LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 7 April 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A movement is on foot to establish a First Aid Class in Greytown, and at a preliminary meeting twenty-four members were enrolled.

In the final of the ladies’ tennis championship of the Carterion Club, played between Mrs Steel and Miss F. Booth, the latter, after a good game, was victorious, 6/2, 6/3.

A short but decidedly sharp earthquake w felt here and in other parts of .no Wellington district at about ten minutes to ten o’clock on Saturday morning. What is believed to be a Now Zealand record was created at the Beaumont Racing Club’s meeting on Satur day, when J. Dooley rode the winner of each of the six galloping events on the programme.—(P.A.) The suspension bridge over the Hutt River opposite Haywards, erected, some years ago by Mr. W. H. George, was fcwept away by the flood of Friday night. It is understood that the bridge v/as insured in Lloyd’s. Mr. George is expected to arrive ffom Aus tralia in the course of a few days. A girl nineteen years of age, who was found sleeping out, was a? re'ted in Featherston on Saturday. She later appeared before a Justice of the Peace to answer a charge of vagrancy and was remanded for seven days to appear in Wellington. In a Rugby match played at Athletic Park, Islington, on Saturday, Miramar defeated Gladstone by 17 points to 5. Gladstone led 5 to 3 at half-time but in the second spell Miramar’s better combination began to have its effect. For Gladstone Whaanga scorco a try which Jack converted. The speaker at-to-day’s luncheon of the Jias ier ton Optimist Club will be Mr. W. H. Cooker, B.A. LL.B., President of the Auckland W.E.A. Mr. Cocker will spoak on u New Zealand and the British Commonwealth.” No doubt there will be a full attendance of members, as Mr; Cocker is well qualified ‘‘j speak on the subject chosen for his address, which should be a particularly interesting one. A washout occurred in the early hours of Saturday morning on the southern approach to the railway bridge over the Tauherenikau River near Fernside. About half a chain of track was left suspended forty or fifty feet above the flood-waters*. The last train to cross before the washout was the Auckland Limited, at midnight. No trains were able to get across on Saturday, passengers, mails and luggage having to be transhipped, but the track was made passable again yesterday. William Hansen, of Patea, a wharf labourer aged about 55, was killed instantly on the River Bridge shortly before noon yesterday, a Hawera Press Association message reports, when a motor cycle he was riding collided with a car driven by a Maori, J; Rowe, of Patea, who was proceeding'to Hawera with two companions. Rowe states that his car was first on the bridge and stopped when Hausen approached from the other end. Hansen seemed to lose control of his cycle, swerving and striking a mudguard of the car. Hansen was thrown against the metal bodywork, receiving terrible head injuries. Hansen was re turning alone to Patea from Teroti, near Hawera, where he had spent the week-end w?th his wife.

The nineteenth annual conference of the United District Fire Brigades’ Association was held at Waipukurau on Saturday. The official report showed that 21 brigades were affiliated to-the association. The credit balance was £59. A remit from Dannevirke that, in view' of the financial depression, the subscription be reduced by ten shillings, was lost. The election of officers resulted: President, Superintendent R. A. Anderson, Marton; vice-presidents, Foreman A. S. Annand (Waipukurau), Superintendent H. Matson (Carterton), Foreman H. W. Hartley (Taihape) Deputy-Superintendent W. Minctt \Masterton); treasurer, Deputy-Super-intendent H. J. Price (Hasting®); secretary, Superintendent, R. Henderson (Hastings); auditor, J. D. Donovan 'Hastings).—(P.A.) A sensation was caused in racing circles in Invercargill on Saturday \morning when it was learned that three 'horses, Rin Tin Tin, Caterpillar and Francolin, who were engaged at the Riverton meeting the same day, w-ere in a bad way as the result of what w r as believed to be the effects of doping. The three horses were found early in the morning in their boxes and appeared to be suffering great pain. Francolin and Caterpillar were right flown to it and were scouring badly (but Rin Tin Tin did not seem to be so greatly affected. The services of a veterinary surgeon were summoned but it is understood that the cause of the trouble had been diagnosed on Saturday night. During the day, the three horses, who of course, could take no part in the day’s racing showed signs of improvement. —(P.A.) Atwater Kent radio for sale. e Saddle and bridle for sale. x Euchre party and dance will be held in St. Patrick’s Assembly Hall tonight. Minifie’s Orchestra. Domestic position wanted by experienced girl. Live representative wanted. Capable girl to assist for few weeks wanted. E. L. Taplin advertises that poison is laid,for dogs on her property at Carrington. An auction sqje of bankrupt stock will be held p,t High Street, Carterton, to-morrow, at 12.30 p.m. The gentlemen’s hairdressing and tobacconist business recently conducted by the late R. J. Gayfer at High Street, Carterton, will be continued in the same premises until further notice. The ladies’ department will be discontinued. AH persons having claims against the estate of the late Ronald Jack Gayfer, hairdresser and tobacconist, High Street, Carterton, are requested to forward same to the Carterton Trust and Agency Co., Ltd., Carterton, not later than April 18.