LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LX, Issue 17126, 30 October 1917, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Fourteen men out of every fifteen in the armies fighting in Europe have so far escaped death- and wounds, according to statistics compiled by Mr. Roger Babson, the Boston statistician.

" It musi? be good country/ remarked the Chairman of the Military Appeal Board yesterday when an appellant stated that his farm near Pipiriki was carrying three sheep to tne acre.

Commandant Armstrong wishes to tha,nk all who have helped to raise the magnificent total of £1320 10s. locally for the Salvation Army Self-Denial effort; also to acknowledge a cheque of £25 from Mr H. V. Hammond.

Mr. _ Sidney Weller, with the cooperation of the Vicar of Aramoho, proposes to produce Gounod's opera "Faust" in aid of the Red Cress funds, early in the autumn. The chorus will include one hundred performers.

The Tourist Department here 'is officially informed that the Milfoil Sound track -will not be opened fey the Department this season, and that the Government steamer on Lake Te Anau is to cease running.

"Have you any neighbours who could help if you went to the front?" was a question put to a oack blocks farmer appellant at the sitting of the Military Service Board yesterday. "It's a case of me helping my neighbours, even at the present time," he replied.

A farmer in the back country up the Wanganui River, who appealed to the Military Service Board yesterday, had a very poor opinion of boy labour/ "I had one boy to help me," he said, " but after I came back from a trip to town I found he had dried half my cows off, although it was in the flush of the season. Some days' he milked them at 11, and on other days not at all. He also let them into the garden, and they ate all the shrubs round the house."

According to a London correspondent, another interesting chapter is about to be added to one of the romances of the commercial world. Messrs. Henry Beecham, Jas. White, and others are offering the ordinary shareholders in the jpumop Rubber Co., Ltd., £'4 3 000,00G tor the £1,000,000 ordinary share capital, or a premium of £3 per share. The Dunlop Rubber Company was formed twenty years ago, and is now worked in conjunction with the Parent Tyre Co., Ltd., which holds 712,468 of the Dunlop,ordinary shares. The ordinary sharebolders in the Dunlop have received during the past 13 years roughly 800 per cent, in dividends. In other words their capital has been returned eight times over, and the £1 shares are now worth apparently £4 per share. An investment of £100 thirteen years ago would show a return of £1200. The company is managed by Mr. Arthur dv Crps, M.P.

A painful accident occurred about a mile from Turakina on Sunday. > Mrs Herbert Goile, of Turakina, was being oriven in a side-car attached to a motorcycle, when it collided with a cow. Mrs Goilo was -liirown out or the side-car, and broke a leg below the knee. Dr. Warren was sent for and set the broken limA), and the sufferer was taken to the U'langanui Hospital yesterday morning.