LOCAL AND GENERAL

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13818, 7 October 1918, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The King has mule 67 appointments ta the Order of the' British Empire for services in connection with th© war. Mrs Ada M. Donald son, Waihi, a.nd Mr George V. Stewart, Katikati, are included in the list. Tenders for additions, in wood,' to the Turua school, will be reoenyed at the office of the Education Board until noon on Tuesday. Oct. 15. Plans, etc., may be seen at the offtce of the Boaml,, and at the i Thames post office. The defeat of Desert Gold in the Spring Stakes on, Saturday oamo'as a surprise,to those people who have followed up the career of the: daughter of Ail Black. It is hoped that she, will acquit herself better in tho remainder of her engagements im Australia. The weather forecast is as follows: Indications are for easterly and backing by east to north, then freshening. 1!%& '"weather will probaibly prove squally arid changeable/ ivith scattered showers. The barometer is falling. Seas rough); tides good, witih. swell on the coast.' ■ "'■'!. ■' ■" ' • ' .':'• *'■ ' ■'■ '.■• Our ■ Auckland correspondenji forwards the laltesit share quotations, as follows:—(Sales: Rising. Sun 2fe lOd, Waihi 4JU 6d, Junction 14s sd, Is 6d, Wilson's Cement 16s 6d, National Bank 122s 6d. Buyer: Golden Belted, Crown 9d, Rising Sunn■itei 9d, TalisWn, 9 S 4d, Waihi 41s 3d, Junction 14s 3d, Waiotaihi 10£ d. Mr Witty, M.P., who kn« been urging upop the Minister for Defence that recruits should not betaken into camp during! tiue prevalence of influenza at- Tirenthani, received the following fc-tejply ftfomi Sir Jaimes Allelni: "Sickness is'so widespread that rocouits are as liable to ir feet ion. a«s much at home as in camp. In camp they will receive medical treatmenw rot po&sil.le in civil life. Fortunately the diseasa is. not severe amongst soldiers." There is & curious kind of irony in the fact that a weapon, once so universal as the sword should now have become hardly more than a meta.phor. We speak, and write, of "victory by the sword," or" of "a peaoe imposefl by the sword," though the sward is now more a. decorative objefot for pan-ade functions thani a piece of tempered steel "for k;lling, purposes. Shrapnel, high -explosives, poison and the resit of the too* lingenioU'S modem devil.ries haive left_ the more heroic weap'cm to rust in -its $heath. Yet it will'probably never be supplanted as a 'metaphor, .because at is picturesque, and haS a/fatd Hin. it which: no other" word possesses. Certainly'poets :<at» not likely to substitute^ attythsn:f? else for it. -" - A I Certain-moiving, picture > , posters displayed on the Hoardings in £ucjvj land! were dondemmed at the meetin|sp of -the Disohargied Prisoners' ', Aid Society,, ? as haying a. tendency to exorcise a - baneful influence on " many young people. The Rev. Ji?. R. ''Jeffreys stated that after a'lons: ex--s>pea-ience in the courts lie was of the opinion that certain types of moving juixstufffis. wera lejsponsiiblei for much of the eVil. It wasi quite impossible for one man to adequately censor the picture lllms for the whole of the Dominion. Ilet would movei that) the Government be recomrr ended to establish a censorship board of five, tiht<sei metL and two women. Bishtopi Averill reifi;irkod /'tha.t th posters -.displayed, otci 'the i hoardings were probably ; worse " in. tiheir influence than the pictures they were supposed' to refxresent, a view with which, other speakers concurred. The resolution was carried.