LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Hutt News, Volume XII, Issue 22, 17 November 1948, Page 7

LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS

Thanks to Hutt News

The secretary of the .Woburn Rugby Football Club writes as follows to the Editor of tlie Hutt News: —“The management committee of the Woburn Rugby Football Club lias asked me to express, to you their appreciation of the space you made available each week during the past Rugby season for the club’s Rugby notes. Many members of our club have commented favourably on the sporting page which you have featured each week during the past year.”

Timani Claims to be City The population of Timaru having reached 20,000, city status has been granted it. ~ ~ ~r_. ■

The Dead Centre Teacher: “What is the dead centre of Lower Hutt?” Pupil: “I think it is the Taita Cemetery.”—Taken from the monthly news-letter of the Taita Central School.

Missing Girl Found The 18-year-old girl Joan Lawrie, who had been missing from her home in Lower Hutt sihCe October 27, has been located, in Auckland.

Ssth Annivarsary The 85th anniversary of the first publication of the Auckland Herald, which is looked upon as the finest, newspaper in New Zealand, was celebrated last week. ,

Drainage Board Representatives The Mayor of Petone, Mr. A. M. Macfarlane, and the deputy-Mayor, Mr. J. Huggan, have been appointed to represent the Petone Borough Council on the newly-constituted Hutt Valley Drainage Biard.

Talk on Maori Music A talk on Maori music vfas given by Mrs. Bernard Webb, of Lower Hutt, at a Christmas and break-up party held by the Women’s Social Progress Movement in Wellington or. Monday.

Council Meetings Cut Out Two meetings of the Lower Hutt City Council will be cut out? as a result of the holiday season. Usually the Council holds two meetings a month, but after the meeting on Monday, December 13, there will be no further meeting until Tuesday, January 25.

Lower Hutt Plunket Society ! In the report of the Election of officers at the annual, meeting of the Lower Hutt Plunket Society, appearing on page 9, the name of Mrs. A. A. Davies should have appeared as vice-presidenC and Mrs. T. Orr as a member, of the committee.

Envious of Lower Hutt

At the annual meeting of the Wellington Swimming Club Mr. D. S. McCarten said that Wellington looked with envious eyes on-the ■■ Lower Hutt City Council’s proposal to make the Riddiford Baths tepid. _ ‘He hoped that it would not be long before Wellington had equal facilities. The club had waited for more than 40 years for tepid baths, -and-swimmiug in the capital city was undoubtedly handicapped without them.

Music Society Song Group Members of the Hutt Valley Music Society who attend the; meeting of the Song Group next week are' assured of .-n interesting programme of miscellaneous songs presented by members who, if they so desire, may hear their songs recorded by a sound recording tape which will be demonstrated by Mr; Thomas Wood, of Wellington. This meeting marks the close of the Group’sjunctions for the year, and all active members of the Society will be cordially welcomed. ....

“Baby Sitting” at Taita The executive of the Taita Play Centre Association is anxious to inaugurate its “baby-sitting” scheme as soon as possible, and', it would like parents who are willing to permit their secondary school sons and daughters to undertake this work on an occasional eyening to communicate with the Association. The aim of the scheme is to secure the services of suitable “babysitters” so that parents can go out together occasionally .for .an evening’s entertainment.

Liquor Taken on Bus In the Magistrate’s Court at Lower Hutt three youths, Leo Gilbert Carroll, George Frederick Wright and Kenneth Joseph Ryan, pleaded guilty to taking liquor in a public bus, and were fined £3 each. Senior-Sergeant T. Campagnolo, who appeared for the police, said the youths'.were going from Wellington in a Road Services bus on October 29. They were drinking and making a nuisance of themselves. Ryan tried to throw a mug out of the- door but it struck a passenger.

School Amenities 'A. Two line first-aid cabinets have been presented to the-Taita Central School by the chairman of the school committee, Mr. J. M. McCle—lan. A splendid collection of books has arrived at the school from the National Library Service. The books are available to children in Standards I to VI, and are mainly in story form but include - some books of infomatioil.Through the generosity of the executive of the former Taita Community Centre committee, a considerable number of special books for " children has been added to the school library.

Golf Championships The programme for the next New Zealand golf will 'be the same as for last year.

