TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 14688, 21 August 1918, Page 6

TOWN EDITION.

1 Redstones' Coast coaches leave town , at 7 a.m. to-morrow. : Mr. I<\ C Hay, who has been engaged surveying* for the Lake hydro-electric 1 scheme and tho Wairoa portion of the East Coast (Central) railway^ has returned to Gisborne. French deputies have tabled a Bill to abrogate tho 10 per cent, luxury tax and replace it by an all-round 2 per cent, tax on turn-over of business firms of every description, estimated to produce be- , tween 160 and 200 million pounds. ! With reference to the list of donations to the Salvation Army fund we have been asked to amend the following bids : Mrs. C. G. Holdsworth 150gns.„ Messrs. , 0. G. and B. Holdsworth 100gns.,.Mr. J. R. Murphy £100, Pakowhai station £10 10s, Mr. I). J. Parker £5 ss. "When you get into camp you will find yourself a nonentity," said Mr. W. K. Loßadley, speaking at a meeting of Second Division reservists in Christchurch. "You will learn that you are nothing but a unit in the great military machine. ■ You men are married, and most of you have imagined yourself the 'boss' in your home." At first, said the speaker, a man might find it rather hard to knuckle down, but if he did his work smilingly he would get on all right and find camp very interesting. Strawberry queues were to be seen in London yesterday, when large quantities of tho fruit wero retailed at ninepence a pound (says a London paper of July 23). Hundreds of customers were attracted to tho fruiterers in the city, and the stocks wci*e immediately bought up, although each customer was allowed only a pound. Through tho action of the Food Controller and the presumed readiness of the growers to sell at ninepence instead of 18d and 2s a pound, strawberry treats will become v the fashion in suburban homes on Saturdays. Mr Meighen, Canadian Minister of thd Interior, told the Royal Geographical Society that 9C0,C00 square milea, or about cue- fourth of Canada, is unexplored. This region is from Hudson Bay, on one side to the Yukon, and on thie other to tlie Labrador coast withsome interruptions along the river basins. In the Arctic regions ate some of the greatest mines in the world. Ore has been accidentally discovered during excavations for ra.i_.ways. The bituminous * coal and anthracite reserves of Canada £ are estimated at 285,000 million tons. The immensity of tho water-power resources of Canada enaV.ed us to look forward .with confidence to the commercial struggle after the war. At the top of a high wooded hill on Lord Clifford's estate, some 12 miles | from Torquay, there is an old Roman circular camp, or fort, its thick rock-and-earih walls and deep trenches virtually intact. As an outermost rampart of the ancient Roman Empire it was always ah impressive place. It is not less so to-day, though its aspect has !been startingly changed. As' a means of the vegetable supply for their Torquay depot, New Zealand soldiers are cultivating a portion of Lord Cliffords estate, which includes the ancient fort. Tt is a rather moving thing (says the London Star) that after slumbering undisturbed ever since the Romans occupied it as an outermost rampart of their Empire, it should awake to discover itself a war-time vegetable garden in the hoart of a far mightier Empire, to whoso defence her sons have come greater distances than from Rome. "If the war has done no other good it certainly , has caused the erection of enormously large increased frozen meat storage in the Dominion, tho total storage now being equal to over six million I 6olb. carcases, or just about a normal year's total export," says Mr. M. A. 5 Eliott, of Palmerston, in an article on the Frozen Meat Industry in New Zealand, in the July number of the Journal of Science and "Technology. "So that, provided the works started a season | with empty chambers, they could now go ! on killing for a whole season without » more than filling up their available stori age. This is a most satisfactory state I of affairs, not only under present "war ■ conditions, but it means that when the J war is concluded, and the trade becomes ! normal, it will not be necessary to rush 1 all our season's output into the Home i markets during about' six- months of the I year, but, on the contrary, we shall be able to spread the shipments moro evenly over the 12 months, and thus avoid fluctuations in prices caused bv large shipments being all dnmped on the mar.ket during a limited period." j Th© story is told by a returned officer i that one of the padres at the front • was inclined to give rather long- addresses to the men at the church ' parades. When the officer commanding remonstrated with tlie padre for keeping the men so long, the latter replied that he was in the same line of priesthood as John Knox, and he was not going to be dictated to by any officer what ho should say to the men or how long he would keep them. . "I know men," he said, "and I kiiow what I am doing." "Very well," replied the officer, "I'll see you again about the matter," A month afterwards tho padre had quite .altered his treatment m. of the soldiers, and was getting quite popular with them. The officer again p approached him, and said: "You said you knew men. Why have you altered your methods of dealing with them so very completely?" "Well," honestly replied' the padre, "I thought I did, but ona month bere has taught me more about men and the real business of life than 30 years spent in tliree large parishes in New Zealand." An interesting point was deoided in Auckland 1 a- few days ago by Mr. F. V. Frazer, S.M. Alex Eagleton, secondhand dealer, was charged with having purohased bottles from children, under 16 years of age. He contended that lie had not committed an offence because the bottles lie bought were not cracked or chipped, and were not therefore second-hand. He said brewers and bottlers were largo buyers of bottles, and if empty bottles were considered to be second-hand goods, then brewers ,and bottlers who purchased empty bottles must be called on to take out licenses as second-hand deaJlers. Tlie Act exempted persons who bought secondhand goods for the purpose of manufacturing new goods therefrom. But bottles were not bought by brewers for the manufacture of now goods; they were bought to be refilled, and were as good in ithemsel/ves when empty fx& ■ when refilled. His Worship said the jf Act did not exempt bottles from its * scope, and tho law liad to ~be taken . atf meaning what it said. Tlie object (was to have a check kept on possible B avenues for the marketing of stolen goods, audi this applied to bottles equally with other goods. It might be triie that empty bottles were as good as new, but they must be held to be second-hand when they eame from eonio source other than the place where they were originally sold. So far as the brewers and bottlers were concerned, they used the bottles in manufacture, and the bottles wlien refilled were relabelled, might bo considered new again; tho buying of tbe bottles in that case might be considered a subsidiary matter to a manufacturing business, and not a matter of dealing. De- , fondant, who admitted having bought bottles from children at his place of . business as a dealer, would be fined 10s, and 21s costs. i .