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Wanganui Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15341, 2 October 1917, Page 4

For washing clothes clean always use No Rubbing Laundry Help with Golden Rule Soap. The cost is trifling for such excellent results. Wanganui Grocers *. ■

Yesterday the masters, mates, engineers, and cooks of eleven coastal steamers affected by the seamen’s dispute were paid off at Wellington. Other vessels will pay off to-day. Additional w r ar regulations gazettld last night forbid the exercise of any power conferred by mortgage, bill of sale, or other security over the property of a soldier, without the consent of the Attorney-General.

Nominations for president, vice-presi-dent, and the council of Ihe Chamber of Commerce close at the office of the secretary on Thursday at 5 p.m. the annual meeting wil 1 he held next. Monday evening. * A Dunedin telegram states that acting on the suggestion of a member, the Otago Acclimatisation Society, in view of the scarcity of leather, has decided to have six red deer shot and the skins treated commercially as an experiment. The deer will be taken from the Hawea Forest,

The Dunedin Star says editorially: One other matter to which, reference may fittingly he made is the need for Parliament obtaining the fullest , possible information regarding the cost of equipment and maintenance of the two hospital ships. The bald, figures “Maheno <£200,651” and “Maraxna <£167,471” signify precious little, and do not afford much comfort to the taxpayer. The fear expi’eased in certain quarters that the publication of details of expenditure on these two ships may not he palatable in the highest quarter is, or should be, quite groundless. And in this connection there are some things that a Joseph Hume, if the present House possesses one, may well demand specific information upon, if only to stop the “man in the street” from talking. For example, is it the case, as has been asserted, that the staffs of our two hospital ships do not return to their respective vessels o>i the next voyage to Europe? If’not, ■why not? Or is it the case that tnese stalls receive as long as six months’ furlough, and that many of them during that period return to their ordinary vocations? If these men were reported as physically unfit we should he the last to ‘complain about their temporary release from active duty, as in that case a spell would be w r ell earned; but while people’s tongues are wagging to the contrary there should he a clear-cut official contradiction of such possibilities, otherwise it may become a fixed idea in the public mind that “things are seldom what they seem.”