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Taranaki Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 16448, 4 June 1919, Page 2

Wo ’ have received the sum of 10s from the Postal Officers’ Dot Club for the Nurses’ Hall Fund. It is understood that the Biddiford estate have sold the Egmont Hotel premises at Hawera and the other buildings in the block to Mr. T. C. Gonnloy, for about £37,000.

We understand that several sections in Mr. Stanley Shaw’s South Road property have changed hands''during the past few weeks. The. purchasers in each instance intending to build shortly. There is a story current that a, cargo of coal arrived, in Wanganui River one day last week, but this happened to be race day, and the men would not work the ship. So the cargo was sent to Picton. A well-trained mind brought to boar on any problem will get all the facts and analyse the past history of each section of tho problem, and the verdict will be well in accord with justice, and must, obviously, advance the race. The Labour Party knows that until the public thoroughly understand the complex; question of production and distribution there is no real hope of sound reform. They have, therefore, sent two of their leaders to place theif views on the coal question (which is tho burning question of the day) before tiie people of New Plymouth. To-ni'dit in the Empire Theatre at 8 o’clock.

The* annual meeting of the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce will he held in the Soldiers’ Club rooms, on Friday next. Members are particularly requested to be present.

Blankets are practically unobtainable. Don't waste time looking for any. You can keep warm o’ nights at little cost by purchasing a chintz kapoc quilt, full size,, for 24s 6d, at The Melbourne, Ltd.*

The art of washing _ clothes clean without rubbing! Slice into copper six ounces..QLtbo p.ucsJl&QMai Rule’.’ Soap, add small packet of “No Rubbing” Laundry Help, boil briskly for thirty minutes, then rinse thoroughly, blue and hang out. Result will delight you.

All wise mothers use Wade’s Worm Figs. Eradicate worms of all descriptions, Price Is 6d. 3

A large gathering of Tnkaora settlers wms held last week to welcome ©d soldiers, and it was a striking sign of the times that there was: not a single horse-drawn vehicle there; ail motor cars.

The second meeting of the Whiteley Club was held on Tuesday evening, when there was an attendance of about 50 members. It took the form, of a “Question Box,’’ and great interest was taken in the various answers submitted by those present. Coventry during the war was probablyi the busiest munition centres in England, but now the only business enjoying war-time activity is the ribbon trade. All the ribbon for soldiers’ medals is made in Coventry, and it is stated that the Government orders will occupy two years of constant work.

The number of marriages being celebrated in New Plymouth to-day appears to have boon unusually large. One protographer. before the day was out was called on by five parties of newly-married people who wanted their photographs taken. . A broad trail of confetti afterwards marked the studio and its entrance.

A Southland Times reporter was shown on Tuesday a remarkable sample of wool, 27 inches in length, part of a 351 b fleece taken from an outlaw on Mr, J. J. M'Crostie’s run, Glencairn, Waikaia. The wool was very fine and even, without a break in tiie growth, and was shorn from a halfbred animal, which has defied capture until a few days ago.

Ail earthquake which occurred at the Friendly "Islands ou April 30 was followed by a tidal wave estimated to be eight- feet high, which did considerable damage on Haapai. Vavau and Nukualofa escaped, damage. The extent of the damage on Haapai is not known, the only information having, been received by Natives in the other groups. It is understood no lives were lost.

Sir Jamea Allen has been authorised by Mr. Massey (Prime Minister and leader of the Reform Party) to issue the following statement; “The Reform Party will continue strictly loyal to the compafet entered into at the time the National Government was formed until the separation of the two parties to the compact takes place.” On the return of the leaders (Mr. Massey and Sir Joseph Ward) to New Zealand, should it then bo decided to end the compact, a progressive programme, consistent with the requirements of the country and its position as an important part of the Empire, will ho issued. The promptitude with which Air. F. E. Rogers pulled ujj the borough council’s motor lorry at the corner of Devon and Liardot Streets this morning appears to have been the moans of averting a serious accident. The lorry was about to turn the corner from Devon Street east when Mr. W. H. Pillar, an elderly man, who was riding a bicycle round the same corner in the opposite direction, appears to have endeavoured too late to pass the lorry on his left-hand side. Both cycle and the lorry were proceeding slowly and when the collision occurred the latter was pulled up with a wheel crushing one of the cyclist’s hands. Mr. Pillar was taken to the hospital, to have the injury attended to and was afterwards able to proceed home. The heel of one of his boots was torn off in tiie accident.

“The Silent Division”—the name earned at the front by the' New landers—was mentioned at the railway gathering in Wellington. Major W. G. Wray, M. 0., a returned officer, alluded to it. further. The New Zealand Division, he said, was one of the three best divisions in France—the other two wore the Guards and the Highlanders. Ir. digging, the New Zealanders were far ahead of all others. 'They did not have a good long-handled shovel, but a silly little affair that made the back ache. “I never dreamt that the. New Zealand Division would ever be called the ‘Silent Division’—not when they were digging, anyway.” (Laughter.) Major Wray said that the New Zealand Tunnellers could beat anything in Fi ance, and next to them came the Engineers. The Engineer was not a gentleman who walked round with a theodolite; he was just a. “damn sapper.” He never knew the New Zealanders set to do a piece of work estimated to take six hours, but that they did it in four and a-lialf.

A special meeting of the Peace Ball Committee is advertised for to-morrow evening at the- Coronation Hall, at 6 p.m. Business important. The third meeting of the home nursing classes will be held in the old hospital to night.

The 'Women’s National Reserve is arranging a musical afternoon tea on Saturday next for soldiers’ mothers, which will be held in the Whiteley school-room at 2.30 p.m. This is the first of the winter social teas and it is the wish of the Reserve that all soldiers’ mothers and wives will accept the invitation, especially those wives who have cojue from abroad. All returned soldiers will be very welcome.