GENERAL ITEMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 76, 27 February 1918, Page 8

GENERAL ITEMS.

A Wellington press telegram states .that for the first time in six years the police presented ;i clean sheet at 'the Magistrate's Court yesterday ' morning. i A well-known figure passed away on the Sol way showgrounds last week, when the Anzac pig thai, had heen so i instrumental in raising patriotic funds ' decided to leave this world of trouble. I "Anzac" had been decorated by his I patriotic: sponsor with the object ot again being offered in the ram fair ring for the purpose of raising funds for the Soldiers' Club but death intervened. Last year "Anzac" realised over £2OOO in the ram fair ring for the patriotic funds. i 'At a representative meeting at Pihama on Friday evening the enemy alien question was discussed and on the. motion of Messrs R. W. •». McNeill and S. Campbell it was unanimously resolved: "That this meeting of residents of Pihania and district heartily approve of enforcement ol the legislation as laid down by President "Wilson for the'internment of all enemy property, and we would urge upon the Government of New Zealand the urgent need for more stringent regulations regarding the same." Complaints having been made of delay in connection with the payment of soldiers who have returned from abroad, the Minister of Defence received a report from the Claims Board on the subject. The report states: "After inquiry the Board is convinced that on the whole the arrangements of the War Expenses Department in the matter of soldiers' pay are satisfactory. The Board continues to find readiness on the part ol the officer in charge of the Department to rectify any irregularities brought under notice." 1

Herewini Wakarua, of Waitotara, son of Iwiora Kakarna, was killed on the French front about a month ago. When Herewini decided to go to the front he and his father talked the matter over, and the latter said that as, in the ordinary course of events, he had fewer years to live than his. son, and as the sou.'.had just completed a very good education, it would be better for Iwiora to go. This proposal, however, was not acceptable to the son, who persuaded the father to let him go, the father promising that if the son were killed he would go to take his place. True to his word Iwiora left for camp on Friday, where he is now in training to take; his place in the Great Fight.