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Southland Times, Issue 17658, 16 February 1916, Page 5

The question of forming a recruiting Committee to work in conjunction with tiie Council was discussed at some length at the Winton Borough Council meeting on Friday evening. It was agreed that every effort should be made to meet the Wishes of the Recruiting Board, and with that end in view Sir Joseph Ward is to be invited to visit Winton and launch the scheme.

The Wvndham Herald reports that Menzies Ferry has the honour of being the best locality to make a donation to tiie Wyndham branch of the Red Cross Society; Mr Neil Ross, secretary- of the Menzies Ferry annual picnic, having forwarded the profit from the last picnic—the substantial sum of £8 4s 6d. No doubt other districts will follow this pood lead.

The King’s request for national abstinence during the war period does not appear to have met with a great deal of sympathetic compliance by the men at present finding employment in one of the larger towns of Otago (reports the Otago Daily Times). It was stated on good authority that in one of the local hotels no fewer than 64 hogsheads of beer were consumed in a period of four jweeks, As a. result of this extensive ■use of liquor the police returns for tiie town show that there are already 20 convictions for drunkenness this year, as (against 70 for t{ie whole of 1915.

Dr MacFarland and Dr Rentoul stated On their return to Melbourne from their angling tour in New Zealand that thej had had a most enjoyable and successful time. The fly-fishing they reported as better than for several years past, the trout being numerous and in prime condition. When "spinning with the minnow” in the tidal waters of the great |Waiau river they found it had recovered its good name of 10 years ago. They landed a large number of splendid English trout, fresh run from the sea, the freight varying from 121b to 51b.

The temporary executive of the War Funds Association is losing no time in bringing about the establishment of the organisation for the administration of the Southland war funds. On Monday evening a meeting was held at Gore. Mill. W. Royds and G. W. Woods attending as representatives of the Association Executive. After the constitution had been outlined, it was unanimously decided to form a branch of the Association at Pore.

A meeting of the directors of the

Gorve Bush Co.-op. Dairy Factory was Jield on Monday evening, when there was a good attendance and a paysheet tor '£B2o was passed. The balance - sheet lor the half-year ended on January 31 showed that a surplus of nearly £3OO had been made during that period. The manager reported that the intake was keeping up well, just on to 1000 gallons per day being handled. It was decided to alter the pay day to tho seventh of each month instead of the second Tuesday as hitherto.

Captain W. B. O’Toole, who has acted jbs District Commander of the Invercargill Boy Scouts for the past two years, has been notified of bis promotion to tho position of Commissioner for Southland i<vico Dr Ritchie Crawford, resigned); Also that the Chief Scout, Lieut-Coionel Cosgrove, V.D., will inspect the Southland troops about the end of this month. ,IA parade of the Invercargill District troops will be held on Friday next at the Y.M.C.A. Buildings, Tay street, to practice massed drill necessary for the .Chief Scout’s inspection. It is desired Jhat a full muster be present.

At yesterday’s meeting of the Otago ■|University Council a recommendation irom Dr Benham that Miss Betts be appointed lecturer in botany at a salary of £2OO a year (creating a new lectureship) rwas referred to the Finance Committee to report to next meeting when the financial position of the University will be known. Four applications were received for the position of lecturer on accountancy law, and these were referred to the Finance Committee with power' to act after conference with the Society of Accountants, who furnish portion of the ißalary of £l5O a year. The council conveyed congratulations to Lieutenant H. B. Skinner (who won ids B.A. degree a few years ago) on receiving the Distinguished Conduct Medal; also Lieut. M’m. Bishop (a mining student) who •was personally decorated with the Military Cross by His Majesty the King.

An Auckland firm recently received a Cable message in code, which it desired to transmit to its Wellington office. On presenting the telegram at tho Auckland Telegraph Office, however, it was informed that Inland messages containing code words could not be accepted. Writing on the subject to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, the firm suggested that it was absurd that a message which could be sent from Sydney to Auckland, or vice versa, could not also be sent from Auckland to Wellington. The explanation of the Telegraph "Department on the point was that under the censorship regulations the use of code language in inland messages is prohibited, the purpose being to avoid the delay which the censoring of code language would impose on inland traffic. 3n the case of cable messages, it was pointed out, censoring is unavoidable, and code language is therefore permitted. This explanation was accepted by the council of the Chamber as being patisfaclory.

