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Southland Times, Issue 17876, 4 September 1918, Page 4

A steamer carrying English and American mails is now due at Wellington. The Invercargill portion of the mails is expected to arrive here to-morrow afternoon. A Christchurch wire states; — The body of a woman, so far unidentified, was found on the beach at Sumner this morning. A Dannevirke resident who bought a rough farm of 1661 acres within two or three mile sof the town some 18 years ago at £9 5s per acre has just been sold out at a price equalling £3B per acre. The music for the Tleturned Soldiers’ Skating Carnival on Friday evening was finely rendered by the Hibernian Band, who have also kindly consented to supply a programme for the Children’s Fair this evening at King’s Hall in aid of the Copper Trail. ■ A Waimate telegram states: —Owners of the Livingstone Hotel which was destroyed by fire last July obtained permission to-day from the Waif.aki Licensing Committee to close their temporary premises till after the war under the Sale of Liquor Restriction Act, 1917. This protects the license till after the war. Through the Otago and Southland Daffodil Club a number of daffodil blooms from seedlings raised by the Hon. R. Heaton Rhodes reached Invercargill yesterday afternoon and have been placed on exhibition in Messrs Lonnie and Sons’ window, Esk street. There are a number of varieties, some of which are very fine and the whole are well worthy of inspection by all flower lovers. The journal of (he Department oi Public Health shows that during the month of July two samples of milk were taken and dealt with in the Southland district, two vendors being concerned. One of the samples complied with the requirements of the Art and the other did not- Further aetion in connection with the latter sample is pending. In Southland during July six samples of foodstuffs were weighed, one vendor being concerned, and all complied with statutory requirements. The Dunedin Times reports that a party of miners is at present engaged in looking for a coal seam which is known to exist on the Dunedin City Corporation reserve at Kaitangata. The operations have led the men into contact with one of the drives from which coal was won in the early days of coal-mining in (he township, when the river in the locality of the old tramway presented a busy scene on account of the number of light-draught vessels which traded between the township and outside ports. In those early times vessels like the Invercargill, Kakanui, Margaret Reid, Mary Reid, and many others found the river to be easily navigable, but during recent years the amount of silting up which has bean in process has made navigation impossible. Commenting on the import business the N.Z. Trade Review says;— Now that -the winter is practically over business prospects are looking a little brighter, though there is not very much actual improvement to record so far. Business, however, is now controlled more by the supplies available for sole then by the buying demand, and merchants arc more exercised over making their small stocks go as far as possible in satisfying their clients’ more urgent requirements than in looking for further business. The shortage of supplies generally is even worse than last month, and the outlook for the future shows no improvement. There are only a few alterations in prices this month, and those are upward movements, and the general tendency is towards firmer values. “It will surprise you to learn,” said Captain Brooks to the Wellington Officers’ Institute last week, “that of the 40,000 balloted men first examined 1617 were turned down solely on account of flat -feet. That by no means represents the total number who suffered from that complaint; many others also suffered, but were turned down for more serious causes. Add to that the GOO rejected for lack of chest measurement and you have two battalions of infantry lost to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force for defects which could have been prevented by •a proper course of physical training. Fortunately we hale been able to recover a large number of these men by the agency of the Cl Camp.”

Reports received in Ashburton go to show that the early lambing has not been very favourable to many farmers in the district. Cold weather and the shortage of pasture have been the principal causes.

When asked if he had made any definite arrangements regarding hospital accommodation for soldiers, Colonel Valintine said yesterday that he had not done so. He had interviewed a number of people wishing to dispose of their residences, but none seemed prepared to lease them. The residential property which he aspires to secure would be, in his opinion, very suitable but before interviewing the owner, Mr W. U. Hunt, he could not be certain that it is obtainable. “This is absolutely the place in the dominion so far- as making hospital provision for soldiers is concerned, 1 ' he said in reference to Southland.

A pretty soldier story was told by the Hon. T. M. Wilford at (he Soldiers’ Club luncheon in Masterton on Thursday. The Minister stated that somewhere in France some New Zealand soldiers entered,an inn where beer was retailed in the smallest of measures. They each of them took a jug, which they had filled, and they then consumed the contents. As they left the inn three Belgian boys, who were seated in the corner, asked the lady bar-tender who were those strange fellows who had just departed. “Why, don’t you know?” she replied. “Those arc New Zealand tanks in action !”

The National Service League is preparing a petition for presentation to the Efficiency Board, urging the establishment of memorial workshops in New Zealand on the lines of the Lord Roberts’s Memorial Workshops established in England after the South African War. In these workshops partially incapacitated soldiers arc trained and work at a trade in congenial surroundings. They have around them men who understand them, and they feel that they arc being restored to a useful place in the civilian community. In England, since the war began, the workshop system has been considerably expanded, and workshops of all kinds are now established in many centres, manufacturing all kinds of articles and training many men. France is training every one of its disabled soldiers and sailors. Australia has voted £60,000 for the same purpose.

