LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7751, 20 July 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a meeting of the Patriotic Society executive-last evening encouraging reports were received of.assistance promised towards the gift auction to be held in August. The sum of £20,000 appears on the Public Works Estimates for the Napier-Wairoa section of the East Coast Railway and a similar amount for the Gisborne Wairoa section.

In the detailed acknowledgments of tKe children’s collections on Belgian Day, published on Tuesday, Mr McHardy’s gift of £1 was omitted from Miss Craig’s list. Hastings ratepayers yesterday carried two loan polls, one of £13,6*00 for sewer extension, and the other of £BBOO for electrical purposes. There was a substantial majority in each case.

On Saturday the lady members of the Waipawa Golf Club will play the first of the Red Cross medal matches of this season. The gross proceeds of these matches go to the Red Cross Fund. The Ladies’ Patriotic Committee’s shop will be run under the direction of Mrs Grenside, Misses Britten and Hobin next Saturday. There will be a plain sandwich cake competition for a trophy donated by Mrs Limbrick. Voting on the Education Board elections closed yesterday, but the poll will not be counted until August 3rd to allow letters posted before the closing date to reach the office. The result will be made known on August 4th. The Public Works Estimates contain very few new votes, and the old ones have with very few exceptions all been renewed. The following are the Hawke’s Bay new votes: —Roading Tiretu Block £IOOO, roading Upper Gorge Block £1750, Dannevirke Postoffice £4OOO.

The annual meeting in connection with the Presbyterian Church will take place in the Concert Hall of the Municipal Theatre to-morrow evening. It will be preceded by a public tea at 6 o’clock, and the business meeting will follow. An excellent vocal programme has been prepared for the after meeting. In his last despatch from the front, Mr Malcolm Ross, New Zealand official war correspondent, reports that a private under a suspended sentence of five years’ penal servitude behaved with great heroism in one of the trench raids. He was seen boldly standing up under heavy fire repeatedly lifting wounded men over the parapet. His sentence was remitted. Probably owing to their eagerness in watching yesterday’s football match, and in encroaching over the side lines, several lady spectators had an exciting few seconds. One of these, less fortunate than her companions, was unable to get to safety before one of the juniors streaking down the line collided with her, throwing her heavily to the ground. Luckily the only effect of her contact with mother earth was that of shock.

A very fine all-round programme will be screened at the Pictures tonight, headed by the 4000-foot star drama “The Yankee from the West.” This is a typical American story, full of action and exciting incidents, working up to a climax of intense interest. “The Bang Miu Gold Mines” is an industrial film of a most instructive character. Other items in the series are “The Royal Naval Division,” “Gaumont Graphic,” and ‘ ‘ Cutey’s Awakening. ’ ’ “Poster stamps,” in appearance very much like a large postage stamp, have been prepared by the Railway Department for the purpose of advertising the Dominion as a tourist resort. Attractive sample stamps were submitted to the Auckland Chamber of Commerce, and an accompanying letter stated that the stamps would be supplied to business firms at the rate of 5s for 500. On the face of each stamp there is a picture of one of New Zealand’s beauty spots and the words, “Visit New Zealand.’ It is suggested that business firms should affix the stamps to the flaps of letters sent overseas.

To give an idea of the enormous quantity of khaki required for the year 1916 for uniforms, overcoats, working-shirts, and pantaloons, the report of the Munitions and Supplies Department states that the total length of cloth aggregates about 530 miles, or enough to reach from Wellington to Auckland, and 100 miles to spare. It is estimated that between 80 and 94 per cent of the combined output of New Zealand woollen mills will be absorbed for military purposed during the months January to August this year. From September to the end of the year the reduction in the output will enable the woollen mills to devote their attention to the execution of their ordinary trade orders.

Extract from the Public Works Statement, delivered in the House on Tuesday night:—“The Lake Coleridge power scheme now in operation has attained results beyond anticipation. Three units of generating power capable of an output of 6000 horsepower were originally installed. The demand for current warrants the installation of two further units which will bring the output to 10,000 horsepower. Arrangements are in train for utilising the current for tramway traction, the operation of machinery in meat works, flour mills, tanneries, dairy factories, and other established industries in and around Christchurch. The total expenditure to March 31st was £329,719. Survey and investigation for a comprehensive scheme to serve the North Island have been in progress. There are several schemes showing promise. ’ ’