TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 14363, 31 July 1917, Page 4

TOWN EDITION.

A Dunodiii correspondent says th.tl the new Anglican cathedral being builtin Dunedin is .expected to be ready for opening m March of next year.

"French Week" m Australia has been au immense success, £74,959 having been remitted to Paris, and oi" that sum £65,---250 has been allocated to the lied Cros> Fund.

Speaking with considerable heat m tho House .of Representatives, Mr J. A. Young quoted figures supplies by tho sectretavy of a, North Auckland dairy company showing that it cost that company 117 per cent, more to produce cheese than it did before, the war.

Tlie following hockey team will represent Allies against High School A on Thursday : R. Housfield, G. Fanning, L. Fanning. A. Leslie, M. Dumphv, L. Alien, fl. Walworth. L. Godfrey. E. More!!, A. Barlow. T. 'Mount, M. Ferguson. I. Parker.

President Wilson, speaking at Arlington on Decoration Day, said : * 'There are times when words seem empty and only action counts. Such a time has come, and m the providence of God America will once more ,have the opportunity to show the world that she was born to serve mankind."

Mr l*ercy Grainger, the Australian pianist, who enjoys a -world-wide reputation, lias (says the New York Times) joined the Fort Hamilton (New YorkState) Military Baud as an oboe player, for Avhich he will be paid 12s 6d a month. He has sacrificed valuable concert engagements and agreed to have his long auburn hair cut to conform with the military regulations.

The New Zealand Times says that as. a result of the trouble at the Wellington Gasworks and the curtailment of the gas supply city shopkeepers are still having electric light installed, and electricians are experiencing a busy time. Even householders who use the gas ring have discovered the cheapness of a small electric cooker with current supplied at a special price for culinary purposes.

Private Ray Pellew, the younger brother of J Lieutenant C. E. Pellew, well-known as a South Australian interstate cricketer, was killed m a desperate charge made by the Australians on the Somme last November. His body was not recovered. A few days ago, however, his mother m Adelaide was officially notified that her son's presentation watch was being forwarded to her. It had been found on a German prisoner.

Concrete roads are the roads of the future, says Mr Godfrey Magnes, of Wellington, who has just returned from the United States. There such roiids are being laid down m all parts of the country to meet the demands of the ever-growing motor traffic. He had the great pleasure of travelling over the 500---mile concrete road that joins Sail Francisco to Los Angeles. "It is perfect travelling at last," says Mr Magnus. "The action of the car is so smooth that you could imagine you were travelling on silk." b

In the course of a letter from Lon-' don to Mr R. A. Home, of Cliristchuroh,; Mr Peter Dawson, the wellknown baritone, pays a tribute to the New Zealand soldiers. "I have met many New Zealand boys over this side," he says, "and grand fellows they are. Tliey are humans of the first water, so sturdy, so open-minded, and they carry themselves with a dignity so becoming to the land of their birth— ■'' God's own men from God's own country.' The doings of these great men will go down m history. They are honored and loved on every hand, and treated with a respect that stands unrivalled." l

"On June 13," writes a member of the Expeditionary Force, "I had my first experience of an air raid; I don't want another. Bombs everywhere ; death roll about 120 or 130, and increasing daily ; hundreds of others maimed and injured for life. We were m ihe thick of it, and it. was aii exciting few moments — exciting, but damnable. You m the dominion have' no idea what an air raid is like ; I learned a little about it when I arrived, and now I have seen with my own eyes, and the sights one sees are ghastly m the extreme, and we see only slight cases. For instance, m a building not 50 yards away, a young chap came out covered with 'blood from head to foot, and uninjured himself. But his mate, who was working alongside him, is no more. I saw wounded girls being hurried off m ambulances, while, a motor 'bus was detailed to accommodate mangled remains. One chap who survived with one eye gone thanked God it was no worse, seeing the mangled bodies and ruins about him. And so on, and so on. It would make your heart bleed, and I' suppose this raid is not the last that will take place., A bomb on an infant school not far. off; I leave you to picture ghastly details. One cannot write them jUBt now ; it is; all too sickt ening."