An alleged victim of drugged liquor. Jwhose straightforward story the medical examination somewhat corroborated, appeared before Mr George Brownlee, J.P., at the Oamaru Court on Monday morning charged with being found drunk on a train on the 611 1 inst (says the Mail). The police said that the man’s condition was serious when he was arrested. Medical aid was summoned, and after an hour's work he returned to consciousness. He was brought before’ the court cn Monday week and remanded for treatment, since when lie has been in the hospital. The prisoner pleaded guilty. Ho said that he had brought no liquor on the train with him, but on coming out of the dining car a man, whom lie did not know, proffered him a bottle of ■whisky, of which ho drank a mouthful. The next thing lie knew was that lie was in the hands of tho police. The sum of £7 was in his pockets when he loft the dining car, but had vanished since. He >-as sober when lie got on the train. He •was on his way south after some months in Trentham camp, where lie had been discharged for heart trouble. The bench inflicted a fine of ss, the prisoner to pay the medical expenses, £1 Is, in default 48 hours’ imprisonment.

When proposing the toast of the Parliament of Xew Zealand at the viceregal luncheon at Whangarei last week (reports the Xew Zealand Herald,), Col. Steadman said he would venture to trespass on polities, to make reference to the land which it was proposed to give returned soldiers. He did not consider its quality sufficiently good to enable the man to make a living. In the course of his reply, Mr .'lander, M.P., said ho quite agreed that the men should bo •well treated on their return, but all the men who returned would not be suited for farming. They would have to tlnd out what the man wanted. It was proposed to give them sufficient land to carry 1000 sheen, and if a man got this lie did not have much to complain of. He also held that it was possible to make a complete success of fruit-farm-ing in the North. At Port Albert there were men making £IOOO a year from their holdings. If that could be done at Port Albert, where the land was poor enough, it could also be done in the Whangarei district. But it would be necessary for the Government to give assistance. He saw no reason whatever why the Government should . not set aside gum lands for fruit farms. He was s;ure the Government would do its best for the men who returned, and every ynember *of Parliament would help.

"Joe Powelka is hero in the Dardanelles,” writes a soldier to his father in the Mangaweka district. As the writer of the letter and Powelka knew each other fairly intimately in their boyhood days in Kimbolton there should be no question of mistaken identity (says the Mangaweka Settler).

It is expected (says the Wellington Post) that an announcement regarding the new Board of Trade will bo niado this week. Cabinet has had an extremely difficult task in dealing with the numerous applications, but the list has been narrowed down, and it is expected that tlie appointment, in the terms of the Act passed last session, will be made in a few days’ time.

The Christchurch tourist agent (Mr S. J. Collett) says it is rather interesting to study the various excuses made in support of applications to leave the dominion (says the Press). Some simply' state they are off for business or work, or are returning home. One old man was bound for the Commonwealth to get his old ago pension. A young man, in fact more than one, wanted to go to Australia in order to study theology. A great number go to "follow their occupations.” That they arc not all shirkers is evidenced by the fact that several are going across the water in order to enlist, having been turned down by the local Defence authorities. One old gentleman was going to Sydney to see his son off to the front.

A few days ago a North island farmer was disabused of his prejudice against the South and all that therein is by being taken for a run round the Taieri farms, where lie saw, on bottomless loam, such crops of cereals as lie bad previously only read about, and at his last place of call, Mr J. Patrick’s estate, Lee Creek, the visitor was shown something that may be deemed rare even in favoured Otago—viz., a well-grown sam--pxe of Leader oats. These oats are of Garton’s breed, the result of 30 years’ experimenting and cultivation. With the ordinary Garton oats there are three grains on a spikclet, but tiie Leader oats run four and five per spikelet, and owing to their size at least two are saved in the threshing. This means a great increase in the yfield. It is also claimed that the Leader oats when blown about do not shake out. Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co. imported some of the Leader seed two years ago, and resowed it, and the product is now getting on the market. —Evening Star.

