LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Age, 29 August 1933, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

A donation to the Boys’- Band Which was overlooked, was from the Adams Bruce Cake Company, per Mr. Goudge. A motor car and a motor truck eollided at the corner of Archer and Church streets about noon yesterday. Both vehicles were damaged but neither driver suffered any injury. A further fall in the price of petrol took place in Masterton yesterday, when the major companies reduced the price by one penny. First grade is now Is lid and second grade Is lOd. Bequests expected to total £BOOO are provided for Auckland orphanages and £5OO for the Community Sunshine Association in the will of John Davidson, of Mount Eden, who died at the age of 82, leaving an estate which has been valued for probate at under £14,000.—(P.A.) The hon. secretary of the Babies’ Milk Fund acknowledges with grateful thanks receipt of the following donations:—D. J. Donald, ss; per Miss Wingate, 4s OJd; Waingawa Freezing Works staff, 8s 3d; Mrs. Gilman and staff, Empire Hotel, 10s; boxes, 9s 2d; gas fitters (borough), Is; office girls (borough), lOd; Mrs. Cornick, 3s 7d: M., 2s 6d.

William Henry Charles McKay, aged 29, who jumped from a train at Mercer on August 5 when he was being brought by warders from Christchurch to Auckland to serve a sentence of six months’ imprisonment, was sentenced at Auckland yesterday by Mr. Justice Herdman to two years’ hard labour for escaping from lawful custody.—(P.A.) At midnight on Friday the houseboat near Whakahora, on the Wanganui River, was burned, reports “The Chronicle.” Two men who were sleeping on board, Messrs J. Jackson and P. Ropiha, were awakened by the flames and just managed to get ashore before their, means of escape had been cut off. All their possessions were lost in the blaze.

Mr. W. C. Orange presided over a large attendance at a meeting of the Wairarapa Wrestling Association, held last night. In the course of a general discussion on the postponed Walker bout, it was stated that the association felt itself duty-bound to keep faith with the public and, although several other good matches had been offered, it had been decided to spare no efforts to secure the appearance of Walker at the earliest possible date. A phenomenon was noticed in Maaterton early yesterday morning when the footpaths and asphalt roads in many parts of the borough were covered with yellow sediment, resembling sulphur, following a warm rainfall on Bunday. Such “sulphur rains” are of fairly common occurrence, and are usually explained by the fact that large quantities of pollen from trees in flower has been lifted into the air by the wind, and is washed down by a shower.

The following'members of the White Star Boxing Club will compete at the South. Island amateur championships, to be staged at Blenheim on September 6:—A. Martin, flyweight; J. Cadwallader, bantamweight; O'. Cadwallader, lightweight; R. Page, welterweight; M. Spring, middleweight and light heavyweight. S. Reid will also accompany the party and will compete in the heavyweight' class. The boxers will be in charge of their trainer, Mr. A. J. Allison, whose boys won seven out of nine championships at the recent .Wairarapa championship tournament.

Hundreds of Auckland schoolboys invaded the Japanese training ship Bhintoku Maru when she thrown open for their inspection yesterday morning. They took charge of the ship, and their hosts did everything possible to show them all there was to be seen. Many of the boys appeared more interested in improving their collections of matchbox tops than in learning how the young Japanese is taught the ways of the sea. Exhibitions of kendo, Japanese fencing, and judo, or ju-jitsu, given on the wharf, were loudly applauded. The ship will be open to schoolgirls on Thursday morning, and adults in the afternoon, and it is expected that she will sail for Kobe, her home port, on Saturday.—(P.A.)