ENLARGEMENTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18162, 26 April 1921, Page 4

ENLARGEMENTS.

That photograph that you intend getting enlarged—bring It along to the Tesla Photo Studios, opposite the Post Office, Wanganui. They make exquisite enlargements in black and white, sepia, oils, or water colours, at city, prices. NOTE.—Appointments made town or country. ’Phone 381. Established 1908.

"We will be very lucky if we get through the next twelve months without having a breakdown as big as the last one,” said Cr. R. W. Green, chairman of the Tramways Committee, in referring to the tramways at a meeting at the Gonville Town Hall last evening. Teaching history by reconstruction was undertaken during last week at Te Awamutu (states the New Zealand Herald). A number of school children, both European and Maori, were taken to Orakau Pa, and the historic light in which Rewi Maniapoto hurled his defiance at tho pakeha was re-enacted by them in all detail. One incident, however, marred the realism of the scene. The Maori defenders were making their escape, leaving their dead behind them, while the attackers were charging down on the pa. Whether overcome by the excitement of the moment or daunted by the fierce aspect of the attackers, the “dead” suddenly rose and ran with the swiftest of the escaping warriors.

The old adage, “Take care of the pennies and pounds will take care of themselves,” was wiell proven at St. Matthew’s (Christchurch) parishioners’ meeting on Tuesday evening, when the treasurer of tho Building Fund (Mr W. T. Armitage) reported the extinction of the loan of £lOOO raised in 1913 towards the building of the new vicarage and schoolroom. A sum of £l4OO had been Raised in less than seven years by small weekly contributions of “ not less than Id per week,” which had been placed in little red collecting boxes issued to parishioners and others in 1913. and from those boxes by a small but faithful band of collectors ever since. Incidentally, Mr Armitage mentioned that contributions had been received from so far afield as Newfoundland and London. A business man of Melbourne writes to a Christchurch friend as follows:—“I saw in one of the papers here that there is some talk of electrifying the railways in New Zealand. They have them running on some of the suburban lines in Victoria, and they are a great success. They look very funny, going along without an engine, as they give the appearace of runaway trains. They start very smoothly, gather pace very quickly, and stop quickly and smoothly. There is no engine smoke and they travel much faster than the steam trains, and are, of course, lighted by electricity. They would be just the thing for the LytteltonChristchurch line, but would be too expensive to instal for the Christ-church-Dunedin express, the distance being too far for such a few trains.” ‘ New' Zealand rugs became famous in most parts of the world before the war. They were recognised to be of a quality scarcely procurable from any other source, and the woollen companies of the Dominion used to receive orders from London, New York, and many other cities. To-day very few rugs are being produced by the factories owing to the concentration of effort in other directions, and it seems that there is some danger of the reputation that the New Zealanders made being uscyl for the advantage of another country. An American business man, who was in the Dominion recently (states our Wellington correspondent) took away with him samples of the rugs and of the wools usel in their manufacture, and he stated that, he intended to see if an American factory could not produce the same quality of goods. “I could sell 100,000 of these rugs every year, if I could get them ” he said.

The Official Year Book for 1920 gives its usual interesting review and analysis of the industries of the Dominion. In most of the industries a numerical advance is shown for 1918-1919 over 1915-1916, though engineering, publishing and printing, and tailoring establishments are slightly fewer in number. The clothing manufacturing establishments have mounted from 83 in 1915-16 to 156 in 17918-19, Butter, cheese, and dried milk establishments also show a substantian increase. The total number of male and female employees in manufactories is given as 66,910. The total horsepower in use in all establishments was 158,996 in 1918-19, a considerable increase on the previous period. The most remarkable development, states the Year Book, was the large increase of electric motors in use. The value of the outputs and much more information of an interesting nature is given. v

Details of New Zealand’s war effort in men and money will be found authoritatively stated, for the first time, in the 1920 Official Year Book. The total number who attested in the Expeditionary Force and who left for service overseas was 3085 officers, 91,809 other ranks, and 550 nurses. A total of 992-1 troops were in training at the date of the Armistice so that the complete number of nurses and troops provided for service overseas at the cessation of hostilities was 110,368 or more than 10 per cent, of the Dominion’s mean population in 1914. A further total of 3370 ■ are known to have left New Zealand to serve in British and Australian forces. Of the total of 124,211 men provided from the commencement of the war 91,941 were voluinteers. Wastage while undergoing training accounted for a loss to the farce of 11,333. The total number of deaths from the war and its consequences in the Expeditionary Force was 16,781. At May, 1920, some 3057 service patients were still undergoing treatment in New Zealand. The total war expenditure up to March 31st, 1920, is given, as £76,953,076. “There is much cause for thankfulness at the success which has been achieved in the repatriation of discharged soldiers,” runs a passage in the Christchurch Returned Soldiers’ Association’s annual report. “Probably no country which participated in the war has a better record in this, direction than has New Zealand. Since its inception, the Canterbury Repatriation Department has found employment for 5170 men, and has 23 on its unemployed register to date. It has received 2123 applications for furniture loans, of which 1884 have been granted, involving an amount of £84,185. It has received 1823 applications for business loans, of which 1248 have been granted, involving an amount of £162,237. It has 121 men in training in technical schools, colleges, a.T/1 State training farms; and 393 m/n in workshops as subsidised workers. Nearly 300 men have completed their training in various trades. A demonstration farm was commenced at Avonhead in September last for the purpose of training disabled soldiers in poultry farming, beekeeping, and horticulture. At present 24 men are receiving training, and nine have completed their course.”

Among the new companies recently gazetted appears the “Manawatu Standard,” Ltd., Palmerston ' North, registered as a private company. Capital, £30,000; subscribers (in equal shares), N. H. Nash and J. Coombe. At the meeting of the Wanganui East householders last evening the chairman Mr E. V. Laws) paid a warm tribute to the good work of Dr. Elizabeth Gunn in the schools in dealing with children’s teeth and goitre. The householders passed a motion of appreciation of Dr Gunn’s work.