LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 25 March 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Wairarapa Power Board’s street lighting contract with the Masterton Borough Council commences on April 1. As the installation was completed a fortnight before time the Power Board switched on the current giving two week’s lighting to the public free of charge. At Dunedin yesterday James Cunningham was sentenced to 7 days’ imprisonment for being drunk while in charge of a motor car. On Saturday Cunningham had two passengers in his car and ran into the back part of a tram, which was damaged to the extent of about £lOO.

Among some of the exhibits of New Zealand interest at the Empire Exhibition will be several tuataras. It had originally been intended that half-a-dozen of these lizards shouhl be sent to Wembley, but one of the consignment, either afraid of the pending sea voyage, or else loathe to leave its native soil, eluded its captors several months ago. On Saturday morning it was found on the steps of the Parliamentary Library. The penalty for the escapade is permanent incarceration in the Dominion Museum, —

Tlie Lord Mayor of Belfast has writ- ’ ten to Mr Massey:—‘‘l have much pleasure in informing you that I attended a meeting of the Improvement Committee of the Belfast Corporation, and suggested that a new approach read to the Ulster Parliament Buildings at Stormont be named ‘Massey avenue,’ as a compliment to the Right Hon. W. F. Massey, a distinguished Ulsterman and Prime Minister of New Zealand for the past twelve years. The suggestion was most heartily approved* and the resolution was passed naming the avenue accordingly. ’ ’ The demolition of the Heligoland hag been completed. That impregnable fortress that stood throughout the war as sentinel over the approaches of the Elbe and the Weser and served Germany as a naval base no longer exists in a military sense. Its cannon, its shells and its cupolas are scrap iron. Its harbours, built with titanic labour, but now choked by the masonry of their own breakwaters, will no longer shelter the armada. What the hand of man left undone the North Sea storms will not be slow to accomplish. The lesson of the history of Heligoland forbids any sea power again to deem it, a negligible place. The senior boys in the agricultural class at the Wairarapa High School yesterdy visited the freezing works and the Municipal abattoir at Waingawa. At the latter place the manager gave a demonstration of meat inspection, and at the freezing works no effort was spared on the part of the manager, and the managers of the various department in showing the boys I the different processes connected with | the industry. Tho boys already this I year have acted a s stewards at the : show-, nd have visited the ram fairIt is by outings such a s these that the school authorities hope to give them some idea of the practical side of agriculture.

FLICKERLESS LIGHT THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT.

Used as a ‘‘night light” in the nursery or sick room, Golden Rav Candles give wonderful service. There is an absence of that spluttering and sizzling that goes with inferior makes. Throughout the night they burn steadily and quietly—the patient or the child is never disturbed. It is indeed wise to keep a packet of ‘‘Golden Rays” handy. Get a packet from the grocer TO-DAY. If you have any difficulty in getting your supply," write direct to the manufacturers, EUis and Manton, Ltd., G.P.0., Box 222. Wellington.

A furniture factory and an office connected with a wood and coal business at Devonport, Auckland, were destroyed by fire on Sunday night.

Almost t’-e whole of ths hill on the Fketahuna side of Mt. Bruce has now been widened. When the broken stone has consolidated there will be an excellent road.

At Wellington yesterday ifthiert Rex Harrison, for attempted arson at Woodville, was sentenced to 9 months’ hard labour. Harrison was manager of a garage at Woodville, wrich he attempted to destroy by fire.

‘‘We are amazed at some of the poles coming to New Zealand,” said Mr Toogood in a report to the Wan-ganui-Rangitikei Power Board. He was emphatic that all sap should be removed before dressed poles were accepted.

At the Muriwai motor races, a Ford car driven by 8. Andrews, established an Australian five-mile speed record on a straight track, covering the dis tance in 3min 29sec, which works out at 86.1 miles per hour. Attempts by Austin and Mereer cars failed to lower the record.

During a heavy thunderstorm at Gisborne ou Saturday cveping a team of 8 horses, near Tiniroto, took fright and plunged over a 20ft bank at the bridge approach. The body of Thomas Nicholls, the driver, wa s discovered next afternoon in a hole in the papa bed of the creek.

A fire at Northcote, Auckland, destroyed a store and a four-roomed residence, Mr and Mr s Heaton and three children escaped with a small quantity of clothing. There were previous outbreaks in the same premises on January 12 and 13. The circumstances lead to the conclusion that the fire was due to burglars. At the inquest at Gisborne on Peter Jex Blake, the coroner found that death had resulted from a fracture of the skull caused by a motor car going over a bank, but there was no evidence to show how the car came to leave the road. A witness thought deceased must have dozed at the wheel, as he had done, having been up 24 hours without sleep or rest.

A motor accident at Archill Auckland which resulted in the death of Seymour Elmsley Gordon, occurred at 1 a.m. on Sunday. Gordon, a mechanic employed by the Seabrook Fowlds Company, was driving round a corner when the car capsized, pinning the occupants underneath. Miss Fountain, aged 20, is suffering from general injuries and Neville Hopkins sustained abrasions.

Henry Richard Savage, labour, aged 24 years, married, shot himself' in the chest at Sefton, near Christchurch, on Saturday evening. Savage was before the Court on February 25 ( when a separation order was granted his wife, on the grounds of persistent cruelty and failure to maintain. He continued to molest his wife and she took proceedings. He was to have appeared at Court yesterday.

A very pleasant and successful dance was held in the Hastwell’s Hall on Friday night. Visitors attended from- Eketahuna, Masterton and surrounding districts. About 40 couples indulged in dancing. Music was supplied by the Pioneer Orchestra from Masterton. Extras were played by Messrs L. Neighbours, F. Brown and H. Hood and Mis s A. Neilsen. Mr R. Munihera was M.C., and a capable ladies ’ committee provided supper.

“The sergeant of police at Masterton, representatives of the legal profession ?nnd motor experts were last evening busily engaged on the main road between Mauriceville and Man gamahoe, at a sharp corner” says the ‘ ‘ Express. ’ ’ In addition two cars were placed head on the road just at the bend. There had been no collision between these ears, so the inference is that there had been a previous collision and that more is to be heard of the matter.”

Referring at the meeting of the Otago Rugby Union to the great amount of travelling. Mr Fairbairn said that sooner or later the employers would take up a hostile attitude if indiscriminate travelling was continued. The province soon would be represented only by people in casual work, thus opening the door to professional ism. He thought it should be a recom mendation to committee to curtail the number of representative matchak to the extent of sending the Otago team away only every four years. The matter i s to have the committee's atten tion.

Child’s pony wanted. Position wanted as housekeeper. Produce and jumble stall St. Matthew’s Parish Hall to-morrow. New novels just to hand at N. It Brown’s:—“The Spell of Siris” (Muriel Hine), “Jewelled Nights” (Maic B. Petersen), “The Long Path” (Mills Young), “Within These Walls” (Rupert Hughes), “Rookery Nook” (Ben Travers).