holland, Mr Clifford having an appointment in the British legation. The Overseas Club is continuing its self-imposed . work of planting mimosa, maple, and other trees in the portions of cemeteries given over to Australian, Canadian, New Zealand and other overseas soldiers iii France, Mr .Fisltot, the Australian High Commissioner, hais just been added to the Imperial War Graves Commission, which has been established under the presidency of tho Prince of Wales. Mr Rudyard Kipling is another member. The Government has decided that the maintenance of the burial places of our soldiers and sailors is a Sacred Obligation resting on tho whole - Ejmpift, and the oost will be met out of ‘ funds provided by British and Dominion Plirliamente. There will thus be no appeal tor subscriptions for the erection of permanent memorials, says an Australian paper. _ . . . * .

Mrs Annie Bettany. of Norfolk street; Ponsoubv who died last week in ter 82nd year, was a native of Manchester. She came to Auckland with her late husband, Mr A. Bettany, in the ship Shalimar, in 1862. Mr Bettany, who served in the Indian Mutiny campaign, took part in the Maori War, and was subsequently in business in Auckland as a provision dealer. He died about 20 years ago. Mrs Bettany had lived in Ponsonby for over 40 vears. She was one of the original members of St. John’s Methodist Church and.was a member, of the first choir of that church. She also was a well-known local singer. She Iqavep two sons, one daughter, seven grandchildren and two eroat-grandohildren. The eldeat grandchild is Gunner Arthur Bettany, now on active service.