Record Entries for Show The entries lor the Canterbury Agricultural and Pastoral Show last week totalled 3706, a record. The previous highest was 3418, : . i Drop in R.S.A. Membership

The membership of the Wellington Returned Services Association Is now 10,767, compared with 13,477 last year. ; •

Money from Rose-liips . "We have been gathering rosehips with which to make-rose-hip syrup. We get threepence a pound,” said a Scottish school girl in writing to a pupil of the Waterloo School expressing thanks for food, parcels.

Ministers’ Stipends Raised The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church decided that from July 1 next the minimum standard stipend for ministers will be ipcreased to £4 00 a year. The salaries of heme missionaries will be raised by £25 a year from the same dafp.

Honorary Members Wanted

In an endeavour to increase the number of honorary members, tlje Hutt Valley Cricket Association "is

planning to provide free admission to the grounds for all representative matches and special seating accommodation for all members.

Club for Elderly People * The estimated cost of the Wellington City Mission’s proposed residential Darby and Joan Club for elderly people is £30,000, of which the Government is prepared to-grant onethird and if the mission finds’another third, to lend the remainder. This was stated by the acting* Prime Minister, Mr. Nash, when opening trbe mission’s silver jubilee fair.

Special Royal Visit Stamps ; Four designs for the Royal visit stamps have been -approved ~lsy~~fhe King and. are being ..^printed—in Britain. Arrangements have been made to have the stariips on sale at all post offices on Monday, February 28, when the Royal party arrives,at Wellington in H.M.S. Vanguard. The denominations will be 2d green, with brick red centre, 3d blue,, ad violet and 6d blue with purple, centre. .

Evening on Greece At the Woburn Hostels tonight an interesting eveningjph' Greece- will' be held by the Hutt galley Y.W.C.A. The speakers will include Mr. D, G. McNab, who -won the M.C. and D.C.M. during the war, and who lived as a Greek for a time, and Miss A. Louise Burton; national general secretary 1 or the Y.W.C.A. of New Zealand. All interested are invited to attend. :

Vandals at Moera School. * v Vandals entered the’ Randwick School, Moera, on .-Saturday 'night, and left behind a trail of destruction. Doors and windows - were smashed, food for Britain cases destroyed, and money stolen. One wonders at the mentality-of-offen-ders of this type. People are becoming very concerned at "the widespread spread of vandalism. :

Catholic Church Fair

A fair held in the grounds- of the Convent, Lower Hutt, on Saturday proved very successful. The proceeds will go towards building; a school at Waiwhetu. TheJ'qjr y/as officially opened, by Mr.' W. *‘Ng‘sh, M.P. for Hutt, who . was_inir.Qduced by Father B. M. Keegan. At night the Waiwhetu Catholic Young People’s Club held an enjoyable dance on the lawn.

Award Presented " • ; An investiture preceded last wedk’s meeting of the Wellington City Council. The award was the Royal Humane Society's Certificate of Merit, which the Mayor;"'Mr. ;W. Appleton, presented to Private Murray Sellen, of the Army School of Instruction at Trentham, for. gallantry during a scrub fire, .at Maidstofie Park. “I am glad that this award should.be made public,” said Mr. Appleton.T" “it proves that acts of gallantry are not’ confined to war.” -

Success at Rose Show At the East' Harbour Horticultural Society’s Rose ~’43how the champion rose “Una Wallace” ;was shown by Mr. W.-H. Wilson rwlio won two firsts, three seconds, land two I-1. C.. Mr. G. W. Cairns, of Lower Hutt, bad four firsts, three seconds, one H.C.. Mr. Wilson ‘won the cup awarded by the Hutt Valley and East Harbour, branch of the National Rose Society -and • Mr. Cairns the Mrs. Knox Gilmer Rose Bowl for most points In the rose gardens. »

Dangerous Subwpy

At. its last meeting • the Lower Hutt City Council was_ad.vise r L by the district civil engineer of • the New Zealand Railways- that in r. bis opinion a distinct hazard existed for the users of the Waterloo* subway. He suggested some safeguard by 1 , way of pedestrian crossings. The Council decided to install pedestrian crossings in Oxford and Cambridge Terraces adjacent to the subway ; entrances. The Council also decided to suggest to the Railways Department that the Department should devise some means of obviating the -

danger caused by the riding of bicycles on the subway ramps.