LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 5 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Motorists report the road over the Rimutaka Hill to be standing up to the strain of heavy traffic very well.

A course of Lenten sermons on the "World Call” will be delivered by the Rev. W. Bullock at St. Matthew’s, commencing to-morrow. The series will comprise discourses on China, Japan, India, Africa and the Moslem world.

At a meeting on Thursday evening of the Featherston Swimming Club, it was decided to proceed with the definite constitution of the club and to apply for a black costume with a blue monogram. as the club colours. By arrangement with the captain of the Old Boys’ team, the Featherston erieket team will play the second day of its match against Old Boys at Masterton to-day instead of at Featherston, where the game was commenced last Saturday. A Christchurch P.A. message states that Noble Frank Lawades, late branch manager of the Australian Provincial Assurance Co., Ltd., has issued a writ against the association claiming £2OOO damages for alleged wrongful dismissal. Mrs. McNab, aged 80, of Sayes Lane, Wellington, died in the Public Hospital at 6.25 p.m. yesterday as the result of injuries sustained by being Knocked over by a motor lorry driven by C. W. Lawton in Tory Street, at 3 p.m.—(P.A.) A special feature of the harvest festival services at the Greytown Methodist Church to-morrow will be along lines suggested recently by President Coolidge to tho American people. With thanksgiving for ingathered harvests will be coupled recognition of God’s providence in the affairs of home and State, and intercession for guidance in the difficult days in which we live.

A widow appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch yesterday charged with shoplifting, having stolen goods valued at £1 17s. from the Farmers ’ Co-operative Stores. The Magistrate suppressed tho name of the woman, who had no previous convic* tions ,and imposed a fine of £2, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. The Magistrate warned the woman that if she came before him again for a similar offence she would be sent to gaol.—(P.A.)

A valuable car belonging to Mr. F. Knutson, of Carterton, was removed on Thursday night from the garage in which it is usually left. It was evidently a very well conceived plan, as the hinges of the garage had been oiled before the machine was taken out. It was then evidently pushed for a distance so as not to disturb tho neighbourhood. A thorough search of the town was made yesterday morning, but no trace of the missing car was found.

In the early hours of Thursday morning, a motor lorry went over the bank near the late Dr. Wallace’s house, near Featherston. The lorry was held at the rear_by a cabbage tree, with a stout manuka bush supporting the eab. Some of the load, sugar particularly, suffered through the bags being torn, while some including a large box of tea, vanished altogether, while the driver and his assistant went for help. The load was transferred to another lorry, and the vehicle being reinstated to tho road, was able to proceed under its own power.

A deputation from South Wairarapa, consisting of Messrs. W. A. Tate and W. Benton, recently waited on the Council of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society asking the Council’s aid in tho elucidation of the definition of shooters’ and anglers’ rights. The time was Corfu ng, it was said, when' New Zealand would be in the position of the Old Country, where nobody was allowed access to lakes, rivers, or properties by the owners of the adjoining land. Unless access could be obtained to the lake, shooting license revenue would be lost, and in the matter of rivers many owners denied that anglers had any rights at all. There were three reserves bordering on the Wairarapa Lake, Simmond’s reserve, which it was sought to have declared a shooting and fishing reserve; the Whareoto reserve, to which access was not obtainable at present except by crossing private property, permission to do which was being denied; and another reserve at the mouth of the Ruamahunga at the southern end of the lake, to which access was difficult owing to the owners. "More fish, more birds, and more rangers” were also asked for. It was stated that ducks were plentiful, and that a three months’ season could with advantage be allowed. Tho deputation was promised that the matter would receive attention.