The display is of special interest as a demonstration of the quality of goods obtainable from New Zealand woollen mills and clothing factories. The garments consist of socks, undershirts, underpants, working shirts, puttees, cholera belts, blankets, and service uniforms, including trousers, tunics, pantaloons, hats, boots, and greatcoats.
The names of the various mills supplying the articles are also displayed, and that the dominion is able to equip its soldiers with a complete outfit of clothing from its own resources is a fact that should impress itself upon the public mind.
A certain number of articles, such as denims, thread, buttons, etc., are not yet produced in New Zealand, but, apart from these few details, men leaving the dominion this year will stand clothed in New Zealand-made equipment throughout.
Boys to be birched
Mr H. A. Young, S.M., presided in the Juvenile Court yesterday, when a boy, who had stolen a bicycle valued at 7, the property of Theodore Oswald Pedman, at Mornington, was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence when called upon, the condition being that he remain under the supervision of Mr Axelsen.
Three boys pleaded ''Guilty'' to a charge of stealing a bank note, the property of the Otago Early Settlers' Association, and two others to stealing five bank notes, the property of this association. Two of the boys were also charged with receiving four bank notes, knowing these to have been dishonestly obtained.
They pleaded ''Guilty''. Chief Detective Bishop suggested that this amount should be made good by the parents, and that the boys should each receive a birching and be placed under the supervision of Mr Sureties.
Mr Cumming said that one of the boys had previously been personally placed under the supervision of Mr Axelsen, who was now prepared to take over the control of him if the court saw fit to so direct. Each of the boys was convicted and ordered to receive six strokes of the birch.
Price discrepancy
''Notice that the public seem to be paying about twice as much for our New Zealand produce as the producer himself receives,'' stated Mr C. J. Talbot (M.P. for Temuka) in the House of Representatives.
''For instance, we are receiving 10s a bag for potatoes, but I find that my landlady here is paying from 19s to 20s a bag. We get 5s 8d a bushel for fowl wheat, but the people pay 8s, 9s, and 10s a bushel for it; and the wheat-grower is only receiving half for his wheat that the consumer pays for it in the shape of bread.''
Codlin moth fine
At the Brightwater Court on Friday a fruitgrower from Pigeon Valley was fined 10 and costs for neglecting to keep his apple crop clean of codlin moth.
Stalkers returning
The Cromwell Argus states that several parties of deer-stalkers have returned from the Hawea forest, but the heads are hardly up to expectations. The best brought out so far is a splendid 14-pointer, secured by Mr C. Harvey
- ODT, 18.4.1918.
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