LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

t This evening from 7.30 to 8.30 a Christmas carol programme provided by the Salvation Army is to be broadcast from the Masterton station 2ZD. Special singing will be included in the /programme and Captain E. H. Riseley will give a short address.

To-morrow evening the Masterton Municipal Band will play a programme of music in tho Park, beginning at 7 o’clock. Christmas carols, hymns and a number of new selections will be included in the programme. Presbyterian Church Christmas services will be held on Sunday, December 25, at Mauriceville at 11 a.m., and at Lansdowne at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. No church service will be held at Rangitumau.

Tho Masterton Municipal Band held twelve practices during November. The Band competed at the Contest held in Masterton on November 19, gaining second place in the Quickstep and third place in the selection. The following head of stock was slaughtered at the Municipal Abattoirs during November: Cattle, 210; calves, 54; sheep, 990; lambs, 547; pigs, 240. Fees received for the month amounted to £232 17s 9d.

A dance has been arranged to take place in St. Patrick’s Assembly Hall on the evening of Boxing Day. Flannels arc optional and Minifie’s orchestra will provide the music. Old-time and modern dancing will be included in the programme from 8 p.m. till 1.30 a.m.

•Swimming at the intermediate junior provincial championships in Dunedin last evening W. J. Jarvis, intermediate title-holder, won the 100 yards in 59 secs. This is the first time the minute has been broken by an Otago swimmer.

Jarvis was never extended and won easily from R. Geddes.—(P.A.)

The following are the figures for the Masterton Municipal Libraiy for the month of November: —Books issued fiction, 3816; travel, 41. Books added: Fiction, 65. Subscribers at end of October, 464; new subscribers, nil; subscribers left during November 5; total subscribers at end of November, 459.

The Tararua Power Board on Monday reviewed its staffing, and made wages reductions of approximately 5 per cent, in the clerical and management staffs, and 8 per cent, in the engineers’ department, involving the whole of the staff, while the outside men arc required to stand down one day a week. Tho total saving will be £3OO annually.—(P.A.) At the annual meeting of the Lans downe Presbyterian Church congregation on Monday night tho present Board of Managers was re-elected as follows; Mesdames A. G. Gibson and Collie and Messrs R. C. Drummond, P. C. Taylor, G. Carswell, G. McGovern, W. Aitken, J. G. Mac Kay, C. C. Horsbrugh, F. G. Wrigley, C. Hay, E. Hubball, A. Mac Cormack, H. W. Arcus apd A. G. Gibson.

At last night’s meeting of the Borough Council, a letter was received from the Wairarapa Hospital Board, asking whether tho counci'l could provide work within tho borough for a number of single men classified as 82. It was decided to advise the board that the council regretted that it could not make room for the men. The Engineer, said Mr T. Jordan, could not find work for all tho able-bodied men.

As the outcome of a resolution passed at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council no swimming will be allowed in future in the Park lake after 9 a.m. on Sundays, Christmas Day and Good Friday. The motion was moved by Councillor A. Rippon and supported by several other councillors. Councillor W. L. Free made it clear that he supported- the resolution only as it affected tho quietness of the Park on Sundays. “The remarks about costumes and sun bathing,” he said, “are a bit too womanish for us to discuss.’’

On Saturday evening last memberr of the Masterton “Y” Branch entertained the members of the Solway Men’s Home with a concert. The entertainment opened with the singing of Christmas carols, followed by a Scottish quartette by Misses Cocker, Wellington, O’Donnell and Jamieson. Besides a number of solos and recitations, a short dialogue was presented by Miss E. Beid, Messrs D. Fairbrother, H. Tongs and G. Leighton, followed by an instrumental item by Messrs E. Steer and E. Jones. Every inmate of the Home received a bag of sweets, and the evening was brought to a close with the singing of “Auld Lang Sjyne.”