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Wairarapa Age, 15 June 1927, Page 4

According to the report of an official inquiry made public yesterday by the Prime Minister, the derailment of the Christchurch-Invercargill express near Timaru was due to stones having been placed on the line. W. Elvy, the wing three-quarter of All Black fame, who recently was playing in the Bush district, has now settled in Wellington and has decided to play for the Petone Club. He will appear for the first time on Saturday in a match against Poneke. Mr R. B. Hammond (Director of Town Planning) has requested Mr A. W. Reynolds to supply him with a photograph of South Park, as an example of the development of a small park, and views of Masterton Park and College Street. Mr Hammond intends to have slides prepared from the photographs for use in lecturing. At a meeting yesterday of the North Wairarapa Public Schools’ Rugby Union reference was made .to a rumour that a member of the Te Ore Ore School team attended school on Fridays only. Inquiries showed that the player mentioned attended school regularly and was a bona fide schoolboy. In fairness to the school concerned it was decided to make public the true Saets of the case.

The Co-operative Dairy Company, which has been very successful this week with its exhibits of butter at the National Dairy Show at Palmerston North, is at present making an attractive display of butter in one of the windows of the W.F.C.A. Ltd. A central feature is a model of a three-decker wedding cake, worked out in butter. In addition to the fine display of butter, some of the beautiful silver cups won by the company in competitions at different shows are also on exhibition.

The possibility of an increase rather than a decrease in taxation in New Zealand was mentioned in a letter from the Minister of Finance (the HcTn. W. Downie Stewart), received at a meeting of the Council of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce yesterday. The Minister wrote acknowledging receipt of the Chamber’s protest against the Government’s failure to reduce taxation in view of the Budget surplus. Tho Minister stated that he had tried to make it clear, in his speech at Feeding, how the surplus had come about and that it could not possibly be a basis on which to justify reduced taxation more especially in view of the outlook which might quite possibly call for increased taxation if the finances of the country were to be kept on a proper basis. However, on the question of any increase in taxation, this should not be regarded as a considered opinion.—(P.A.).

Gold brooch lost. Child’s boot found. Huntaway dog for sale. Two unfurnished rooms to let. Competent driver wants position. Indian Scout motor cycle for sale. Haake piano in good order for sale. Position as working housekeeper wanted.

Druids’ dance, Municipal Hall, Saturday night. Mr J. Betty, land agent, advertises 4 acres with 6-roomed house for sale. South African veterans are asked to attend a meeting on Saturday evening at the Soldiers’ Club.

Mr. W. S. Heaps, land agent, advertises ideal residential sections for sale on the new road off The Terrace, Lansdowne. The Wairarapa Farmers’ direct attention to the genuine sale bargains in their china and fancy goods, boot and shoe and furniture departments. The Masterton Auctioneering Co. advertise a sale of superior oak and rimu furniture and effects at 90 Lincoln Road, commencing at 2 p.m. to-day. All the articles are in first-class order and in some instances have had less than twelve months’ use.

A stupendously realistic picture dealing with the days of 1876 in the wild West and the Custer Massacre —“The Flaming Frontier, ” a veritable epic of American history, into which an anpealing love romance is woven, will be the banner attraction at the Opera House, commencing this evening at 7.45. Hoot Gibson plays the hero scout who after being expelled from West Point for shielding the brother of the girl he loves from scandal ,rejoins Custer’s command, and rides furiously through the lines on the fated day of the massacre in an attempt to bring aid to his comrades. A wonderful film, as artistic as it is thrilling. Box plan at Henderson’s or Theatre 1048 after 7 o’clock.