LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1924, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A partial derailment of a carriage at Cross Creek caused about an hour’s delay ■in the arrival at Masterton of the first train from Wellington yesterday morning About 100 applications have been received by the Hawke’s Bay Education Boartl for appointment as pupil teachers aid j robationess next year. The vacancies number 31. Messrs L. B. Maunsell, A. H. Daniell, O‘. N t C. Pragnell, R.Russell, T. Dixon and J Caselberg kindly placed their cars at the disposal of the Samoan visitors who were in Masterton yesterday. X The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has received a cable from its representative in Australia advising that 247,580 carcases of lamb were exported from Australia for the fortnight ended last Friday. A young man who had been shearing and labouring in the Wairarapa for some time past was arrested by the Masterton police yesterday in connection with the alleged theft of a saddle and bridle at Foxton.

Mrs Bland Rayner has presented to the Masterton A. and P. Association, a cup to be known as the “ Bland Rayner Memorial, ’ ’ for the best shearling Lincoln ram in the show. A miniature of the cup will be presented to each year’s winner Questioned as to what would be done with a sheepskin, mat presented to the party by Mr C. Lang, of i( 1 Tyneside,” one of the Samoan Faipulo informed “The Age” that it would be given a prominent piace in the New Zealand section of the museum recently established in Samoa.

“Too much dancing and the wrong class of moving pictures are having an undesirable effect on scholars,” said Mr A. K. Anderson, Principal of St. Andrew’s College, Christchurch, at the break-up ceremony. He advocated dancing for young people oiuy two or three times a year as they used to. Another necessity, he said, was the limitation of pocket money.

general meeting of shareholders of the No. 1 Workers’ Mutual Benefit Building Society was held in the secretary’s office, last evening for the allocation of £3OO by ballot, and £3OO by sale. Mr R. Krahagen (chairman of directors) presided over a fair attendance of shareholders. z Mr J. P. Prentice obtained an appropriation of £l5O and Mr H. W. Rishworth an appropriation of £3OO. As no tenders were received for the £3OO offered by sale it was decided tohold another ballot of £3OO, which resulted in Mr C. V. Yates drawing an appropriation of £3OO.

Owing, to delay caused through slow travelling on slippery roads, the party which visited “Tyneside” yesterday with the Samoan Faipule had a very limited time in which to catch the train for Wellington. It fell to the lot of a well-known Masterton business man, noted for his dexterity at *he wheel to drive seven of the visitors hurriedly to the Carterton railway station. Reasonable precautions weie taken on the hills, but on the flat stretches no time was lost, and though the ear in which “The Age” reporter travelled touched at times, 40 miles per hour, nothing of the Faipulecar could be seen. Nothing was said on arrival, but as the train drew out o«e of the visitors exclaimed “Thank you very much for the trip; we shall never forget the driver.”