LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 11 March 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A man named T. Lee was admitted to the Masterton Hospital on Saturday night suffering from injuries received at the Waingawa Freezing Works picnic hold at Solway.

During February 24 births, 6 deaths and 7 marriages were registered in Masterton. In February of last year the registrations of births were 20, while the deaths and marriages were the same as for February of this year.

The Mt. Holdsworth Committee has donated three four-feet concrete pipes to the Wairarapa South County Council in connection with the repairs being carried out at the first stream on the Mount Holdsworth Road.

The weekly luncheon of the Masterton. Optimist's Club is to be held at the Y.M.C.A. to-day when Optimist G. R. Sykes M.P. will be the speaker. A full attendance of members is requested, and visitors with an optimistic smile are invited to attend*. ;•

A goods train loaded with coal became derailed at Tuakau as the result of striking a broken hook which had fallen across th© line, reports an Auckland Press Association message. Two wagons left the line. The blockage was cleared without any delay to the main line traffic.

Support for Sir Thomas Sidey's suggestion that the school summe| vacation should.be taken in. February instead of at Christmas was given by the South Taranaki branch of the Edu-r cations! Institute, which decided to send a remit to the annual conference of the institute®

A London cablegram states that Lady Patricia Ramsay unveiled a portrait of her father, the Duke of Connaught, at the headquarters of the League of Empire. The picture was painted by the Australian, Mr. James Quinn. It is a replica of Sargent’s portrait at Clarence House.

The wife of Joseph Gallagher, a sea-faring man, was found dead by her son on Sunday, reports an Auckland Press Association message. At the inquest, the Coroner returned a verdict of suicide by poisoning. A daughter stated that her mother had been depressed and melancholy for some time past.

In the appeal case, A. G. Tinkham and A. EL Tinkham versus J. S. Jessep, heard in the Supreme Court on Saturday, Mr. J. Macfariane Laing appeared for the respondent and Mr.. H. R. Biss for appelant. Owing to a slip, counsel were given in reverse order in a paragraph which appeared yesterday. A large gathering at Waiomatatini on Sunday witnessed the linveiling of the memorial to the late Lady Ngata, the ceremony being performed by the Acting-Prime Minister (the Hon. G. W. Forbes). A memorial to Makarini Ngata, son of the Native Minister, was unveiled by Mr. K. S. Williams, M.P. Mr. Forbes, after attending Native functions at- Waiomatatini, visited Te Araroa yesterday. A protest against the pew regulations providing that probationer teachers mus-t pass a special entrance examination before being admitted to a training college has been passed by the South Taranaki branch of Educational Institute. A motion was passed asking that the enforcing of the regulations be postponed till l next year, or that exemption be granted for subjects passed in matriculation or the teachers' “D” examination.

The British Etaapire Games Committee decided last night, reports a Wellington message, that the £lOOO given, by Canada towards the funds of the New Zealand team of athletes to compete at the British Empire games at Hamilton, Canada, next August be allotted to the equipment and expenses of the Dominion rowing eight. It was stated that other branches of sport had foregone their share of the money in order to make it possible to send a rowing eight.—(P.A.) At a meeting of the committee of the Wairarapa High School Old Girls’ Association held last evening, it was decided to hold tennis and basketball competitions between members and present pupils at the High School on the afternoon of Saturday, April 5. A relay race may also be included in the programme of the afternoon. It is hoped that the Old Boys' and Old Girls' associations may be able to arrange for a social gathering in the Orange Hall on the evening of April 5.

Mr. J. A. Seott, who has been president and secretary of the New Zealand Chiropractors' Association for a number of years has agreed to act for one year as technical adviser to the British Chiropractors' Association and will also establish a monthly chiropractic publication for that As sociation. On the eve of his departure Mr. Scott has been elected an honorary life-member of the New Zealand Chiropractors' Association and has also been presented with a cheque, accompanied with the assurance of a hearty welcome, when he is in a position to resume work in New Zealand Mr. and Mrs Scott leave for England on Thursday.

Reliable help wanted. Cottage to let, Perry Street. Bundle boy's cricket clothes lost. Long-haired Brindle dog lost from Kumu Kumu. Advertiser wishes to lease six-room-ed house. Wardsmaid wanted for Masterton Public Hospital. A free cooking by gas demonstration will be held in the Municipal Gas Showroom to-day, at 2.30. The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Coursing Club will be held in the F.C.D.C. rooms on Thursday, at 8 p.m. The Masterton Borough Council invite tenders for painting and papering of the gasworks residence, in Pownall Street. The W.F.C.A., Ltd., will hold a clearing sale to-morrow on account of Mr. C. A. Burling, at Pongaroa yards, at noon. Cars leave Masterton office at 8 a.m.