LOCAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, 15 March 1949, Page 4

LOCAL NEWS

Endeavouring to avoid a girl eye list who was emerging from Franklin Street, Mr George C. Cuff, of Blaketown, the driver of a car had a fortunate escape from injury. The car struck the lawnside kerb, at ths side of the road, way and capsized on the lawn. Although petrol and oil flowed from the vehicle, it did not ignite, and the occupants of the car escaped injury. The car was not badly damaged. When his foot caught in the tailboard of a lorry as he was dismounting on Saturday, Stanley P. Dalton, of Winnie Street, sustained a fractured left leg. He is progressing satisfactorily at the Grey River Hospital. An “electric housemaid" which can peel potatoes, scour pots and pans, clean shoes, polish buttons, mince meat, grind coffee, whisk eggs, and stir puddings will be among the inventions shown at the British Industries Fair in May. The inventors took live years to perfect the gadget. They are now experimenting to make it wash clothes and dishes. Final results of the polls on licensing and off-course betting will not be given before next week, though it is expected that the official count will be completed by the end of this week. Returns of absentee and postal votes are still being received at the Chief Electoral Office and these indicate that there will probably be an average of at least 500 such votes to an electorate. One electorate reached nearly 1000. Postal and absentee votes were fewer than expected. The time taken for mail to reach the Electoral Office from isolated areas is another reason for the unavoidable delay in the completion of the final results. Pay your Brunner Rates early and avoid the penalty.—AdvL On a recent afternoon a canvas bag, containing £4B 6s 3d —the wages of the Regent Theatre staff—was stolen from that theatre’s office at Masterton. Eleven women recently were admitteed to Wairoa Hospital with food poisoning. No explanation of their illness has yet been obtained but it. is considered to have been from a food organism that, possibly was brought in by outside persons or flies. Another version speaks of duck eggs having been used in the making of meringues. All the cases were from one institution in the town. Under ideal conditions members ol Harley’s Social Club, at the week-end, held a successful picnic at Lake Kaniere. The party en route to the lake visited the Arahura dredge which capsized recently. Competitions and races were held, the results being: Nail driving (women), Mrs R. Woodhouse, (men) Gordon Paul. Boy’s race: Rodger Young; girl’s: Noeline Young. Married women’s race: Mrs Paul; single women: Gwenith Pring; apprentices: W. Ashton; men’s race: Gordon Paul; mixed relay (children): Noeline and Rodger Young; pick-a-back race: John Holcroft and Brian Sanson. Three-legged race: Mr Young and Nola Shallcrass. Prizes were presented to the winners and the president of the club (Mr M. Vernon) thanked everyone for joining in the fun. Have you • seen Jeff’s new bar ? Empire Hotel. Ross. —Advt. The annual meeting of the Moana Women’s Institute was held in the schoolroom, Mrs Price presiding over a good attendance. The secretary read the report and the president addressed the meeting and thanked all for their help in the past year. The election of officers resulted ■ President, Mrs J. White; vice-president, Mrs W. Greenhill; secretary-treasurer, Mrs E. Hocking. With Mrs White, the new president, in the chair, the monthly meeting was held. An invitation from Kotuku Institute for their next meeting was accepted. The motto, “You can’t push yourself forward bv patting yourself on the back”, was responded to by Mrs H. Winford. The roll call, “Uses of stale bread", was responded to by all, and some very good hints and recipes were received. The best bloom was shown by Mrs Feary. Mrs R. Dense won the wandering shilling. On March 5 the birthday of the Institute was well attended, the cake being cut by the president, and several of the members giving items, supper closing an enjoyable evening. A London report states. —Mohev ibecoming tighter. A restaurant keeper paid business has suddenly dropped. Cruising taxis are now plentiful in the West End, and the drivers report a fall of 10 per cent in receipts. Cars have a basic petro ration now (they had none a year ago), and there are 500 more taxis but tighter purses account for most of the drop. A mine detector will be used by the Pohangina County Council in an attempt ,to locate valuable hydraulic equipment which was washed away in the January- flood in Pohangina county. The council has a man who can operate the detector, and it intends to start the search 'soon. A party of more than 20 young farmers from the Manawatu and Horowhenuua districts will travel to Sydney in June for a tour of New South Wales on similar lines to the tours being undertaken by Australian farmers in New Zealand. In the near future, Bailey bridges are to be placed on the road to Milford Sound from the Homer Tunnel. Two of the larger bridges on the Cleddau Valley road are to be replaced with Baileys, parts of which are now at Monkey Flat awaiting transport to the job. Over the past few months, Public Works men have been working to replace other bridges and culverts on the Milford Road, which had become unsafe for transport. The road has been closed for some time, although mail and supnlies have been going through for the Milford Hostel and the New Zealand-American Fiordland Expedition at Caswell Sound. Recently the parts of a Pereival Proctor plane which last October crashed at Big Bay were taken through the Homer Tunnel. After being salvaged this month, the parts were taken by launch to Milford, and then loaded in sections on a truck, which took it through the tunnel to the Homer camp, where It wag off-loaded again into a car trailer to make the long haul to Queenstown. .Mr F. J. Lucas, to whom the plane belonged, said he was surprised to find the engine and other parts in excellent condition. On Friday last, the flag-draped sunroom of the New Zealand Embassy residence in Washington was the setting for an investiture by the New Zealand Ambassador (Sir Carl Berensdeh) of 20 officers of the United States armed forces with honorary orders of the British Empire. The officers, who served in the South-west Pacific theatre, received awards in “recognition of distinguished services rendered to the people and Government of New Zealand during World War II.” Fourteen ’ other officers similarly rewarded were unable ro attend the ceremony.