LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 18486, 30 October 1917, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Thames County Council gives notice of a poll on tho proposal to raise a loan of £5000. Full partaou■lard are given, in the advertisement.

I Colonel Coissgrove, Chief Scout Commission or, lefit by ithis afternoon's train for Napier, en route to Gisborne, to which, in his official capacity, he is paying his ftmt visit. i A me'etingi o>l memibei's of the. Thames County Katopayeis' Association Avill ba held in the Paj'awjd School, on Wednesday evening next, at 7.30 p.m. In the advertisement, the business is announced to be important.

Funds are beiing raised in the AVesitport district for the establishment, of a "Sick Kid's Ward" at the local hospital. Under existingconditions children are aursed in the ( already overcrowded women's ward (says the Wefctport Times). I The Curt4's Aeroplane Co. (U.S. A.) has received a, ,£10,000,000 order for aeroplanes. Thei plaint will employ 15,000 men on the. job. This company has devised a flying boat which is said to be well adapted to

all the purposes of modern war in the air, and particularly to coasit patrol. The second conference: has failed to a-greie. Sir James Allen asked for a, third oonferemce Which wa«i agreed to. The rmin:igers for the council are Sir F. 8011, Mr. Samuel, Mr. Morgan and Mr. Earnsbi-w,, and for the Housie Mr. Myers, Sir Jas. Carroll, Mr. Parr and Sir James Allen.— Pre»ss Association. Our Auckland coi respondent forwards the latest share quotations! as follows:— 1 Sales: Mew .Zealand Insurance 1555. Auckland trams ord 21si 6d. Buyers: Sylvna reefs ( 4(1, Occidental Id, Waioftn-hi 4d, Rising Sun 2a 8d Talisman 10s 6d, Waihi 365. Junction 16s 3d, Waihi Paeroa 10b 6d.

The Woodville Examiner says that four boys made an unpleasant discovery in the Manawatu, near To Matai, on Saturday afternoon. They saw a hand sticking out of the water, and on examinntioiii found the body of a man. There is no clue to his identity, but the body has evidently been some time hi • the water. '

. Notice is given.'■that, at a special meeting of the • Thames Borough Council held for the purpose on Wednesday, Oct. 24, the following resolution was passed, and will be submitted/ for confirmation at the ordinary meeting of the Council to be held on Thursday, November 22 1-:"

"That the Thames Borough Council doth hereiby by a isipecial resolution intended to oigei'ata as a gpeoial; ordei-, resolve to make the follo\ving by-lawisi" The -.Jjyilaws, Ayhich are in respect to mo|orsi, in respect of sitands for vehicles, in resipedti of dangeroiis goods, and in respect! of billiard saloon^, etc.', are given in the advertisement. j

When Sir Joseph Ward pays his promised visit to Turua to open the new Post Office he is to be met by a deputatiorn', who will place before him the views of Thames' residents respecting the railway line to Pokeno. Arrangements 'should be made to> take him over the routs from Kopu to Waitakaruru,. and lie could then see for himself how flat is the counr try, and how easily it lends itself to railway oonstruofcioo.' Sir Joseph migiht also be shown, thc-i proposed Paeroa route a great portion of which is over a peat bog 1. The difference in cost of c»nEmotion, between the two suggested routes is so large that hk sympathies as Minister of Finance would certainly be enlisted on the slide of the cheaper line.

"The Church has undoubtly failed in the past to lend a sympathetic oar to.lhe just claims and _inspirations of 'the great wage-earning class, which has done so much to produce the wealth of this and other countries," said Bishop Averill in his address to the Auckland Synod on Friday. "If .the Labour movement ha® to some extent developed a corporate spitit and sense. of brotherhood apart from the great: brotherhood of the Church, does the fault lie altogether on the side of the Labour movement?" he asked. The gireat bulk of the workers, he added, were not extremists, fanatics, or iconoclasts, but the real backbone of our and every other empire, and had they not fully justified their claim to such positions by tlieii readiness to sacrifice all in order that the Einpirei might live?