LOCAL AND GENERAL

Hawera Star, Volume L, 16 February 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Masterton Radio Listeners’ Club is approaching the Broadcasting Company with regard to having Masterton included in any chain of relay stations which it may be proposed to establish in an effort to a more efficient service throughout New Zealand.

The visiting American athletes, Messrs Harlow P. Rothert, George Simpson and Rufus W. Kiser, were passeugers by the south, express to-day for Wanganui, where they are to appear at a sports meeting on Thursday evening.

Tests of the wireless telephone service between New Zealand and London are still being carried out. Under exceptionally favourable conditions they have been successful, but the problem is to ensure that the best possible conditions exist before this circuit can be thrown open for commercial use. The trans-Tasman service is open for commercial Use, and indeed was of some service to the Press for recent earthquake news, but general use has not been made of it.

Last year there was a world-wide inquiry for scented musk and it was stated that a large reward was offered in England for specimens of the scented variety. A subscriber has drawn the attention of the “Star” to a paragraph appear in the latest issue of tho Australian Women’s Mirror, stating that there is an abundance of the scented variety growing in Gippsland, Victoria.

-Altogether 53,563 people have been interviewed) by the Wellington War Relief Association during the 15 years of its existence, and, excluding more than 25,000 circulars., orders on tradesmen, etc., 54,001 letters have been written on behalf of soldiers and their dependents. The total funds collected to the end of December last amount to £186,515 Os lQd. The expenditure last year amounted to £7178 2s 3d, and the total outgoings for the 15 years now amount to £187,712 17s lOd. On Thursday 103 cases from the Hawke’s Bay district were undergoing treatment at the Wellington Hospital. It was visiting day at the hospital, and the long corridors resounded with the tramp of an armv of visitors, many of them laden with bags and parcels, and all hurrying along to the wards where their friends or relatives were lying. With over 700 beds, Wellington’s public hospital is now one of the largest in New Zealand, the new special wards in the new administration block having added enormously to the accommodation.

For the first time since its inception •17 years ago unfavourable weather prevented play in the elderly bowlers’ day on tho Dunedin green on Saturday afternoon. The function was, however, well attended, and the visitors were entertained to afternoon tea. The oldest bowler present was Mr Donald Manson, aged 92, of Anderson’s Bay. The visitors were welcomed by Mr A. J. Sullivan (president of the club), Mr C. H. Hayward (vice-president), and Mr H. F. Mercer, the founder of elderly bowlers’ day. It was mentioned that this event had become so popular that other centres in New Zealand and Australia were following Dunedin’s example.