LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 30, Issue 22, 19 March 1918, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus. products, thus you doubly serve your fellows.”

In connection with the new German advance in Russia, it is well to recall that Napoleon reached Moscow without conquering Russia. A speaker in the Reichstag bewails the fact that German soldiers have been “cheated out of victory” by the number and strength of the Allies. At the Magistrate's Court, Taumarunui, the other day, a man named Elligate was fmed £3, with costs £3 6s for cruelty to a cat. The offender, who had his pet parrot killed by the cat, hung the animal outside his wharc, and was alleged to have tortured it by burning its toes on a hot stove.

Nature never intended milk to come into contact with air, and the penalties attached to breaking this rule were very great, said Professor J. Wemyss Anderson, at the Society of Arts, in London, recently, in a lecture on cold storage. Common sense, he said, pointed to mechanical milking into covered vessels, cooled down, and kept away from the air till the time of consumption.

A London paper says that there are three times as many bridge clubs in London now as there were before the war, and they arc crowded from throe in the afternoon till twelve at night with middle aged men, women, and girls. It adds: “If there is to bo a round up of women slackers many of them can be found in the bridge clubs.”

Local efforts in aid of the ‘ • Red Triangle Day” fund have been well supported, and many good donations have swelled the receipts. It is expected that as the result of the different functions held, the secretary of the local Patriotic Society will have something, in the neighbourhood of £125 to forward as Havelock's concontribution.

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At a recent meeting of the Automobile Association at Auckland an important suggestion was made by Dr. Mackenzie regarding the present shortage of benzine. Application to manufacture alcohol from waste product should be made to the Government. The Government had refused to manufacture the spirit, but had not replied to a letter from the association written in October last, requesting that a law might be passed allowing private enterprise to operate. Such legislation would be of great value, not only to the owners of motor-cars, but also to farmers, who could, out of their waste products, make sufficient spirit to run their farm machines. The spirit could bo made unfit for human consumption. Wo cordially support the suggestion made by Mr F. C. Fell at a recent meeting of the Sounds Patriotic League—that an “Our Day” should be organised throughout Marlborough for the purpose of swelling the funds for our fighting boys and their dependents. The end of the war is apparently still a long way off,_ and the Marlborough Patriotic Fund is not being supported to the extent that it should be if adequate provision is to be made for the boys that will return and require assistance after the war. An organised campaign, with a definite object in view would do much to place the fund on a satisfactory footing, and incidentally enlighten many people who are still ignorant of the true purpose of the fund.

“One ounce of tea wasted in each N.Z. home means 455,000 10-lb. boxes each year.”

. latest idea on the Western front is to carry seriously-wounded men to hospital in aeroplanes, and experiments have been conducted in France in this connection. An aeroplane ambulance has been constructed, and proved satisfactory during tests. It is of a standard design, and has been slightly modified to serve as an aerial ambulance, iho main modification consists in providing a longer open space in the fuselage than usual, so as to serve as a bed for, the wounded passenger, who is strapped securely in place. At the head of the wounded passenger, just back of the pilot, is a wind shield which wards off the rush of air, while ample blankets and other covering keep him warm during the flight. Travelling at eighty miles an hour the aeroplane ambulance is said to,, be free from shocks and vibration, which are troublesome factors in the usual vehicles for the wounded.

The dance and euchre party, held in the Town Hall on Friday evening under the auspices of the local Patriotic Gommittee was well attended. The receipts, including donations and sale of articles given by patriotic citizens, 6X Pf ted to total between £25 and there was keen competition at the euchre tables for the special prizes offered, the winners proving to be Mrs Ai S C ™ nd El J* Roche (first), and Mrs Phipps and Mr F. Cowper (consolation). Dancing was kept up till well after midnight, Miss Scott, with one or two helpers supplying the music. The proceeds are to aid the “Red Triangle Day” fund. s

