LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 March 1929, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Weather permitting, the M-astcrton Municipal Band will play a programme of music on Sunday afternoon on the Park Rotunda. The Grey town Chamber of Commerce has decided tc support a request by the Grey town Tradesmen’s Association asking for support to have the weekly half-holiday altered. In reply to a request from the Greytown Chamber of Commerce the Chief Postmaster advised that new endeavours were.at present being made to allow for the interchange of postal notes between New Zealand and Australia. Dr.. Mildred Staley, who speaks this afternoon in the Y.M.C.A., was a member of the Ladies’ FanrtPacific Congress. Her statements gave rise to considerable discussion. Doubtless her 'address this afternoon will be interesting and questions will be allowed.

I The members ox the Masterton Es- 1 iperanto class presented a Holy Bible (written in Esperanto to the Rev. S. / Keen last Monday evening, on. the ocicasion of his departure from the dis- 1 tric.t. It was intended that the hon.l president, Mr G. R. Sykes M.P., should) present it next Monday evening at the,: jfirst social of the class, but Mr Keen was not able, to be present. Mr T. Jordan, chairman of the Wai-! rarapa Secondary Education Board, has! 'generously donated to the Masterton! [Technical School a most handsome ’solid silver challenge cup, for competi-l lion at the school’s annual sports meet-1 ing. The trophy has been- allotted to) the champion all-round athlete. The) cup was made locally and is a very! artisitic piece of work. . A suggestion was made at a meeting l of the Greytown Chamber of Com-1 merce this week to instal a warning j gauge at the Waioine River, so that settlers could be warned of floods,) |which sometimes came very 'suddenly/ iThe scheme was considered a good one. It was thought that it should be a district one and extended to the Lake. [The Featherston County Council is to' be communicated with on the matter. ! I Probably no greater tribute could have been paid to the Prime Minister,

• .Sir Joseph Ward, than the welcome accorded him last evening in Invercargill, when over two thousand people asassembled on the occasion of a monster banquet, an Invercargill Press Associ- , ation message states. The gathering , was representative of the whole proi vince. In addition, there was a not- ; able gathering of Cabinet Ministers. James Bryan, a middle-aged man, with a family of six, a railway ganger, was engaged at Tapui yesterday afternoon in shifting rails on a trolley, when his foot caught on the line and he was thrown, reports an Oamaru Press Association message. Two wheels of the trolley passed over his left arm, necessitating his removal to hospital, where it was found necessary to amputate his arm at the shoulder. His condition, is serious. Fifty delegates to the annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of Justices of the Peace Association were tendered a civic reception at New Plymouth yesterday morning. The election of officers resulted: President, Mr H. Trimble (Taranaki); vice-president, Mr A. Lawrence (Timaru); hpn. registrar, Mr I. Salek (Wellington); hon.l auditor, Mr A. Longmore (Wellington). 1 Tt was reported that the total member-1 ship of eleven branches functioning' was 1946.—(P.A. ■; At the Biennual Conference of the 1 Grand Lodge of the 1.0.0. F. of New Zealand, states a Nelson Press Association, the annual report showed that the sick fund stands at £16,941, while the funeral fund is in credit to the extent of £80,831 and te Rebekah sick and funeral fund £7989. Since the last grand session two years ago. the membership has increased to 13,557 and the female members to 3000. while the number of lodges under the jurisdiction of New Zealand is 205. The Grand Trustee’s report shows that the I total amount revested is £270,000. — ) (PA.) All telegrahift and telephonic com- <

•nuniea.tion between Christchurch and Dunedin was severed on Tuesday night by a fire which occurred at Makikihi, 20 miles «outh of Timaru, st 8 o’clock The fire occurred in Makikihi Hotel, on the main South Road, alongside of which rims the- telephone and telegraph wires. So fierce was the heat that the lines, which were only -separated from "the building by a narrow footpath, wore destroyed for some distance. At least one of the poles that held them was also destroyed. All communication was lost- at 8.20 p.m., but was restored at 1 a.m.—(P.A.) Carpenters wanted. Quarter-acre section for sale. Position as shepherd wanted by married man. H. M. Morton and Co. insert a new list of properties for sale.