CARS COLLIDE

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 101, 23 January 1933, Page 4

CARS COLLIDE

On Greytown Street

ITEMS FROM WAIRARAPA

Dominion Special Service.

Masterton, Jan. 22.

A car containing live passengers overturned in the main street of Greytown this week when it collided broadside on with a car which emerged from a right-of-way. The passengers, Mrs. J. 11. Kidd (Greytown), Mrs. Kidd, sen., Mrs. Jennings (Hawera) and two children, were bruised and cut by flying glass. Mrs. Jennings received a bad cut on tbe forehead. Both cars were more Or less damaged.

Increase in Butter Prices. The retail price of butter in Mqstertoti was raised to 1/- per lb ou Saturday.

Shortage of Rape Lambs. There is stated to be an acute shortage of rape lambs in the Wairarapa at present.

Flight to Napier. fl'he Wairarapa and Ruahitie Aero Club's pilot instructor, Flying-Officer J, H, Buckeridge. flew up to Napier on Saturday to take part in the air pageant being held at the Hawke’s Bay centre iu connection with its big carnival, and to take part in the welcome to Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.

A Novel Excuse. The rather novel excuse that he could not afford to buy a newspaper and was therefore unaware of the restrictions relating to the use of garden hoses was put forward by a Masterton resident who appeared in the Magistrate’s Court charged with a breach of the borough council's hosing restrictions. The magistrate nevertheless fined him £l. Social Items.

Mrs. G. Russell, who has been spending a holiday at Auckland, has returned to Pahiatua.

Mrs. P, Thomson, of Wellington, is the guest of Mrs. A. Nelson, Pahiatua. Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Lambie, Eketnhuna, are visiting the South Island.