TOWN EDITION.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14900, 2 May 1919, Page 4

TOWN EDITION.

The mails which left New Zealand un The 22i*d March arrived at London on the 29th April. IN Several Wanganui shopkeepers failed to olose their shops on the day when, tho licensing poll was taken. The Labor '. Department intends to prosecute them. V -\dvioe has been received by Mrs J. j CT.V'mor, 305 Cliilders road, that her [ soi,. Private Harry Teal, is arriving by E limit 248, per Rimutaka.. < The consent of the Minister of Finance ' has been obtained to the observance of special holidays on the Monday and Tuesday after-, peace is proclaimed. 1 A man named Chas. Kna-oper was ad- . m'tted to the hospital yesterday aa the j [rosult of a slight injury, to his foot, ; caused by a truck. The population of Wellington and suburbs is 104,000. It is estimated by | the Government Statistician that in 25 < ! years the population av'Jl be just under j 200,000. ] The Tofua, with draft No. 234, comjprising, 49 officers, five* nurses, 436 men jof other ranks, 13 Imperial details, five {'civilians, four women, and two children, i is expected to reach a South Island port — probably Lyttelton — on June 2. Mr. H. Landon-Lane, of the staff of the Rank of New South Wales, has received notice of his transfer to Levuka, and leaves by the Makura in about a week or so. While in Gisborne Mr. Lane took a prominent part in rowing, being an active member of the Gisborne Rowing Club's shed. His many friends will wish him the best of luck in the future. ' The extent to which pilfering of cargo i is practised is illustrated by the recent ' experience of a Dunedin shoe store proI pnetor. A case containing 35 pairs of ! boots was shipped to him by a Wellington firm. When the case, which presented no, external evidence of having been tampered with, was opened, 11 pairs of boots were missing. The thieves had left dn the case the empty cardboard boxes. Outrages by night by ruffians armed . with revolvers^' are becoming alarmingly frequent (says the Melbourne Argus). Tho number of arrests bears no comparison with the number of crimes of this kind. There seems to be no check upon the carrying of firearms. They are pro- ■ duced almost daily in street brawls and nimost nightly by footpads'. If the practice of carrying arms be allowed to continue, it will become a serious evil. The immunity enjoyed by the footpads emboldens them and also influences others who are criminally minded. \ Among those who returned by the Maheno was the well-known Padre Walls, M.C., who for some two years'and a half was, associated with the 2nd Wellington Battalion in much of th#ir heaviest fighting. Padre Walls has made a splendid reoovery, and no longer needs the assistance of a crutch in getting about. It is interesting to note that Padre Walls is the second New Zealand Salvation Army chaplain to win ' the Military Cross, "but tlie whole six who have represented the Salvation Army with the N.Z.E.F. have won golden opinions from all ranks. It is not generally known that there are a great many wild' cattle on the Tarai-ua Ranges, says a Manawatu paper. Some little time ago, when journeying irom the Upper Hutt valley through tlie bush to the Otaki Gorge, Mr. A. Seed and a \ companion came across a great herd of wild cattle, estimated at fully 500 head. They wero grains in the bush in a large basin of country at least six or seven miles beyond the Otaki ■ 'Forks, lving between. Mount Kopokoponu'i and Mount Hector. In this basin the country is' comparatively, open, and in the ilistarit future will probably be broken into good farm land. The Holy Trinity Parish Hall was well filled last night, when a concert was held, tho object being to raise funds in aid of a memorial -cross to be erected in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church, to the memory of those who fell I in the great wa.r. The worthy object is be,ing carried out by the girl's" of Holy Trinity Club, under the guidance of the vicar, the Rev. H. Packe. . The concert ; last night, though under the auspices of j the Girls' Club, was arranged by Mrs. i Wood, and augmented the fund by about ' £15, making a total amount already in i hand of £165. Tho full amount requir- J ed is £300. Tlie programme com-! prised items of vocal and instrumental i music. j The Workers' Dwellings Board has for some time been investigating the merits of three different systems proposed for; the erection of standardised dwellings i in ' concrete. It is probable (says the Dominion) that if the results of the investigations appear suffiefantfy- tfavor-t able the Board will go as far as to erect a few dwellings on the system showing the most promise. Tlie work will, of course, be something in the way of an experiment. To avoid the monotony of appearance that -threatens to attend standardisation, the, board would as far as possible vary the fronts of the house, and build no more than two or three in any one locality. Should the experiment be resolved upon, it will in all likelihood be made in Wellington. It is pleasing to learn through recent advices from England that Corporal E. W.'- Armstrong, eldest son of j Mr C. E. Armstrong^ District Engineer, j who for the past three months has been studying architecture in London, has succeeded in obtaining one of the scholarships offered by the N.Z.E.F., entitling him |to £200 a year for toyo years with choice of university. Corporal Armstrbng, who left with Uie 34th Reinforcements, went to France at the beginning of' June last, and was through all tho fierce fighting of the last few months of the war — from Bapaume to Le Quesnoy, ending in the historic march to the Rhine and occupation of Germany. At. the end of 'January he obtained leave from Germany to return to London to finish his studies in architecture and it speaks volumes for his vitality, both mental and physical, that he was even fit to take up such close study so soon after such strenuous fighting and his friends all wish him every success in- his future sphere. Oorporal Armstrong was formerly a • pupil of tho Gisborno High School, I where he passed his matriculation, Mr, j Armstrong is to be congratulated upon i.his son's success and the happy turn 'of events, promising as it does a bril--5 liant career,