LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7717, 6 May 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Nominations for a vacancy on the Taraurau Road Board close on Saturday, 20th inst. The Borough Council invite tenders for the lease of Church Street Domain for one year. Armstrong and Haining,.sced merchants, of Hastings, have an announcement in our advertising columns re seasonable planting. Announcements to the burgesses are made in this issue by the candidates for the Council vacancy, Mr J. Craig and the Rev. J. D. Smith. The Rev. J. D. Smith, a candidate for the vacant seat on the Borough Council, will deliver an address opposite the post-office at about 8 o’clock to-night.

A meeting of the Patriotic Committee will be held in the Council Chambers on Monday evening to consider proposed alterations to the rules of the War Relief Association, and the appointment of delegate to the conference.

A British general of high rank, who has been on the western front since the outbreak of the war, writes to a friend in Masterton in most optimistic terms regarding the prospects of the near future.—Wairarapa “Age.” Shortage of labor is becoming a serious matter with the County Council, and many small works which it is essential should be done before winter sets in cannot, be touched for this reason. Contractors are experiencing the same difficulty.

The engine attached to the 8 o’clock train from Napier was derailed at the Waipawa railway station last evening whilst shunting, delaying the departure of the train for about an hour. No damage was done to either the engine or the track. An important innovation has been decided upon by the New Zealand Shipping Company. The route lo and from this country and England is to be changed from via Capetown to via Panama Canal. The Rotorua will be the first boat from Home to use the Canal, and the Remuera the first vessel to return to England by the new waterway.

Complaint was made at yesterday’s meeting of the Waipawa County Council of the laxity shown by rangers, and the danger to motorists owing to wandering stock was strongly emphasised. The Council decided to appoint three rangers, one each in Takapau, Hampden, and Onga Onga, with power to operate in any part of the county.

Munitions which had been accumulating at Russian ports because of inadequate railway facilities are now being despatched rapidly to supply depots over newly constructed lines, according to a party of 96 Canadian railway builders who have arrived in New York on the Russian liner Kursk, from Kola Bay. They had just completed a road from Kola Bay, on the White Sea, to Pctrograd. This railway is now in operation. A sugar-bag full of grass-seed reached the Soldiers’ Parcels and Red Cross shop this morning accompanied by the following note, which speaks for itself:—“Tikokino, May sth, 1916. Herewith I am sending you 61b cocksfoot grass-seed collected by the children of this school. I hope you can dispose of it for the benefit of your fund. The Christmas holidays falling due when the seed is ripe, prevented our gathering as much as we could otherwise have done. Yours sincerely, C. A. Eves, headmaster.”

The following programme will be rendered by the Waipawa Brass Band Society, under (he conductorship of Mr B. J. Cosgrove, this evening at 7.45, opposite the Waipawa Trading Company’s premises:—March, “Australia” (A. Lithgow); grand selection, “Viva Scotland’’ (J. Ord Hume); wait/., “Nights of Gladness” (C. Ancliffe); march, “Victoria” (A. Lithgow); overture, “Crown of Merit” (C. W. Bonnet); waltz, “Kiss of Spring” (W. Rolfe); march. “South Street Parade” (T. Bulch); “National Anthem.”

Business was again brisk to-day at the Soldiers’ Parcels and Red Cross shop, and the produce, was disposed of as fast as it was received. Gifts were received from the following:— Meat and poultry: Mesdames Logan and Kennedy, Messrs E. Witherow. W. Simmonds, Kittow Bros., and J. Fleming. Other produce: Mesdames Wheeler, Lewis, Cox, Brittain, McLean, 11. Collett, E. White, Kittow, Avison, T. Williams, W. H. and H. M. Rathbone, Taylor, Miss Britten, Messrs Bradley, Mclntyre, Peters, and Tikokino school children. Mr Langridge made a cash donation of ss. The ladies in charge of the shop were Mrs Bowen and Miss Kittow.