The collection of agricultural and pastoral statistics for the season 1917-18 has been now sufficiently advanced to enable preliminary figures to be given for the dominion. Complete returns have so far been received from 119 counties out of the 125 which comprise the dominion. Estimates have been made for the remaining /counties. The total yield of wheat for threshing is estimated at 6,761,249 bushels as against 5,051,227 for 1916-17. The yield of oats for threshing is estimated at 4,785,391 bushels—a falling off of 576,045 bushels on last year’s figures. Last year 738,050 bushels of barley were grown for threshing, and this year a yield of 572,061 bushels is anticipated. It is expected that there will be a yield (for threshing) of 363,689 bushels of maize as against 274,283 hi 1916-17. The estimated yield of ryegrass (25,515.7371b5) shows an increase over last year’s final figures of 2,465,988. It is anticipated that cocksfoot will yield 2,383,9871b5, potatoes 97,944 tons, the figures for last year being respectively 1,907,043 and 133,642. There should be a total acreage of 441,295 (against 526,283) and 8611 (against, 9073) of turnips and mangolds respectively.

Speaking at tic Dunedin Technical College on Friday, tic Hon. J. A. Hanan, Minister of Education, said that during the first eighteen years of their lives many of the Dominion’s young people grew up under home and school conditions which were comparative!j' easy, and they expected a continuance of such times for the rest of their lives, believing that the world owed them a living. He was not prepared to say that parents were not in some instances responsible for this state of affairs by reason of the easygoing influence of the home and the desire of some parents to see their boys and girls living without soiling their hands. Some youths were growing up under the belief that to labour with the hands was the other fellow’s misfortune. The Minister said there were differences in aptitudes and capacities among young ;>eople. He was a strong believer in higher education at State institutions for those, who would profit by it, and for full provision being made for free education for the training of the bright intellects (whether found in the cottage or the mansion 1 for the service of the State. He did not wish to sec so many youths of average minds, who had aptitudes for trades or farming pursuits in which they would attain a high standard of skill and efficiency, influenced away from industrial work and taking up clerical, unskilled work, or misfit. occupations. Ho was anxious that this type should take advantage of the facilities offered for obtaining suitable training and instruction at technical schools.

A very interesting lecture on physical (.raining as now practised in the British Army and in the colonial armies allied to it, including the New Zealand Army, was given by Captain Brocks, M.C., to the Wellington Officers’ Institute last week. Captain Brocks is bayonet and physical instructor to the New Zealand Forces in the training camps. It is the wish of the Territorial officers to introduce into the Cadet and Territorial Forces a system of training similar to that which has produced such wonderful results in-the camps. Captain Brocks introduced his talk with some general remarks on (he importance of physical fitness among the" soldiers of an army. The aim of the present system was to produce allround physical fitness and to provide a reserve of power in order that, the body might do the work required of it without strain and injury to the system. It aimed also at teaching speed, strength, accuracy,, agility and endurance. The training also was plotted to create and ensure a good cooperation of mind and body. He said that the imjwrtance of games as an adjunct to physical training could not be over-esti-mated, but they were not in themselves sufficient. Some games tended to one-sided development, and the chief objection to this was that they did not help the man who was not proficient. This man usually became a mere looker-on. He, detailed the several series of exercises, mentioning their effect, in the promotion of general good health. He said that of the first 40,000 balloted men 1600 were "turned down” for fiat feet, and taking into account also of those rejected for deficient chest measurement, these defects, both possible of correction by physical training, cost the fighting forces the loss of two battalions of infantry. Fortunately most of these men had been recovered by the training at the Cl camp.

“O'Grady says” or “Simon s - ays” is a game which adults will recollect as a pastime of childhood, played when they were tiny tots of seven. If they are told that this game and others modelled on the children's amusements arc entered into with zest by the soldiers in France they will be inclined to smile. But this is a fact, and not by any means absurd. Captain Brocks, M.C., explained to the Garrison officers at Wellington last week that war-weary men coming from the trenches were inclined to rest up. That could not be allowed; they must, be kept, fit, so the authorities designed a variation of the army physical training system which introduced many of the oldtime games, “touch,” “hunt the slipper,” and so on. “It would astonish you to see men of 35 and 40 entering whole-heartedly into these games.” If the officers had been surprised at the statement, they understood it perfectly when a demonstration was given by a detachment of assistant instructors from Trentham. The results were amusing to the onlookers, and the men also appeared to derive much pleasure, from the play. For example, they were given physical drill on the “O’Grady says” system. An order preceded by the word? “O’Grady says” was to be obeyed; otherwise I. -.v:is to be disregarded. Any man making a mistake was penalised with some extra exercise. Keen and alert as the men were there were mistakes enough to keep the fun going. Captain Brocks was an excellent demonstrator, and it could be understood that the idea developed on the lines he showed, with “heaving the dead man,” “crows and cranes,” and so on, would waken the weariest class and make it exercise even against its inclination.

