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Oamaru Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue 13049, 11 January 1917, Page 3

The harvest appears to be coining iu with a rush and very generally, if we, may form a conclusion froin_ the demands that have come in from the country for binder twine. The harvest, as \re have previously mentioned, is: fully a month earlier than usual, and has apparently caught merchants to some extent unprepared, for the stocks of binder twine have already been- about exhausted. Of course, the requirements' in that respect can be met very speedily, hut in another direction ii difficulty is presented that cannot be overcome in like manner. This is respecting cornsacks. which are in short supply purely because of the abnormal earliness of the harvest. _ Supplies on hand at present are- limited, and consist in the main of carry-over stocks from last season. The full shipments are not due to arrive for about a month yet, and the inevitable result .will be that threshing from stook will not be practicable to any great extent, and a considerable part of the grain crops must therefore go into stack. This, however, is not likely to prove an unmixed evil, for it is questionable if the threshing mills. which are. .experiencing; some difficulty in obtaining full complements of men, could overtake the work if harvesting became general this' ■ month and threshing from stook were otherwise practicable and freely resolved upon. The fact that stacking wilt become obligatory to a large extent owing to inability to procure cornsacks will at any rate have the advantage of easing the threshing difficulty, as the work will be spread over a longer period. We have received from Mr Tertms Munro, Omarama, the sum of £1 10s, being a contribution to the Red Cross Funds Tby the shearers on Longslip. . The Chief Postmaster advises that the mails which left New Zealand on the 23rd November, via Suez, arrived in London on the night of the 7th inst. The 1917 Stone's Directory for Otago and Southland is now to hand, and is in every way equal to former editions of this periodical, which lias become indispensable to business men and the public generally. Its varied 1 information is easily accessible — it is. one of- the salient .features of Stone's that one may find' out what one wants to know in. a very short space of time. , Its many useful tables will be found invaluable to farmer and business man. The monthly meeting of the North Otago Highland Pipe Band' was held on Tuesday evening, Pipe-Major W. Gillies presiding over a. good attendance, of ; members. It was decided to accept the invitation of the United Friendly Societies' Committee to their picnic. Mrs E. Bisset wrote forwarding a donation of two guineas to the funds of the Band. The Secretary was asked to convey the thanks of the officers and members to Mrs Bisset for her kindness to the Band. A fourth annual box of heather { was-received from Mrs Rennie, of Wellington, accompanied by the compliments of the season. The Secretary waa instructed to suitably acknowledge the kindly d'onation. Sergeant Bruce (who had left for the front) wrote thanking the members of the Band l for past kindness and good wishes, and also resigning his position as trustee of the Band. The resignation was received with regret. The Secretary was requested to oonvev the thanks of the Band! to Mr Taylor for his kindness in conveying the junior members of the Band from Ngapara on January 1. Sergeant Jackmau reported. on the Band attendance at Enfield (Boxing _ Day) and .Ngapara 'January 1). and in doing so paid a tri-

bine to the hospitality exwnaea to iue members on each occasion. Apcounts amounting to £8 13s 3d were 'passed for payment. Prior to his leaving for camp on luesdav last, Mr E. Taylor, of "Brooklet," was the recipient of a presentation of a purse of sovereigns from the residents of Waiareka. Mr J. Crisp, representing the Waiareka Send-Off Committee, congratulated Mr Taylor on serving his country, and wished him God-speed and a safe return. _ ''• It has been arranged that the annual training camp 'for the 10th (North Otago) Regiment will be held in Oamaru from April 10th to April 18th. Sales of local interest made at Burnside yesterday were: —Fat cattle— Messrs' Dalgety .and' Co. sold for Mr W. G. Bruce (Oamaru) 1 bullock at £l6, 2- heifers at £l4 12s 6d ! , 1 do at £l2 17s> 6d. Dairy cows —New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., sold for Messrs Manley Bros. (Bortons) cows to £lO. Fat sheep Messrs Wright, Stephenson andi Co. sold for Mr H. Orbell (Pnkeuri) 60 ewes tip to 36s 3d. Pigs—The National Mortgage and Agency Co., Ltd., sold for Mr J. Sansom (Totara) 1 baconer at £3 15s. Inquiry from several Labor leaders ,trnp« to show. states the

News, that they are unaware of any •unrest in the Dominion, such as has for some weeks past -been- the subject or rumor, hut, on the other hand, their opinion is that things are in a settled state, and will' remain so until the end of the war, when there are indications that action will he taken with a view to a greater representation of Labor inParliament. Asked as to whether any of the local organisations had been invited to send delegates to the recent, conference in Wellington to discuss the i Military Service Act, they replied that! 110 request had been .made in that-, cLii'ec- i tion. As a matter of fact, there was no Trades and Labor Council in Invercaraill now and' no body that could speak on behalf o'f any'considerable section, of Labor, so that had a man attended' the conference he would not have been there in. a .representative capacity. The leaders were awaiting the conclusion of the f war, and, after the next' election, expected that trie workers' interests would receive more consideration than in the past. Ihey had shown themselves willing to lay down tlieir lives for their country, though in peace times- they possessed! but few of the good things, and the battle that liad all along been going on for a more equitable -share of the fruits of their labor should be made easier by the awakening effect of the past two years' conditions. However, legislative action was the only means by which thev could hope to'effect an improvement; and if Labor proved true to its interests and combined there should be radical changes for the good of the working classes. Strikes, winch had been a failure in the past v. era not lilcelv to be successful in the future, find evolutionary measures were always found to be the most effective and. to produce the most enduring results. Discussing tli© question of Civil Service exemptions, the Wellington Poet rt-ates that the attitude taken up by Jlie Post and Telegraph Department in •eference to enlistment is noteworthy. [Tp to the present 50 per cent, of eligible officers in the department have >nliisted, and, with one exception—the mrolment of wiTeless operators—no ■laim. has been made for exemption. ; n . the case of wireless operators, the ■enuest for exenwtion from general Military service was made at the reiuest of tho Ini'Dei'ial authorities, but n all other respects the department lias lone its- best i,o expedite enlistment, ind to make provision for filling the f-ap? in the service instinct-ion schools' lave heen- started in the different centres to train 'boys and girls for the A Renter messaEe to the London iaup r s, SPut from Amsterdam on November 13th. stated:—The Augsburg Vbendzeituns learns that the Czar has nvited Professor Israel, the lamous serman surgeon, to undertake an ouerntion on the Czarewitch. and- thatPro'fessor Israel has alreadr left for Petrograd with the permission of the Kaiser. From another source, how>verever. according to the Hamnunzer Siachrichten,- it- is stated that Prcps;or Israel has declined the invitation. Last month in the Hou=e of Lords, 7iscount Bryce asked Lord Derby vhetlier a number of Serbian volunteers from New Zealand who enlisted or service in the war along with the

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