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Te Puke Times, 2 September 1919, Page 2

Owing to the extremely wet weather that prevailed on Saturday last the clearing sale on account of Mr A. W. J. Abbott was postponed until Friday next.

' Arrangements are well in hand for the Catholic Social to be held in the Alliance Hall on Wednesday night, and, if the weather is favourable, there should be a large attendance. Mrs Bell will have charge of the supper arrangements.

Mr and Mrs F, Earp, who have been connected with the Presbyterian Church at Belmont from its inception, are leaving shortly for Te Puke, Mr Earp has been organist ever since the church opened, and at the present time he is secretary and treasurer of the church.-Star.

New Plymouth lays claim to possessing the youngest soldier who served in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. It is said the lad, who is remarkably wellgrown for his age, enlisted when 14, had three and a half years' service in France and Egypt, was wounded twice, and returned to New Zealand just as he reached his nineteenth year.

Some senseless individual has on Beveral occasions during the past fortnight, amused himself by springing out of the hedge near the Maternity Home and frightening persons who happened to be passing at a late hour, One of the nurses at the institution mentioned is said to have been so terrified that she fainted A good fhrcwr.injr, would p.-oUibly teach the' fool who ia perpetrating this idiotic joke tho error of his ways,

j At a meeting of the Town j Board last eveniug, at which the newly-elected Town Clerk, -Mr 1:1 •: p. was present, it was decided iiicH the Board's, office should be i open on two days of the week j only, Tuesdays and Fridays, be- : tween the hours of 10 a,m„ and ] 4 p in. The will of the late Mrs Rathbone, of Waipawa, Hawke'sßay, has been sworn for probate at under £260,000. Bequests are made to various members of the family, and the will then directs i that half the revenue shall be set aside for charitable, educational, and religious purposes. Notice is given by the Bay of Plenty Dairy Association that cream-carts will run ou the No. 2, Te Matai, Rangiuru, and Te PukePaengroa roads on Tuesdays, Fridays, and Sundays from today .(September 2). A further . notice relatiye to cans being in- , sufficiently marked is inserted '. by the manager of the Tauranga I Dairy Association.

An interesting experiment regarding pinus insignia is being undertaken by the Public Works Department at Waikiekie. A number of one-roomed huts and a boarding-house are being built to accommodate the. railway workers, and the bulk of the wood used will be pinus insignis. Some thousands of feet have been ordered from a local mill for the purpose. :

"You appear to have a prejudice against dancing," said a parishioner to a minister of a certain religious denomination. "No," replied the minister, "I have never said anything against dancing; as "a lad,'in common with the children of both sexes, we ware taught dancing, but if you mean "hugging to music," then I must confess I don't approve of it."

At the meeting of the Cemetery Board on Saturday the Chairman (MrLally). stated that, he,had been looking up the burial warrant book, and found that a number of interments had been made recently without authority having been obtained, This was a most serious offence, and was punishable by a heavy penalty. It was a matter that the Board should not overlook, and he asked the members what action should, betaken. It was decided that the Chairman take any stepa that he considered necessary,

A chaplain lately returned to England from a base hospital tells of a dying Scottish soldier whom he was called up to see in the night, The soldier assured the padre that he had arranged all his earthly affairs, thanked him for his ghostly ministrations, and endwibvsajitig that there was one question he would litte to ask, and that the padre promised he would do his best to answer. "Well, sir, ye've made me sure that I shall go to heaven, but wud it no be possible for me to pass through Aberdeen on the way."

The following motion was unanimously passed at a meeting of the Minister's Association, at Masterton:.'That-this association, while recognising Sir James Allen's earnest endeavours to secure the military efficiency of our forces, ; views with misgivings his proposal to segregate lads at the critical age of 18 in military camps for four. months in the year. The association emphasises the fact that the real strength of the land is the moral integrity of our youths, and nothing that would imperil that can be counter-balanced by anv experiment to increase military efficiency.".

No action is to be taken by the general committee of the Canterbury A, and P. Association relative to the request of the Fielding A. and P. Association for the endorsement of the resolution of the Feilding Farmers' Freezing Company that pressure should be "brought on the Government to setup a committee of expert producers familiar with the meat business, both from the farmers' and the freezing companies' points of view, to proceed to England to investigate the position at Home, and, if possible, to arrange for the future distribution of our meat." Sir George Clifford said he thought the suggestion was an impracticable one,

In the course of an eloquent speech in both English and Maori, in which he bade Admiral Jellicoe and the officers and men of the New Zealand a welcome to Wellington, the Hon. Dr Pomare stated, "I, too, have British blood in me. Sometimes some friends of mine say that I got it in a very peculiar way; that it was because an ancestor of mine absorbed a Presbyterian missionary. (Laughter). But, at any rate, it is good blood." (Applause). Both pakeha and Maori, he said, had good cause to be proud of the blood that was in them. They had fought each other; now they had fought the enemy side by side; and they would henceforth be one united race, (Applause).