THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

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THE PELORUS GUARDIAN and Miners’ Advocate. TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 1918. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Returning Officer advertises the official result of the recent by-election of one member of the Town Board. For Influenza take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Never fails Is 6d 2s 6d.

Mr Len Smith, in proposing the toast of “the ladies'' on Saturday evening, paid a tribute to -the ever readiness they have shown in providing refreshments, etc., at all patriotic functions in Havelock.

Opunake has now in hand a fair amount of carbide for municipal purposes. Townspeople are being charged 25s per 100 feet for acetylene gas, which it is needless to say, is likely to be used very sparingly. A public meeting will be held in the Library to-night (Tuesday) for the purpose of electing a committee to conduct the affairs of the local Patriotic Society for the ensuing year. All are requested to attend.

The Secretary of the Pieton Branch of the Navy League (Mrs Friberg) acknowledges with thanks the receipt of a further instalment of six pairs of mine sweepers’' gloves from Mrs W. Harris, of “Trallyn," Pelorus Sound. This makes 69 pairs of gloves sent forward by Mrs Harris since the Navy League's appeal was first made, and is surely a record to be proud of in individual patriotic work.

Mr Hedgland, in speaking to the toast “Absent sports at the Front,” said it has been often stated that the farmers are the backbone of the country, but ho considered that our young fellows ,who have been built up oh sport are today proving themselves the backbone of the country. All the young fellows are built up on sport, and have gone to the front in a sporting' spirit. That is the kind if stuff that is going to win the war. Mr Opie, in responding, supported Mr Hedgland’s remarks. Many of Havelock’s best sports, he said, were the first to offer themselves at the outbreak of war. They did not wait for ballots or Second Divisions. “Spend all your surplus wealth: save all your surplus products, thus you doubly serve your fellows.”

“Every person who exercises economy becomes a producer and adds to tho world's supply." A meeting of football enthusiasts is called for to-morrow night in the library for the purpose of forming a club. All interested are requested to attend.

Tho births in New Zealand during the year 1917 totalled 28,239, a decrease of 270 from the previous year. The death figures for the same periods are 10,528 and 10,596 respectively. The estimated population of New Zealand at end of December, 1917 (exclusive of Maoris and residents of Cook Islands), was 1,097,672, a decrease of 2,891 from the previous year. The Maoris in New Zealand at end of last year numbered 49,776. During the afternoon tea adjournment at Saturday's football match, both teams, on the suggestion of Mr Lovell (secretary of the local Patriotic Society), unanimously agreed that the proceeds from the match (about £3 10s) should be earmarked for the Marlborough Wounded Fund. A hearty vote of thanks was given by the players to the ladies who supplied the afternoon tea. For Children's Hacking Cough at night, ,Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d, 2s 6d.

A report from America states that the wages paid to masters taking vessels through the war zone from America to France are very high. The United States Government is building a large number of ships for the French Government and the wages of the captains who take the ships across amount to £IOO per month during the whole period of the voyage. Mothers! Save money by getting NAZOL—the best family remedy for coughs and colds. Sixty doses for Is 6d —more than three doses a penny. French chemists are advocating the use of sea water in the making of bread. This not only would save the transportation of salt, it is urged, but would add materially to the healthful properties of the bread, owing to the fact that sea water contains, besides salt, a»valuable percentage of magnesium and calcium. Ocean water is already being used, it is said, in breadmaking at Cherbourg, and the bread has gained a considerable reputation as a diet in various complaints. In proposing “Sporting and Football" at Saturday's dinner, Mr A. Reade said he hoped the two football matches they had played, this season would bo the forerunner of many more. He referred to the success of previous Havelock teams a few years ago when in competition with outside clubs. He expressed the hope that a local club would now be formed and the game fostered, as he considered that in the younger men playing that day was the material for the makings of a first-class team. The old hands could give them the benefit of their experience.

In the latest issue of the “Round Table," a writer says that “in official circles in Washington the possible termination of tho war is put five years hence," Commenting upon this declaration, a writer in the London Times asks: Suppose for a moment that Washington is right and that “the possible termination of the war is five years hence." What then 7 Then one thing is very certain: that the sooner responsible people stop talking and planning as though peace were a possibility of three months hence the better. We have been fed too long with hopes of a quick peace. Such hopes are food fit enough for Germans, not for British peoples.

Before going out in cold wet weather, take NAZOL on sugar. This will keep coughs and colds away. Thousands use NAZOL. Sixty doses Is 6d. Visitors from North Auckland speak of the devastation caused by the ferocity of the recent gale which swept the North Island with such terrible results. One gentleman informed an Auckland “Star" reporter that the storm was so fierce at Cape Brett that the spray was carried over the tower of the lighthouse, which is over 200 feet high. Stones the size of cricket balls were lifted from tho beach a great height. The tram rails near the lighthouse were twisted like wire. At Peria and Victoria Valley huge pine trees of great girth and forty years old were torn from their roots along the side of the road and pitched like matches into an adjoining paddock. Very severe sufferers were the Maoris, whose crops of maize were in most cases levelled to the ground. The. British Young Men's Christian Association has decided that its huts in France will be converted after the war into hostels for visitors to the battlefields, chiefly relatives anxious to visit -the graves of their fallen kin. The British authorities anticipate a great pilgrimage of British people to France and Belgium immediately after the war, and as far as possible steps will be taken to facilitate the natural eagerness of those at home to visit the scenes where their relatives have fallen. But with a largo part of France and Belgium in ruins, particularly those districts in which lie the graveyards, there will be little accommodation for visitors. So the Y.M.O.A. proposes to use its hundreds of huts as temporary hostels.

“The average waste in each of the 200,000 N.Z. homes would feed our whole Expeditionary forces free of all cost.”

The Defence Department, it is stated, is about to enforce the compulsory clauses for registration for military training, and all youths of fourteen and upwards, who have not registered by the end of this month will be ushered before the Magistrate. Forms of registration are obtainable at every post office and need to be sent to the district military officer. A fine of £5 attaches to neglect or failure to register with an accompanying penalty of being deprived of all civil rights for a period of ten years. The same condition applies to those who transfer from one place to another and fail to notify change of address, and as the Department is now taking action to enforce registration, youins liable for training will be well advised to satisfy themselves that they are on tfie roll of the senior cadets or territorials in the area in which they reside.

That sleep-spoiling cough can he stopped by NAZOL. Take some drops on sugar. Penetrating and soothing. Splendid for children. Is 6d buys 60 doses.