GENERAL ITEMS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 239, 6 July 1931, Page 5

GENERAL ITEMS

About the Province Dominion Special Service. There were 16 frosts at Masterton last month, two of 12 degrees each on the Bth and 9th being the most severe. Rain fell on 18 days, the total rainfall being 4.31 inches. The maximum temperature was 61.8 and the minimum 25 degrees, an extreme range of 36.8. Members of the Masterton branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute were addressed on Saturday morning by Mr. R. Hipkins, A.R.C.A., art lecturer at the Wellington Training College, on the making ot Hno cuts and printing from the completed blocks. ’This form of art, said Mr. Hipkins, was suitable for primary as well as secondary schools. The making of Uno cuts was a creative work, and afforded unlimited opportunities for expression in technique. An old man, who could not be handled at the Buchanan Old Men's Home, appeared before Messrs. Day and Rees, J.P.’s, in the Greytown Police Court on Friday on a charge of vagrancy. He was convicted and ordered to come up for sentence if called upon within twelve months, provided that he left the district. Although the Wairarapa Farmers’ Union has passed a resolution In favour of lifting the embargo on imported live stock, the Martinborough branch of the union last week expressed itself as being distinctly opposed to the lifting of the embargo, and decided, to forward a resolution to this effect to the Dominion Conference of the Union. Work - under the No. 5 unemployment scheme being carried out in the Alfredton district includes improvements to the school grounds and widening and Improvements .to the Pa Valley Hill. Both vehicles were considerably damaged, but the drivers escaped uninjured, when two cars collided at a sharp corner on the Alfredton-Tinui Road. The cars were, driven by Mr. A. Leach and Mr. W. Leach. The Wairarapa Boxing Association has decided to hold an amateur tournament similar to that held In the Dixon Street Hall. Masterton. recently, at the same place on July 25. The committee has received several applications for professional contests but is taking no action at present.