LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1925, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Monday will be the 77th anniversary of Otago and Southland. The Featherston Borough general account will be in credit to the extent of £69 at the end of the financial year. The Wesley Church choir will give a programme of sacred music at the Public Hospital on Sunday afternoon. The Dannevirke County ratepayers sanctioned the raising of a poll of £45,000 for modern road construction, by 453 to 183 votes

A “working bee” has levelled ano cleared portion of the Memorial Park at Greytown where it is intended to lay down three tennis courts.

According to the Principal of the Wairarapa High School (Dr. G. H. Uttley), a satisfactory response has been received from pupils in regard to the correspondence courses.

A fire broke out in the scenic reserve on the Western Lake on Thursday and did a fair amount of damage to that valuable bush. Mr A. Matthews got a number of men together who checked the spread of fire. A distressing accident occurred at Maitai Valley College (Nelson). A boy, Kenneth Walkley, while holidaying, was helping with a circular saw when he came in contact with it, receiving serious injuries to the head. His condition is serious.

The State miners at Westport are asking for a wage increase, and improvement of conditions. The Department indicated that it was not going much beyond the existing agreement as it feared a possible loss on the year’s working. Work will possibly resume on Monday. The Commissioner uf Taxes draws the attention of taxpayers to the notification appearing in to-day’s issue that returns of land must be furnished not later than April 8. Forms of return may be obtained at any postal money-order office; they will not be sent to taxpayers from the offices of the Commissioner of Taxes unless written application is made for them.

A Te Awamutu P.A. message says that the Dominion Executive of the Dairy Farmers’ Union, representing the Wairarapa, Manawatu, and Waikato districts, unanimously adopted the following resolution: * 1 This executive congratulates the overseas delegates of the Dairy Control Board on the work done and ihe valuable report presented and supports the policy defined by the Board.”

The Lansdowne Church L&diea’ Guild are holding a shop day on Wednesday in the Central Arcade, which has been kindly lent by Mr L. B. Maunsell. Ladies from all parts of the parish are co-operating most heartily to bring the function to a successful issue. Stalls will be conducted on behalf of Bideford-Wangae-hu, Kopuaranga-Maur ice ville, and Opaki-Bangitumau. Gifts of produce for the sale will be received from 9 a.m. at the Arcade and arrangements will be made for collecting on ringing 1814. A very fine programme, including some of the best local talent, has been prepared for the grand concert in the evening in St. Matthew’s Parish Hall.

The enforced holiday period has been responsible for keen interest in kite-flying in Mastorton of late, but it has not yet extended to the adults as it has in Palmerston. North where a number of local business men have lateley been observed struggling in the back paddocks with these aerial playthings. That there is an art in flying a kite has been discovered by many, (says the “Manawatu Times,”) who find that a fraction out in the placing of the string will change a steady, graceful, and birdlike flier into a rushing, nese-diving and uncontrollable thing which reigns in the air not more than a few seconds before coming entangled in the electric wires, or making an ungraceful descent into a neighbour’s back yard. The spiritualists of New Zealand, after a long and strenuous fight, have obtained legal recognition as a religious body, and have now the same status as any other church in the Dominion. The Spiritualist Church of New Zealand Bdl, passed last session vests in the Executive Committee the power: (a) To prescribe the qualifications necessary for pastors, teachers or mediums who may be licensed to preach or teach in any Spiritualist Church, (b) To examine candidates applying for license*, (c) To issue licenses to any pat tor, teacher or

medium for an\ specified term, and to suspend, vary or cancel any such license. (d) To forbid the practice or teaching in any church, of superstitious observance, and anything that might in its opinion in jute the cause of Spiritualism.