LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 19 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND G ENERAL.

A fire starting at nine o’clock yesterday morning destroyed tho bins of the Bcllvue co-opcrativo coal party, at the 8-mile peg on tho Grey-Westport Road. The bins contained a hundred tons of coal, all being consumed. There was an insurance of £5OO, but tho loss is considerably, greater. Tho restoration of the bins will cost £7OO. The fire continued all day. For the convenience of members in tho Mastorton district, the Wairarapa Automobile Association has appointed Messrs H. J. Jones and Co. local agents. Mr. Jones has been a member of the executive for a number of years and has taken a very active part in the work of the association for tho benefit of motorists generally. Information regarding roads, camping grounds, hotels, insurance etc. will be given members on request. Subscriptions may also be paid at Messrs Jones and Co’s, office.

A young man named Allan Benge, 18 years of age, was found hanging vesterday outside tho bathroom, of a whare on Mr. J. A. Toogood’s station, “Ngaiana,” Homewood, where he was employed as a farm hand. Apparently he had just had a bath ns he kas naked when found by Mr. Toogood, at •about 12.30 p.m. The deceased’s mother, Mrs A. Benge, resides in Sydney, and he was a nephew of Mrs James Burr, of Cornwall Street, Maa>terton. An inquest will bo’held at <4 Ngaiana” to-day. Denying that Cabinet had summoned leading economists of the Dominion for a conference to advise on a plan for the rehabilHUtlon trt NW Zealand’s financial position, the Prime Mr. Forbes, stated in Christchurch on Saturday that the Minister of Finance had simply invited to Wellington the members of the National Economy Commission with a view to a report presented some time ago by that body being brought up to date in certain respects. Mr. Forbes declared that Cabinet had not had a conference *with economists concerning a future policy for the country. —(PA.) It is announced officially that the No. 6 Transport Licensing Authority has decided to grant Mr. A. J. J. Chapman's application for postponement of the period of suspension of his passenger-service license, CartertonMasterton, pending the hearing of an appeal which he has now lodged against the decision of the Authority, given in Mastorton on December 7. At tho inquiry it was alleged that Mr. Chapman had failed to conduct tho service in conformity with the terms and conditions of the licence. The Authority suspended the licence for two calendar months, from December 4. It seems likely that butter will advance in value, according to a. Dunedin report. 'Some New Zealand agents who of late have not been keen on buying for export, the report states, arc now nibbling at the market with slightly rising offers for January and February wleliveries. So far the move is not of groat weight, but it has significance, and in any case ,is more cheering than the dowward trend in some other lines. Forward activity which is regarded as a hopeful feature is reported in the butter market in the Manawatu district, according to a Press Association message from Palmerston North. It is stated that an offer of 9|d a lb has been made for January-February shipment.

At tho request of Mr. Len J. Greenberg, who is to take charge of the agricultural training camp for boys, opening at Penrose on December 28, •the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union is organising through its district branches an appeal for supplies for the camp of vegetables, cakes and jam. The Mastorton branch of the Division will assist as far as possible, but is committed in the first instance to collecting supplies for holiday camp for boys which is being organised by Mr. A. E. Bate, General Secretary of the Mastorton Y.M.C.A. The other branches of tho Division throughout the district will collect supplies for the camp nt the Training Farm at Penrose. The question of transport and other arrangements will be gone into forthwith. First aid for Coughs. Colds. ’Flu. • Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure