LOCAL AND GENERAL
The Pope lias declined the Belgian Prelate's request to enquire into German atrocities.
A metal repairs contract- recently let by the Mnsterton County .Council was £9O los lOd in excess of" the price paid last year for the same work. A school girl named Marie Gilbertsnn Gorgotti. aged twelve years, was ' drowned at Gnstlocliff yesterday, while ■bathing a. few yards from the’beach, j Lord Wimborae reports that there an' 145,8f>9 Irishmen in the Navy and Army, of whom 80,723 enlisted since ( tht' beginning of the war. It is estimat'd that there are 400.000 single men who have not attest'd, of whom the essential industries require 300,000.
| A nunilx'r of charges of supplying liquor to Maoris in a. prohibit'd an a was heard at W'ungnmii yesterday. One European wtis fined £‘2o, and others smaller amounts. Two Maoris were (Mich fined £4. These hind already been fined by the Maori Council. During the hearing of the cases the }vo>lice said that enormous quantities of liquor were going into the area and that at Christinas there was great debauchery at various pahs.
Specials this week, —250 yards French Cambric, usual price 10}d. to clear Old ; plain shades Jap crepe, now 6sd. —Evans’, The Centre.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 5348, 3 February 1916, Page 4
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