A new regulation regarding the rental of quarters provided by the Government for members of the Public Service is gazetted, as under; —(1) An officer, whether married or unmarried sent to a station where quarters are provided must occupy the same and pay the rent specified. (2) Mo rent will be charged where the accommodation provided is insufficient for the officer’s family, and where, as a consequence, the officer has to rent a house for his family. (3) In the case of buildings occupied by more than one officer, rent shall be proportionately allocated among them. (4) Rental will be computed at an annual rate payable monthly, and, except under special circumstances herein provided for, will be not exceeding ten per cent, of the officer’s salary. (5) Where fuel or lighting is provided at Government expense, an additional charge equal to the actual cost will be made for the same. Where the salary at present paid is based on the supplies being furnished by Government, an equivalent addition will be made to the classified rate of pay. (6) The Commissioner, in any case in which he is of opinion that the enforcement of the above-mentioned directions would be inequitable, may waive or vary any or all of them.

Plumour in farming matters is iiard to find at present, but the tale of how lucerne was established on the run of tho late Hon. Robert Campbell, at Otckaike, is not devoid of amusing features (says the Oamaru Mail). The late gentleman was an early and firm believer In lucerne, but his head man abhorred it. believing it only a fad of “the boss,” which could be shelved by obdurate objection on his part. He was firmly convinced that lucerne, once in the land, could not be got rid of, and many heated arguments, dignified by restraint, ensued. Mr Campbell asked that a few pounds of lucerne seed might be mixed with whatever pasture seeds were sown, and, falling to get his way by mandate which was surely his right, he gave way. When the men who mixed the seed were at lunch, however, he would slip into the shed, and from a capacious pocket sprinkle the select seed with lucerne. This kept cropping up all over the run with irritating persistency, and showed a virility which much annoyed his head man. The latter wrote many caustic letters to seed merchants year by year without avail. That the lucerne thrived may bo seen by any. visitor to Otekaike, for all over the run there are patches of the hardy fodder plant that intervening years of cron and its close cultivation have been, unable to eradicate.

An interesting decision relating to State legislation in the direction of restricting drinking among soldiers lias been given by the Acting Attorney-Gen-eral (states the Melbourne Age). Mr Mahon was asked by the Defence Department for an opinion as to whether the Tasmanian soldiers liquor restriction legislation was ultra vires. It forbids licensees, under the State licensing law, to supply, or permit to be supplied, any liquor to any member of the military forces while on duty, on active service, or while in uniform, except when such member is a bona fide traveller under the Licensing Act. Mr Mahon has given as his opinion that sucli law is valid. The State Parliament, lie says, has power to prescribe the conditions of the liquor licenses held under State law, as long as its legislation was not inconsistent with any provision of the Commonwealth Constitution or with any valid Federal law. If tile Commonweal tli Parliament passed any law relating to tile supply of liquor soldiers which was inconsistent with the State law, the State law, to the extent that it was inconsistent with the Federal law, would be invalid, in the absence of a Federal law, however, State legislation was valid.

When the Industrial Co-operative Conference was sitting in Christchurch recently the chairman, in an interview with the 1-Time Minister, brought under his notice the need of encouragement to our latent industries, and among them ho instanced printing paper, which; it was declared, could be manufactured on the West Coast, where there lay waterpower and what were practically untouched forests for working. Mr Massey gave a sympathetic reply, ;tml the matter rested there. It now appears, wires the correspondent of the Star, that there is a company on tho eve of flotation in Christchurch, which has made exhaustive trials of West Coast timbers, actually sending away samples in charge of an expert for testing by paper mills in Canada and elsewhere, and the results to hand have proved that New Zealand timbers are eminently fitted for the purpose of conversion into paper pulp, and thus into tho paper, so largely used for printing newspapers. This company have not only done this, but have secured the water lights of a large watershed, as well as many thousands of acres of virgin bush, which is ’‘treed" with tho most suitable of tin; timbers for the purpose required. The company were chary of placing their prospectus on the market owing to the war, but there is reason to believe that the renewed and unceasing demand for the proper kind of paper will mean that it will shortly be placed before the public.

