LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 19 March 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton Esperanto group will hold its first annual social in the Y.M.C.A. Social Hall on Monday, March 25, at 8 pm. Mr G. R. Sykes M.P. will preside. The body ot' Alfred Charles Wright, a hotelkeeper of Potone, who disappeared from th 1 © Harmer Hospital on February 12, was found on Saturday in the plantation at. Hunmer by the Forestry Department manager. He had evidently of exhaustion.—(P.A.) John Charles Paget, a blacksmith, was yest-rday at Invercargill fined £25, and had his license suspended for a year for being in. a state of intoxication white in charge of a ear. The evidence showed that while returning from, the races he narrowly missed colliding with, two other cars. —(P.A.) Blinded a» the result of an explosion 1 in the Wailii Mine about five years ago, 1 Alfred Brown, a married man, aged about 60, whose affliction had more ot less preyed on his mind ever since, and [who of late had not been enjoying good (health, committed suicide in. the Wai-' hi Hospital at an early hour yesterday' (morning. An inquest will be heid. —I i(P.A.) i The report of F. W. Furkert, the En-[ ginecr-in-Ohicf of the Public Works Department, concerning the bursting of the Mount Eden reservoir on March (4, was considered by a. special meeting 1 'of the Auckland City Council Waterworks Committee yesterday. The! Mayor declared subsequently that there 1 yas absolutely nothing for publica-' (tion. The committee’s recommendation would be tabled at Thursday’s' council meeting. The Prime Minister, Sir Joseph, Ward, and Sir George Fowlds have;

(been elected to and accepted the office/ (of patrons of the New Zealand Esper-, 1 ante Association which was formed by. Esperantists in a Dominion Confer-1 enee held in Wellington on January! ,26 last. Both gentlemen have long,’ been interested in the Esperanto move- 1 ment, and both were patrons of the! former national -organisation, estab-1( liwhed in HM4, which ceased- to func-| tion during the years of the world war. A ease of serge brought by the Horo- ( rata from England was overcarried from Auckland to Bluff. It was there ( stowed in a wharf shed for a time and , then reshipped to Auckland. The Ho- [ -orata on the return trip, called at! Wellington and Napier. On Sunday afternoon the ease was found to be [ empty, though there was no external ' evidence of its having been tampered ! ,with. It contained five bolts of serge, .valued at £l5O. The vessel was searched without trace of the missing material.—(P.A.) Cabled advice was received, in Wellington yesterday by the Prime. Minister from the High Commissioner in London that the funeral of the late Chief Justice (Sir Charles Skcrrett), who died at sea while en route for England, will take place in England on March 20. Hitherto there has been uncertainty as to whether the remains were to be brought back for interment in New Zealand. The High Oommismoner will act as pall-bearer, representing the "New Zealand Govern- ' Trent. A tan.named, Dick Ball (46), single, a rabbiter engaged on, Mie Vernon Es- ' fate near Blenheim, was found dead 1 beside a cart track on- the properly on i Saturday evening. Deceased was seen’' passing the homestead in a dogcart in ■ tine late afternoon bound for a rabbit- ! ers’ camp. His mate, William Brown,' saw the horse and cart arrive at the camp without the driver. He ircmedi- < ately searched, and found. Ball lying. face downwards beside the track with 1 a fractured skull. The deceased’s. mother resides at Levin.—(P.A.) In an address to the Municipal Con- ■ ference at Wanganui this month, the ' Director of Town-Planning (Mr J. W.' Mawson) dealt in considerable detail 1 with questions of regional and town-' planning and foreshadowed some im- ' portant changes in the plan, of opera- 1 tions meantime developed in this coun- 1 try with a view to bringing these reforms into operation. In particular, he emphasised the importance of regional planning as a foundation for townplanning. Mr Mawson accepted an invitation from the Mayer of Masterton (Mr T. Jordan) to address a public meeting in this town on a date to be arranged. A very successful function was held by the Tiani branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union on the courts of the Mangapakeha Tennis Club last Tuesday afternoon. Tennis, bazaar stalls and competitions pro- [ vided varied attractions and there was a good ailendance. A very pleasant , afternoon was spent by all present and the sum of £2B was raised. The result is one upon which the ladies of the Tinui branch of the Women’s Division (of which Mrs Laird Meredith is president and Mrs Bellis is secretary) are ' to be congratulated. The Tinui brnn- 7, is raising a local fund in furtherance of the bush, nurse and housekeeper scheme, which is being developed actively and is serving an excelent pur pose in the Tinui district. Severe burns resulting from her i clothes catching fire while she was us- ' ing benzine in the vicinity of a wash B ' ing copper fire yesterday morning led ■ to the death four hours later of Mrs , Eliza Shirtcliffe, aged 35, who resided , with her husband and five-year-old , child at Otakeho, fifteen miles from .iawera. Deceased had been doing the . household washing at a copper fire out- 1 side the house. About ten o’clock a f neighbour saw her rolling in the grass < with her clothes blazing and found she i was terribly burnt on the legs and | body. On a chair near the copper was I found a bottle of benzine which she | admitted she hnd been using to clean < a dross. Mrs Phirteliffe was admitted c to the Ha were Hospital at one o’clock, a but expired an hour later.—(P.A.) t