LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12244, 16 February 1918, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

FOOD FOE THE PACK RUSSIA’S PLIGHT.

To-day’s river report is as follows; — Waimakariri North, clear; Waimakariri south, clear; Rakaia, dirty; aßngitata, dirty; Opihi, dirty ; Waitaki, liskble.

A lecture will he delivered at the Caledonian Hall, Worcester Street, tomorrow evening by Mr W. W. Collins on Judas Iscariot. The lecture will commence at 7.15 and is free.

Some time ago the German manufacturers of toys formed an “ Association for the Maintenance of the Common Interests oQ the Toy Industry.” They have now combined in a “ Gorman Toy Union,” which embraces the whole of the toy industry and trade, and is now preparing for after-war competition. The Germans arc not going to let Britain capture the toy trade without a struggle, and they will try to push their toys into all countries. New Zealand among the rest, as soon as the war is ended. The “ Gorman Toy Unon ” has a combined capital: of many millions, and its productive capacity will be enormous.

Harry Lauder spoke on the war from, the steps of a building in Wall Street, New York, recently. Men in thousands thronged to hear him as he urged investment in the Liberty Loan. He thrilled the gathering fo*r half an hour. ‘‘Don’t talk ot money when human lives are at stake. I would give all I eyer owned, every penny, and possession, to have my boy Jack back again.” Mr Lauder’s half-hour speech brought £IOOO in cash for the loan. In camp, later, Lauder sang and made a speech to the officers and men. In the midst of the programme the soldiers shouted, “ Sing us the ‘ Wee House Among the! Heather.’ ” Lauder replied, “ Aye, 111 sing it, hut it’s no song to me; it’s a. hymn. I sang it to the hoys fb(efore the battle of Arras. There were 15,00(1 Scots there then. Many of them are gone now.”

In Sweden, as in Norway, handrails of thousands of horso-power arc spread over the land from never-drying waterfalls. Railways and tramways are electrified. nitrogen is extracted from tno air and metals from the ores. Electric light and energy are spread into villages, agricultural districts, farms, stables, cow-houses and poultry yards. By the aid of one single motor a farmer or a corporation of farmers can perform a number of operations which were before carried out by manual labour. The problem of electric ploughs is solved by an ingenious Swedish invention. Large Swedish districts are or arc going to ho completely electrified, a fact of the utmost importance in. times when manual Labour gets more and more expensive.

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