Toys "made in Germany" have bad too long a vogue with British children. It is now fervently hoped that they will know thorn no more. Mr K. W. .Dalton, the newly-appointed British Trade Commissioner to Xew Zealand, ti the course of an interview at Wellington last week, said that immediately on the declaration of war the Board of Trade set to work to capture the enemy toy trade. it held a sample exhibition, to which merchants, retailors, and manufacturers wore invited. "One of tlie trades we dealt with was the toy trade,” said Mr Dalton. "We went to the wholesale houses for samples of tlic toys that had been bought in Germany and Austria, and ashed for the reason why the toys had been chosen. Other members of the staff of the Board of Trade took ttie samples to the British manufacturers, and asked them to undertake the production of similar articles. In many cases the replies were favourable, anil when the exhibition was opened we were aide to show the British toys as well as the German ones. The results, from a business point of view, were very good. This mettiod was adopted in connection with various other trades." Mr Dalton pleaded for British manufacturers, who were most anxious to continue and extend trade relations with the dominions, Iml needed some indulgence for the great difficulties they now laboured under in regard to shortage of labour, material, shipping space, and greatly increased costa of manufacture.

Bluff has boon swept by potato blight and every grower has been visited. Even some second sowings have been killed off. —Bluff Press.

At the Otapiri picnic hold a short time ago, says the Winton Record, £G Is was raised for the Soldiers’ Club in this way: Two young ladies competed in a race, end handed back the prize for the Wounded Soldiers’ Club. Mr John Prascr received offers for the trophy, and the substantial amount above stated was obtained and sent to the Wounded Soldieis’ Club in Invercargill.

At tiie inciting of the St. John Ambulance Brigade held last night it was sug-

gested ihal. as members of the Brigade had attended the A. and P. Show, the Riverton, Tapanui, Wyndham and Winton races, the New Year’s Day r demonstration, besides all football matches, it was desirable that a uniform should bo procured lor the men belonging to the Brigade. The distinguishing badge whicii ti’.e members wear when attending functions at which first aid might be found necessary', was thought by some to be insufficient, and the workers were handicapped as a result. A committee was set up to report on the proposal. Mr W. H. Hemingway', F.P.A. (N.Z.). Solicitor, tli e Director of Hemingway and Robertson’s Correspondence Schools, Auckland, is at present on a brief visit to Invercargill, and may bo consulted at the Grand Hotel, Dee street, to-day and to-morrow from 11 till 1 or 3 till 5.30 or 7 till 9, by those desirous of being prepared for the Law, the Accountancy, the Teacher’s, the Matriculation, the Junior or Senior Public Service, or the Universitv Bookkeeping Examinations. Since their foundation in 1897, Hemingway and Robertson’s Correspondence Schools have successfully prepared over 3500 for the Matriculation and other public examinations, over 1500 for the Accountant's Degree and Bookkeepers’ examinations, and over ISO for the various Law examinations. x

2/- to 5/- in the £ having on Underwear. — Undrill’s Sale, opp. Post Office. A GOOD PLACE TO STAY; RAILWAY HOTEL. INVERCARGILL. Right opposite Railway Station. x Maroon Art Serge Table Covers are going at bargain prices at THOMSON AND BEATTIE’S End-of-Season Sale. They' are very’ slightly faded, 2% and 3yds long. The usual prices are 10/and 12/6; Sale prices 6/11 and 8/11 each. They are real bargains at these prices. x

