The Te Puke Times

Te Puke Times, 6 December 1918, Page 2

The Te Puke Times

Messrs E. G. and G. Ogram advertise for sale a 1918 Ford motor car in perfect order. The Public Library will re-open on Tuesday next, the room and the books having been thorougly fumigated. It is requested that, all persons having accounts against the local Executive Committee in connection with the influenza epidemic render the same to the Secretaries, Messrs Willcock and Tees, on or before the 11th inst. It is understood that the claim of the Maoris to the ownership of Lake Rotorua, which was partly heard in the Native Land Court by the late Judge Wilson, will be resumed after the New Year before a iudge to be chosen, As the evidence given was taken down in full the hearing will be carried on from the point at which it was left by Judge Wilson. A Te Puke business man has adopted a very simple method of destroying the wily blow fly. On the windowsill he has placed tobacco tins filled with kerosene and when the fly drops to the bottom of the pane, as is usual when they strike the glass, they come in contact with the kerosene, which almost instantly causes death. In this way the gentleman in question \m destroyed hundreds of these deadly germ carriers.

The flax blight is assuming alarming proportions in theManawatu swamps (says an exchange) Its origin is a mvstery, as it attacks not only the leaves in the swamps, but is often noticeable in isolated groups at great distances apart. The careful investigations so far made have quite failed to locate the source of the infection, As a consequence of the blight one mill has 'been dismantled. !

A. Maketu correspon den t writes: " The Maketu hospital is now closed, the last of the patients having left tb-day (Wednesday). There has been a total of about 15 people here ill with influenza during two weei(s, We all owe a deep debt of gratitude to tha nurse, Miss Ryan, who has been ably assisted by Mrs Campbell, Misses Ira and Lizzie Tapsell, and Mrs Newdick. Mrs Campell has practically looked after all the outside patients, as well as doing a very great deal towards the comfort of the School hospital, patients. All. the ladies mentioned have cheerfully given up their ordinary duties so that Ihey might devote all their time to the welfare of the invalids, and they received great assistance from Mr A. T.Harris."

Mr H. E. Butcher notifies in this issue that he is discontinuing permanently the delivery of meat in town and country. He has beeji forced to take this action owfng to the very high and increasing cost of horse-feed and shoeing. Another factor that has influenced him in arriving at this 'decision is the difficulty of obtaining labour. In response to urgent representations he has allowed one of his staff, Mr Reeve, to manage the Paengaroa butchery, recently conducted by the late Mr Rea, and he is unable to fill his place. Mr Butcher wishes to point out however, that although the public may be slightly inconvenienced in one way they will benefit in another, for the alteration will enable him to nvike a reduction of Id per lb all round in the price of meat, The new scale will come into force on Monday next. A Queensland timber cutter left this notice on his hut: "You all take this notice I have gone to fight Germany, and I don't know how long the }ob may take. Somebody chip round my humpy and so save it from bush fires. All my bullodft are sold except old Sambo-him with the cock horn. Anyone finding him can sell to the butcher and he will mind • the money till I come back." Beit recorded to their credit that the residents have complied with all the terms of the notice. Don't judge (Jornfloure-by the packet. It's quality that counts— DVKYEA MAWISNA first' finality,

The annual meeting of shareholders in the East Coast Freezing Company will be held at Whakatane on Saturday, 14th inst. The Government offices throughout New Zealand will be closed on December 25, 26, 27, and 28 (Christmas holidays) and on January land 2 (New Year's holidays). The munificent sum of '£500 appears on the Public Works estimates for the erection of a Courthouse in Te Puke„an amount that four years ago was considered altogether inadequate. Arrangements are being made by the Defence Department to secure for any of our soldiers who wish to remain in Great Britain for a given period, either for pleasure or business purposes, the right to so remain.

There are to be no sittings of the Native Land Court or the Maori Land Board until after the New Year, as it is deemed unde sirable that any gathering of Natives should take place until all possible danger in connection with the influenza epidemic has passed away. t1

The Defence Department has issued instructions that men recently demobilised from the training camps must not wear the military great coat except in full uniform. ' The removal of buttons and dyeing the coat is also forbidden.

Sir Jas. Allen, stated in the House on Wednesday that Dr Endletsburger was sent to Rotorua because it was a matter of life and death for a former patient. The Defence authorities gave consent. Dr Endletsburger went to Rotorua and returned under guard, and was now in Motuihi again.

American soldiers who reached Europe were impressed by two wonders-a wonder of the sea and a wonder of the British navy. '' The eternal distance at first impressed us," said one, "for it seemed impossible that any navy could- police such a space. Yet everything was safe and snug, Only one excitement (a ship that did not signal satisfactory,) Lord, a converted cruiser simply leapt there to get the right answer. Then the destroyers and the saucy skimming torpedo launches in the danger zone! Not a peep of danger anywhere, We said among ourselves : This, then, is what British sea power means.

The mine found washed up. on the beach about 6 miles north of the Manawatu Heads was destroyed )aat week (says the Foxton Herald), the explosion being distinctly heard in Foxton. The naval engineers motored through from Wellington in the morning. In blowing up the;mine a tenminute fuse was used, and no one w.'is allowed within half a mile. Splinters and pieces of metal were hurled a distance of 500 yards, and a hole about 30ft round and 10ft deep was made in the ground. The clockwork of the mine was afterwards found, and was taken back to Wellington. The mine ' had apparently been anchored in position in the water, there being a chain hauser attached to it, which was broken.

Mr W. H. Field (Otaki) intends to move in the House of Representatives : "That it be an instruction to the Dominion's re* presentatives at tye Peace Conference to urge that in future the manufacture of warlike arms, stores, and munitions shall be in State hands, and not those of powerful private individuals and companies, there being little doubt that the private ownership |of arms and munition factories was one of the potent facte in bringing about the great war." At the last meeting of the Tauranga Borough Council it was decided to forward the following resolution to the Prime Minister: "The Mayor and Councillors of the Tauranga Borough, on behalf of the citizens, would respectfully urge upon your Government the vast importance from a national point of view of the East Coast Main Trunk railway, involving as it dors the development of the great potentialities of product) )n of the Bay of Plntv. -Also in order that the very best results lrny be achieved from the part now constructed it is essential that this portion should hr linked up with the main lines of the Dominion as speedily as possible by a vigorous prosecution of the section from To Maunga to Waihi, including the bridge across the haibour, and that a sum be placed upon the estimates, commensurate with the great importance of the work of the Dominion," It tastes good to mo-and will to you too-DURYEA'S MAI2BNA Cornflour.