LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The shade temperature in Master ton yesterday reached 83 degrees. In the final of the ladies' handicap doubles of the Masterton Lawn Tennis Club, played on Saturday, Miss Penney and Miss Perry beat Miss B. Major and Miss N. Carrick, 50/34.

Messrs T. N. Gunter and R'. Clapp (Carterton) and J. Bonis (Greytown) left yesterday for the Waimea District in the South Island to take up gold prospecting under the Government 's scheme.

Yesterday morning at 10 a.m. the Moth 'plane ZK—APT arrived at Masterton from Wellington, piloted by Flight-Lieutenant Gibbons, with Dr. Campbell Begg as a passenger. The 'plane departed for Dannevirke at 12.35 p.m. At the monthly meeting of the League of Mothers, to be held in the Parish Hall to-day at 2.30 p.m., Mrs M. Cleghorn, Principal of St. Matthew's Collegiate School will deliver an address on "Some Impressions of the Work and Status of Women Abroad."

February was one of the worst months in the board's history for electrical storms, the engineer (Mr. H. B. Keenan) reported to yesterday's meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board. An estimate of the cost of repairs to lines and apparatus was approximately £144. A large attendance, from Masterton as well as from the local district, is expected at the bazaar to be held on the Tinui Tennis Courts to-morrow afternoon by the Tinui sub-branch of the Plunket /Society. Well-stocked work, produce and cake stalls will invite patronage and tennis will be played on two excellent courts. Admission will be free.

On view in Mr. W. Orange's premises, Queen Street, are two handsome cups donated by the Herbert Smith Trust for competition among the schools taking part in the annual primary Schools’ Sports which are to be held on the Oval on Friday, March 24. With the number of entries to hand there should be keen competition on the part of each school to secure the trophies. The No. 6 Transport Licensing Authority, comprising Mr. G. A. Troup, Chairman, and Messrs W. Armstrong and S. Jickell, members, will commence its sitting in connection with renewal of passenger-service licenses at the Arbitration Court, Wellington on March 20. The Authority will proceed to Palmerston North on March 21 and to Masterton on March 24. This year’s session of the Masterton Optimist Club commenced with-the luncheon held yesterday. Mr. G. R. Sykes, M.P., was the speaker. He spoke on the Sino-Japanese war and the events leading up to it. Mr. Sykes gave a most comprehensive and interesting survey of conditions in the East at the present time. He was accorded a very hearty vote of thanks for his address.

The Secretary-Manager (Mr. Geo. Brown) reported to yesterday's meeting of the Wairarapa Power Board that, he had not yet had an opportunity to examine a copy of the Local Authorities Interest Reduction and Loans Conversion Act, which has just been passed. It would without doubt reduce the board's annual interest payments, and also reduce the earning power of the sinking fund, depreciation fund, and fixed deposit iuvest4nents. A motorist was proceeding to his residence in Carterton on Monday afternoon when he noticed a peculiar black cloud coming towards him. He could not make it out until the interior of his sedan was filled with a loud buzzing noise and a number of flies encircled his head. The flies were getting thicker, and he was compelled to stop the vehicle in order to drive the flies away. An inspection of the radiator of the car revealed flies thickly embedded between the meshes and bodies were even found in the engine beneath the radiator bonnet.

When the grocers’ dispute was opened in Wellington yesterday before the Conciliation Council a claim that chain store proprietors should have representation was made. After considerable argument, Mr. D. Mouat, one of the master grocers' assessors offered to withdraw and Mr. B. Sutherland was appointed to fill the' vacancy on behalf of the chain stores. Before the Council resumes to-day a conference of the two sections of employers will be held and an endeavour made to settle existing differences.—*(P.A.) The first cargo of chilled beef sent to England from New Zealand has arrived at Home, states a Wellington message. The Commonwealth and Dominion Company’s motor-ship Port Fairy took three hundred hindquarters and three hundred forequarters, shipped by Messrs T. Borthwick and Sbns from their Masterton works, when she left Wellington on February 6 for London, via Cape Horn and Dakar. It was expected that the Port Fairy would take about forty days for the trip, but she arrived in London on Monday after a fast passage of thirty-five days. Neither the shipping company nor the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board has yet received advice as to the success of the shinment.

First aid for Coughs. Colds. ’Flu. * Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure