PUBLIC WARNING.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15788, 9 April 1919, Page 4

PUBLIC WARNING.

PROHIBITIONISTS. If you cross out the words “with compensation” your veto Will be invalid—that is, it will not bocounted. An invalid vote really means an extra vote for the “Trade.”

AH the scenery for tie Dutch comic opera, “The Burgomaster of Hagueodyk,” just given -with, such magnificent success by the Marton Cheeros Company was from the brush of Mr J. G. L. Hewitt, S.M.. who is a scenic painter of great repute.

At a meeting of Hunterville Gun Club Mr D. W. S. Morrison was elected chairman, and Messrs Isaac Bartlett, Angus Cameron, and T. H. S. Mills, committee. Mr Morrison promised to award a medal for the best aggregate for the year, and Mr Isaac Bartlett a gold medal for four monthly shoots. At a meeting of the “Wellington Bowling Association last night, the matter of Sunday play during the tournament held at Auckland was the subject cf a letter from the Dominion Association, which stated that in deference to some visitors a game was played on Sunday. It was resolved to protest against any Sunday play in connection with any tournament held under the auspices of the Association. Peilding’s water supply is menaced, the long-expected break in the watermain in one of the Mestayer tunnels having occurred at about one and a quarter miles from the reservoir. A gang of men is at work affecting repairs, but as the break is in a place difficult to get at, it is not yet known how soon or late the repairs mav be effected. In the meanwhile all users of water in the Borough have been asked to be very economical in its use, for if the break proves serious there ma\ be a shortage of water.

There is some misapprehension regarding the right of undischarged soldiers to vote in the licensing poll, the suggestion having been made that a special permit is needed. Base Records points out that no other document is necessary except the soldier’s status certificate, viz., a certificate of leave with notice of discharge, or sick leave or in-patient’s or out-patient’s certificate. These show that the soldier has not been discharged and is therefore entitled to exercise a soldier’s vote.

Many wonderful operations have been performed at the Edmonton General Military Hospital, which has been a special surgical centre for wounded soldiers requiring prolonged treatment. A specialty of the hospital work is the treatment of fractured femur by a new method, in which bandages are not required. Skin grafting and blood transfusion have been common operations, and E.A.M.C. orderlies frequently volunteered to crive blood to patients. An experiment is now being tried to place a broken bridge of the human nose with a sparrow’s breastbone. A patient who had a piece of bone protruding into the surface of the braiu became so morose and ill-tempered that even the nursing staff avoided him as mucii as possible. The bone was removed by an operation, and afterwards tie man became the most cheerful patient in the hospital, singing and whistling all day long.

At a recent meeting of the committee of Egmont A. and P. Association a letter was received from A. L. Wheeler, Hunterville, thanking the officials and members of the Association for their kind and courteous attention to him while he acted as judge at the summer show. He had also pleasure in giving his expenses as a contribution to the Association. It was decided to write and thank Mr Wheeler for his contribution. A letter was also received from the Stratford A. and P. Association stating that the committee were unanimously in favour of spring shows, who fet that it would be advantageous for associations on the coast to hold their fixtures in rotation—Palmerston North, Waaganui, Egmont, and Stratford. The committea considered autumn shows were unsuitable for Taranaki. It was resolved to acknowledge receipt of the letter, and to state that the matter would receive consideration at the annual meeting. In reference to to-morrow's licensing poll, we have been advised by Mr E. W. F. Gohns, Inspector of Factories, that the Act provides in regard to the closing of shops, that “where the polling day at any election is other than the day appointed as the weekly half-holiday under the Shops and Offices Act, 190S, the provisions of that Act relating to the weekly half-holiday shall be deemed to refer to the polling-day in lieu of the day so appointed, and it shall not be necessary for any employer to observe the day so appointed in the week in which the polling-day falls. It shall not be necessary for any factory to close during any working hours ou the polling-day, but the occupier of the factory shall afford to each of bis employees a reasonable opportunity of recording his vote, and no deduction shall be made from the wages of any such employee in respect of the time occupied in so recording bis vote, providing that such time does not exceed one working hour. Any occupier of a factory who commits a breach of the last preceding sub-sec-tion is liable to a fine not .exceeding £5 in roepect of every employee.”