In order to make room for our New Season’s Goods, which will shortly be to hand, we are thoroughly overhauling our stocks in all departments, throwing out all Remnants and Oddments. So that these will sell quickly, they are being marked at extremely low prices. Thev comprise smart, up-to-date goods and materials, by viewing which the public will have an opportunity of securing some extraordinary bargains. Remnants of Tweeds and Dress Fabrics; Remnants of Silks; Remnants of Voiles, Muslins, Prints, Poplins, Linings, etc., etc., all to clear at half marked prices. Wc invite inspection. PRICE & BULLEID. x A practical course of training for business or professional life, identical with that received at the University, may be obtained through Hemingway and Robertson’s splendid system ; of correspondence instruction, and with this added advantage, that all lectures and lessons are in print and so ever by the student s side for reference and revision. Over 13,000 energetic ybung people have succeeded under Hemingway and Robertson’s system. Each year the firm finds good positions in all parts of the dominion for several hundred of its qualified students and anyone who masters Hemingway and Robertson’s Home Stud> Courses may rest assured of obtaining rapid advancement. If he or she does not do so of his or her own efforts the firm, by means of its organisation and agents, will do so. Till Thursday evening the Director of the Schools, Mr W. H. Hemingway, will be in Invercargill, and may be consulted by parents and others at the Grand Hotel, Dee stneet. The subjects taught include bookkeeping, accountancy, shorthand, advertisement writing, complete business training, and preparation for law, matriculation, public service, teachers and bookkeepers’ examinations. Hours for interviews daily, 11 till 1, 3 till 6, and 7 till 9. J. Rich, representative. x Buy for prompt cash and save your money. One of the most effective ways of saving your money is to buy for ready money from BAXTER’S—if you buy on credit you keep paying for other people’s bad debts. x A little cold is a dangerous thing. No saying what it may lead to. Don’t delay. Get "NAZOL” —that swift, sure remedy for coughs, colds, influenza, and sore throat. Sixty doses cost 1/6. Tho travelling public can obtain all Newspapers, Magazines, Latest Books. All brands of Cigarettes, Tobaccos and Confectionery. No half-holiday at the Bookstall. C. RODGERS, Proprietor, x If you suffer from Bronchitis or Asthma, "NAZOL” will prove a boon and a blessing. Take it on sugar or through a "NABOL’’ Inhaler, and you will have great relief. Sold everywhere in bottles, 1/6.

The reason why tho B.S.A. Company are able to give such good deliveries of the B.S.A. motor cycles is very largely due to tlie fact that the British Government have recognised the tremendous efforts of tlte B.S.A. Company to supply various forms of munitions and military equipment, which have been necessary for the successful carrying out of the present war. The B.S.A. Company are turning out such quantities of military rides, machine guns, and other munitions, also a very large number of the special military folding bicycle, having spent something over half a million pounds in the erection of special buildings and plant for this purpose since the outbreak of war. Their Daimler Works at Coventry have also been placed almost entirely at the disposal of the Government, and are turning out huge quantities of motor transport and aeroplane equipment A large number of B.S.A. motor cycles have also been purchased by the British and the Allies for military purposes, and in view of the tremendous output of other munitions by the B.S.A. Company, they have been allowed to retain a portion of the motor cycle output for the export trade, which is giving an opportunity for the New Zealand agents to obtain good deliveries of this machine the sales of which have more than doubled throughout tho dominion the past year. It is, of course, impossible to say for a certainty, that future deliveries will be as good, and intending purchasers will be wise to take out of the stocks which are due to arrive in Invercargill during the next few weeks. G. W. Woods and Co. are Southland Agents for the B.S.A.

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On page 1— Wanted, general. "'anted, electroplate! - . Bor hire, sewing machines. P. A. Vyner is retailing whey butter. Applications called for position of working foreman. Xow is the time to order your blackberries from the exchange Sale Booms. On page 6 Grand Pictures at 2 and G.-iu. Popular Pictures at 2 and 6.45. "Bed Cross Day"—Jn’gill Tennis Club to-day. Parade of Dominion Boy Scouts at V.M.C.A, Hall. Priday evening, at 7.1 a. .loin the Hemingway and Bobertson’s Correspondence Schools. On page S Wm. Todd and Co.’s weekly furniture sale Thursday.