A New_ Zealand private soldier recently arrived at an Australian town in a transport, en route for the front (says a contemporary), and as he had left a wife and children behind, he was very anxious to send a letter to them, Unfortunately for him, no shore, leave was granted, but with a couple of mates ho determined to step ashore and post is letters. Snatching a favourable moment' the trio evaded the guard and got ashore, and after posting their letu 3 having a look round, came on board, but were unlucky enough to be spotted. A court-martial was the result, and the private was the first to be tried, and pleaded guilty, explaining ho circumstances of the case. Before f®“S, sentenced, he claimed the right to defend his comrades, which the court d °P tl ° n hut to grant. So brilliant was the defence put up that the men ere acquitted, and afterwards the deC T de( J not t 0 convict the pleader. J t then transpired that he was one of the dominion's ablest lawyers, of°£6o ooo iething in thc neighbourhood

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“Lavish living in times of leaves us a surplus from which by economising we may relieve those stricken by war famine.” The annual meeting of St. Peter’s Junior Guild will be held in the schoolroom next Wednesday evening.' A San Francisco message states that a reinforced concrete ship of 7000 tons has been launched at a Pacific port. Fifty-four others will be built without delay.

The official result of the recent election for the return of live members for the Licensing Committee for the Wairau District will bo found in another column.

The D.1.C., Wellington, offer to send those of our readers who arc unable to make a personal inspection of the new fashions ir copy of the fashion forecast for the coming autumn and winter.

We draw thc attention of our readers to the announcement made on our title page by W. J. Martin, Jeweller, Blenheim, whose special 30s lever watches cannot be surpassed for service and hard-wearing qualities.

In connection with thc flotation of the present War Loan it is interesting to recall thc result of the two previous loans. In 1916 nine millions was subscribed in ten days in response to an appeal for eight millions. Last year twelve millions asked for and the response was over 16 millions. Canvastown’s effort on Saturday on behalf of the “Red Triangle Day” appeal was a most successful one from every point of view, the suni raised being above expectations. The range of gifts was a very large and varied one, and people attended from all ovqr the district and spent freely. We hope to have a full account for ngxt issue, when thc returns are complete. A leading manufacturer of electric heating devices has recently submitted an electric oven to the United States War Department for possible adoption for army cooking. The oven is designed to take care of baking, boiling, and frying operations necessary in the feeding of about 150 men. It is unipue in that it is the first oven to be designed to perform all of these various cooking operations at one time. The hot plato , which is bracketed to the oven, will accommodate the standard United States army coffee receptacle. The oven is rated at 15 kilowatts.

“By eliminating waste in every house N.Z. could pay all of her taxes and be absolutely free.” “Cheap bread is allvays a popular hustings cry, and Labour-Socialists know how to use it to their own advantage, ’ ’ said the Farmers ’ Union Advocate in an editorial on wheat-grow-ing. “Not many consumers take the trouble to ask what it costs to produce the loaf they buy. With bread at 6d or 7d the quarteen loaf, the people do not trouble much about it, but when Id or 2d is added, the Labour-Socialist is ever ready to win a few votes by blackguarding the wheat-grower as a greedy vampire fattening on the people’s vitals. The fact that wheat-growing never has been—and probably never will be—a profitable industry in this country concerns the people very little. What does concern them is the price of the loaf, and the fear of not being able to secure their requirements. For many years past wheat-growing has been more of a patriotic than a commercial venture. It has been largely from a sentimental belief in the theory of national independence than from a practical money-making point of view that our wheat-growers have persisted in their efforts to grow enough wheat for New Zealand’s needs, and though here and there it has well repaid the grower, that has been the exception rather than the rule.”

Mr O. H. Poole, M.P., speaking to an Auckland reporter recently on the subject of the revived interest throughout the Dominion on hydro-electric development said: “X should like to commend the enterprise of the Napier people,” said Mr Poole. “They are making a determined attempt to secure Government expenditure on the development of hydro-electric power in their district. The action ofithe local bodies there is an indication that if those in Auckland who arc interested do not keep awake the probabilities are that the first hydro-electric scheme undertaken in the North Island will be either the Wellington or the Napier scheme, and Auckland will be a poor third. Personally, I consider that any delay by the authorities in developing the Auckland scheme will be calamatous. Now is the time for the local bodies to make definite representations in order that the largest city in the Dominion may be connected with a source of cheap electricity as soon as possible. Cheap natural power in Auckland would mean the development of local industries that are languishing owing to the burden of power costs. Auckland people should at least give serious consideration to the expenditure of public money on such a scheme before the opportunity goes.” J

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