LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 1 November 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

It is anticipated that regular killing will commence at the Waingawa fi’reezing Works about November 17.

The Technical School Old Students’ Association is holding a dance this evening in the Municipal Social Hall. The following are the vital statistics for October with the figures for the corresponding month last year in parentheses: Births, 20 (34); marriages, 6 (8); deaths, 7 (5). Bro. Thornely, official organiser of the Loyal Orange Lodge, will occupy the pulpit of the Congregational Church, to-morrow, when a church parade of the Lodge will be held. A ballot of downstairs patrons of the Cosy Theatre is to be taken by the management this evening on the question of abolishing the booking of seats in that part of the house.

The Masterton Borough Council issued seven ibnilding permits of a value of £2375 during the month of October, as compared! with 21 permits to the value of £10,917 17s for the corresponding month: last year. No building , permits were issued by the Masterton , County Council for October. The criminal session of the Supremo oOurt ait Dunedin was concluded yes- . terday when Thomas Evere'd Steel, i charged, with manslaughter, was found not guilty and Henry Samuel Clegg, ; who had! pleaded gdilty to indecently assaulting a girl-? . aged about seven | years, was ordered, to be detained for reformative purposes for two years.— . (F.A.) l In an un'defended divorce suit before Mr. Justice Ostler in the Supreme : Cburt at Wellington yesterday Charles ; Robert Bidwill, a farmer of Featherston, was granted a decree nisi to be absolute within three months 'against Marie Thelma Bidwill, on the ground off adultery. Philip James Keddell was cited as co-respon'dent.—(P.A.) Thirty-one motor drivers’ licenses were issued by the Masterton Borough Council for October, making the total issued to date 1614. For the same period the Council issued 4 heavy traffic 1 licenses bringing the total to Hate to 174. The Masterton County Cbuncil issued 13 motor drivers’ licenses in October, making the total issued to date 1'097. The council also issued 1 heavy traffic license, making a total of 25.

An address on “Educational Developments Abroad” is to be delivered at the Masterton Technical School at 16.30 ajn. to-day by Professor W. H. Gould, of Victoria College, who returned recently from an extended tour of European countries and America. Professor Gould is lecturing at the invitation of the Masterton Branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute, but members of the general public as well as teachers are invited to attend.

A copy has been received of “Britons Over the Sea,” a patriotic song written and composed by hEss J. Morison, of Masterton. The words are an effective praise and celebration of the blessings of British liberty. The music is a. pleasant, lilting melody, written in a simple key. ‘ * Britons Over the Sea ’ ’ should win ready popularity as a school song and may also be played as a piano solo. Miss Morison’s latest production is an excellent example of its kind and one upon which she is to be congratulated.

The increasing utility of commercial aviation in New Zealand is convincingly demonstrated by the experience of Mr. A. D. Short, the wellknown judge of Shorthorns, who, in order to carry out judging engagements at Gisborne and Blenheim Shows, chartered a ’plane from Commercial Airways Ltd. Without this rapid means of transport it would have been impossible for Mr. Short to have included both: shows,, but the Hermes engined iSimmonds Spartan •plane, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant H. Buekridge, transported' Mr. Short rapidly an'd comfortably to Gisborne and from there on? to Blenheim

Judgment, for plaintiff by default was l given in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this week by , Mr. J. Miller, S.M., in the following undefended claims: & M. Baird, Ltd., v. Nathaniel Malcolm, £ll, costs £2 14s; F. Norris v. V. Grantham, £4 17s 5d,. costs £1 3s 6d; G. H. Perry and Co., Ltd., v. S. H. Knapp, £l2 Os Bd, costs £2 14s; James Jenkin v. R. W. Perry, £lO 2s, costs £2 14s; Wairarapa Hospital Board v. Thomas Emerson, £lO Is, costs £2 14s. On a judgment summons Freeman Jesse Steel was prtlered to pay Joseph Charles James Ewington the sum of £l5 Ils lid forthwith, in default 16 days imprisonment.

A fine of £7 an’d costs £1 17s 6d was imposed on Jack Hiroti, who appeared in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court yesterday on a charge of having driven a car in a manner which was likely to be dangerous to the public. Mr. R. R. Burridge stated that the attention of the Borough Traffic Inspector was attracted to defendant’s ear by a lou'd roar. It passed him at a high meed, estimated at 40 to 45 miles af hour. At the Walton’s Avenue Intersection it almost collided with another motor vehicle, which had just emerged from Walton’., Avenue. Two children crossing the road had to make a 'dash for the footpath. “Accused,” said Mr. Burridge, “was supposed to be going to Wanganui to see a dying sister, but it is significant that he was charged and convicted on the following 'day at Wanganui with having been drunk while in charge of the car in question, (which was a borrowed one.”

Half-ton Sutton’s Supreme seed po tatoes for sale.