• Evidently there are a number of people desirous of disposing of their properties to the Defence Department for conversion into military hospitals. Since war broke out many stories have been heard’ of people selling to the Government at enormous profits, and it is these, there is little doubt, which have inspired what Colonel Valintinc described as “offers to sell at about twice as much as the property is worth.” As our representative conversed with him yesterday a letter was handed to the Colonel which, before opening, be dubbed as “another one.” Sure enough the writer had heard that previous negotiations had fallen through and thought that his property might be suitable. He would motor the Colonel on a visit of inspection at a moment’s notice. That was at 1.15, and Colonel Valintinc caught the express. For Sale —Large quantities of first-class Groceries in quantities to suit purchasers. Quality high, but prices so low' as to give real satisfaction to every purchaser At BAXTER’S.—(Advt.) 'vow showing—Spring Millinery and Rcady-to-Wears. THE ECONOMIC, Ladies’ Outfitters, next George Munro’s.—(Advt.) “STICKING IT OUT.” The war is a test of endurance. To “stick it out,” it is incumbent upon soldiers and civilians alike to keep lit and strong. This is best achieved by taking a course oi WILSON’S MALT EXTRACT. Being the concentrated essence of the finest Malted Barley, it is the most nutritious food tonic imaginable. Moreover, the diastase in it enables one to assimilate other foods properly, and to get every particle of nourishment out of them. Thus it is strength-producing, flesh-forming, unsurpassed for anyone who needs building up. Try taking at mealtimes a spoonful of this great extract, and sec if it's not the best tonic food you ever tasted. Prepared also with Cod Liver OiL Chemists and Stores. 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Buy Striking advances by the Allies on the Western Front is glorious news to everyone, but the advances that are occurring in the Drapery hue are ,like the British, ever onward. H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., The Popular Drapers, Taj' street, are direct importers, and by being right on the spot in the Home markets we are able to buy large quantities to be delivered, during certain seasons. In our Dress Department we hold large stocks, and owing to our keen buying we can offer these goods at a figure that will not allow competitors to touch it. It is not necessary to state prices, but come along and see for yourselves. Our Mail Order Branch is under the supervision of Mr W. Lyall, who personally sees to every order sent. H. & J. SMITH, Ltd., The Progressive Drapers, Tay street. — (Advt.) SECOND DIVISION MEN. Family men should know the immense value of FLUENZOL, which is indispensable in camps for throat and nasal troubles. For a comprehensive display of all that is fashionable in style and attractive in appearance in Spring Millinery the selection now on view in the Millinery Showroom at PRICE <fc BULLEID’S, Ltd., Tay street, would be difficult to surpass. Ine slock has been most carefully selected and offers a good opportunity for those on the lookout for something really up-to-date from which to make a selection. This firm (PRICE <k BULLEID, Ltd.), has for many jrears held a good reputation for their Millinery stocks. This year is to be no exception, whether it is a model of the more pricy order a semi-trimmed or a smart Ready-for-wear they certainly have the goods. Untrimmed shapes are also stocked in great variety for anj’ wishing to have special orders executed, in this branch ol the Millinery trade. They excel for promptness in execution and moderation of price. (Advt.) Delays arc dangerous with colds and influenza. Get NAZOL to-day. Better than mixtures or syrups. No cold is NAZOLproof. 1/6 buys 60 doses. See UNDRILL’S about Shirts—a big range at prices lower than market value.—• (Advt.) Tackle coughs and colds by using NAZOL. That’s the sensible and cheapest way. NAZOL is penetrating, germ-killing—and most economical. 60 doses 1/6. THE HOUSEWIFE WHO IS “CANNY” WITH HER FURNITURE Gets us to remove it. Furniture costs money, and it’s just wasting cash to put the work of “shifting” into the hands of someone who has neither the ability nor the facilities to do the work properly. Our hands are thoroughly experienced and our vans eminently suitable. As a result you get a splendid "shift” from us. THE NEW ZEALAND EXPRESS CO., LTD.—(Advt.) Keep NAZOL bandy in >-our office, shop or home. A few drops or whiffs will prevent coughs and colds. Prevention is better than cure.

MOTOR HIRES. WOODS & CO. have NOT raised the price of Motor Car Hire. Ring up phones 643 and G47 —day or night.— (Advt.J As a protection against coughs and colds NAZOL has no equal. One dose a day keeps colds away. Can be taken anywhere. Sixty doses 1/6. The best costs least when you buy NAZOL. Sixty doses of this sterling remedy for roughs and colds cost eigbt-ecn-pence —and every dose does good.