The Waipawa Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7916, 9 August 1917, Page 2

The Waipawa Mail. THURSDAY, AUGUST 9,1917. LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A patriotic fete held at Elsthorpe on Friday last in aid of the Y.M.C.A. Trench Comforts Fund realised over £2OO.

The continued wet weather is proving very disastrous to the lambing, and as a result the percentages ail round the tlistrict will this year be much under the average.

Discussing the position of the Second Division in the House on Tuesday night, Sir James Allen said he did not think a ballot would be held before November or December, nor the men go into camp till January or February. They would leave the Dominion some months later.

The monthly meeting of the Waipawa Borough Council takes place tomorrow evening.

Sir James Allen has received advice that the second portion of the 28th Reinforcements report “all well” from their port of call. Members of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee were busy this afternoon packing parcels of Christmas comforts for the boys at the front.

At Napier yesterday a dairyman named William Phipps was fined £25 for selling milk under the standard. The analysis showed that it contained 20 per cent, of water. The Waipawa Brass Band Society will give their twelfth concert next Sunday afternoon in the main street, commencing at weather permitting.

By a fall of rock in the Taumarunui district-two men in the employ of the Public Works Department, John Maloney and Frederick Baddeley, were killed.

Takapau’s Y.M.C.A. effort has so far realised £4Ol 12s Hid, of which sum Miss A’Deane, Ashcott, collected £220 10s 6d. Her list was headed by a cheque for £lO3 by Mr J. B. A ’Deane.

A cheque for £2 2s from Mr W. Little, Argyll, for the Y.M.C.A. Trench Comforts Fund, and an additional donation of 10s from Mr J. Riddles, bring Waipawa’s total to £29 12s 6d.

Owing to the high prices being charged for galvanised iron, a firm of builders at Greytown are splitting shingles for roofing purposes. It is anticipated that as shingles are so much cheaper than iron they will come once more into common use..

At the monthly meeting of the Waipawa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board to-day Mr J. Carston will move requesting the Government to set up a Royal Commission to inquire into the administration of X-rays at the Dannevirke Hospital. The following assisted with donations for the mystery bags sold last week:—Bibby Bros., Trading Co., E. E. Bott, S. Bott, R. W. Todd, A. E. King, Miss Bott, J. Watts, N.Z. Clothing Factory, P. Brittain, Mrs Bert White, L. Bowen, Hannah and Co., Hood Bros., and T. Williams.

Evidence of the effect of the continued wet weather is manifest right along the line between Waipawa and Napier in the great amount of surface water lying about, and anything like a steady downpour for a day or so would cause a flood of serious proportions. As the Rotorua express was approaching Manurewa yesterday morning a porter on the station discovered the body of a man on the cow-catcher. It proved to be the body of a soldier belonging to the Twenty-ninth Reinforcements. Joseph Cartwright, of Paparoa. Il was terribly mutilated. Death must have been instantaneous. The collection made in the Hawke’s Bay Education District Schools for the relief of the victims of the recent London air raid realised £239 5s 2d. Contributions from this district were: Waipawa £6 Bs, Waipukurau £4 12s 6d, Tikokino £3 2s, Ashley Clinton 17s 6d, Blackburn 7s Cd, Omakere 13s, Wakarara £1 2s 6d, Argyll East £1 7s 6d, Onga Onga £2, Ruataniwha £2, Elsthorpe £1 6s, Tamumu 12s, Patangata 7s, Porangahau £ll 2s 2d. Sir Herbert Tree, whose name in the theatrical world is one to conjure with, lias taken to the screen, and the appearance of this celebrated actor in a photo-play marks an epoch in the picture world. Sir Herbert takes one of the leading parts in the film, “The Old Folks at Home,” to be screened at the theatre to-night. It is a powerful story in which the unwritten law plays an important part. This week’s number of the “Patlie Gazette” is an especially interesting number. In the course of an address at the Opera House, Palmerston North, on Sunday night, Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M. (says the “Standard”) remarked that there was an old German in Dannevirke who had been assisted to New Zealand as an immigrant, and had been helped as a farmer until he had become prosperous. He had been asked why he wished the Germans to win. His answer had been: “Well, if the British win, I can still keep my farm; but if the Germans win I will have yours also.” A mention of names in this connection would have given the statement more point. Reservists who are shirking their obligations should take heed of the treatment meted out to several who came before Mr J. W. Poynton, S.M., at the Napier Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Sydney Stanfield Smith, a First Division man whom the police stated had been wandering about the country dodging the ballot, was sentenced to three months ’ imprisonment. J. J. Davidson, who though drawn in the ballot had not gone into camp, received a like sentence. Herbert J. Morton, who pleaded that he had “lost his ticket,” was fined £5. William Warnock Allender, a bankrupt estate agent, appeared for sentence at the Christchurch Police Court on two charges of failing to account for moneys collected by him for another. Counsel for the prisoner said that the total deficiency was £B4O, -of which £522 was trust money. Frien Is of the bankrupt were prepared to find £4OO. The Magistrate said it was a case in which a land agent had for two years been systematically living on trust funds. He sentenced Allender to one month’s imprisonment on the first charge and convicted and discharged him on the second.

A meeting of the National Efficiency Board trustees for this district was held at Waipukurau on Tuesday afternoon. Present: Messrs Davis Canning (chairman), L. Monckton, W. I. Limbrick, W. Rathbone, J. Winlove and C. Wilson (secretary). Reports were received from some of the managers already placed on the properties of absent men. These were examined by the Board and found to be entirely satisfactory. Matters in connection with the properties and business interests of five of the men called up for active service are now being dealt with. Reports of the recent conference at Dannevirke were laid before the Board and discussed. The next meeting of the trustees will be held on Tuesday, August 21st.