LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 4 November 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The vital statistics for Carterton Jfor October were: Births/ 5; deaths, 4; marriages, '. At the Optimist Club luncheon, today Mr. A. J. Daysh will be the speaker. The subject of his address will be “Brain, the Master of Destiny. ’ ’ On October 28 the .Supreme Court granted probate of the will of -Mary Hunter, late of Masterton, married woman, to the Public Trustee the executor named in the will.

. Charles Edwin Smith, aged eight, was severely burned yesterday morning through his clothing catching fire when he ■ was playing with fireworks near a gas stove at Auckland. The child’s mother, in beating the fire out, had her arms burned. Both were taken to hospital.—(P.A.) Joseph Cunningham, a. farmer, of Croydon, aged 70, died jn the Gore Hospital on Sunday from injuries received in a level crossing accident at Gore on October 28. The 'deeeased was a widower, and leaves a family of seven children, the eldest being 20 years of age.—(P.A.) A ballot of downstairs patrons of the Cosy Theatre was taken by the tnanagement on Saturday evening onthe question of abolishing the booking bf seats in that part of the house. (The ballot resulted in a 75 per cept. majority in favour of retaining the booking system. J. P. Hornabrook, of the Masterton Golf Club, who put up such a sensational game against A. Duncan at the New Zealand championship, went round the Lansdowne links in the fine score of 70, taking 33 out and 37 in. Although this score is not equal to the record, held by T. H. Horton, it was nevertheless a sterling performance, as the par of the course is 75: Thirty-five constables and five -sergeants at 9 o 'clock on Saturday night conducted simultaneous raids on five restaurants and a house kept by Dalalso a shop, reports am Auckland Press Association telegram. A quantity of liquor was removed in two police vans, and prosecutions are to follow.

The body of a man of about" 65 to, 70 years of age was found un'der the trees in the bottom of "a gully on- the Great South Road, Auckland, on: Sunday. Alongside was a -stick of gelignite with a piece bitten off,' several l detonators and a piece of fuse. In the deceased's hand was held''a matchbox and one dead match. Through falling into a shallow vat containing a solution of caustic soda at J. C. Hutton’s works, Ngahauranga, at 8.40 yesterday morning, Hi Champion, a dipper, who lives at T .Green Street, sustained severe scalds on his face, chest; and' arms and shock. He was taken to the Hospital by the City Ambulance, an’d was later reported by the authorities to> be making satisfactory progress. An unusual and' original scheme of decoration has been 'devised, for the Wairarapa Tramping Club’s dance to, oe held in the Town Hall on Thursday next. Mr. E l . W: Payton,, a vicepresident of the club, has charge of this important: part, of' the’ preparations. The W.F.C.A. Orc-he-.tra, which has created a very favourable impression at -previous, functions, has agreed to play the extras on Thursday night.

A mishap occurred to one of New Zealand Airways’ aeroplanes at North Taieri. The aeroplane;, a Sparton, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Symons, who was accompanied' by a passenger, fouled the electric power lines in the vicinity of the aerodrome ’and came to grief. Forunately it was the tailskid' that struck the wires. Two power lines were pulldd down, but the aeroplane was not damaged. Th® occupants escaped injury.—(PA..) Professor Percival, head of the Freshwater Scientific Research Board, is to pay a visit of inspection to Wairarapa rivers on Thursday. Prior to meeting the members of the North Wairarapa (Sub Committee of the ■Wellington Acclimatisation -Society at •the Masterton Fish Hatcheries at 12.30 p.m. Professor Percival will inspect the Tauherenikau, Waiohine, Maugat'ariri and Waingawa rivers. He will later proceed to Pahiatua.

Leslie John McDonald, a piano salesman, who was reported from Auckland as missing, returned to Wanganui on Saturday. He had been working in North Auckland, an'd his letters to -his wife in Wanganui had been delayed. Not having heard from him, his wife communicated with friends in Auckland, who notified the police in that city. Mrs McDonald did not communicate with the police, and had no knowledge that her friends had done so.

The following item appeared in a recent number of the “British Imperial Frontier Man,’’ as to an old record dated 1901 -concerning the introduction of 'deer into New ZeaJlpcl: “Thirty-eight years -ago six red deer f-apture'd in Windsor Park (England) were presented by the late Prince Consort to the New Zealand Government. Only one stag and two hinds survived the voyage. These wore liberated on Mr. Carter's estate in the Wairarapa district. From these a huge herd numbering many thousands sprang, and the deer uro now distributed over a large area of country. That would be about sixty-two years ago, and now we are cursing them as pests!''