LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A Presbyterian Church service will be held at Wangaehu on Sunday next, February 18, at 2.30 p.m..

Particulars in detail of traffic tallies taken in the Masterton County from December 10 to December 16, 1933, inclusive, with comparative particulars for June last, are given on page 3. At a meeting in Dunedin yesterday, the directors of the Standard Insurance Company decided to declare a dividend of Is 3d per share for the half-year ended December 31, .1933, payable on March S.—(PA.) The Masterton Technical School advertises full details of the 1934 session commencing on Monday, February 19. Enrolments for all classes will be made on and after Monday next and full particulars may be obtained on application to the Acting-Principal. It was resolved at yesterday’s meeting of the Mast&rton County Council to have the surface of the Te Whiti Bridge sanded and tarred. It was stated that the slippery surface of the bridge was dangerous for travelling stock in wet weather.

Sitting as the Te 'Ore Ore River Board yesterday, the Masterton County Council appointed Mr. H. Sladden to examine and classify all the rateable property within the Te Ore Ore River District. As his services would be required for departmental work for some time, the District Valuer (Mr. E. P. Fowler) was not available to carry out the work.

The Masterton Esperanto Club held the first class of the year in the Y.M.CA. Rooms last evening. There was a good attendance. Members were pleased to meet again Mr. H. Arthurs, who has returned from England after an absence of four years. To-night a talk on “The Use of Esperanto in Travel Abroad” will be given from Station 2ZD, Masterton, at 8.30 o’clock.

The February meeting of the MauVice ville-Ihuraua branch of the Women ’s Division of the Farmers' Union was held at the home of Mrs. Forsberg, Mauriceville West, Mrs. Dagg presiding. Two new members were welcomed. A vote of sympathy was passed with Mesdames Goodgaane and Brunton, each having lost her husband recently. Members stood in silence. The competition—“the best article made from old stockings” was won by Mrs. P. E. Mortensen, Miss Edna Dagg coming second.

V Swung up from the wharf like so much scrap iron and hoisted, indeed, in the very trays which are used for loading scrap and pig iron, £106,000 worth of silver coins left Lyttelton yesterday never to return. The coins, packed in heavily-sealed wooden boxes, were English and Australian silver currency, which has been withdrawn from circulation and replaced by the new issue. The coins are now on their way to by the Zealandic, which left Lyttelton this afternoon. This is the largest consignment of silver coin yet Returned from New Zealand to London.

The recommendations of the Principal of the High School and the Ac-ting-Principal of the Technical School for free text book grants were again considered by the Trust Lands Trust at a special meeting held on Wednesday. The secretary, Mr. W. B. Yates, reported on interviews with the Principals on the. subject and after a lengthy discussion it was decided, on the motion of Mr. J. M. Laing, to pass the list of applications for payment. The Education Committee, with the addition of the chairman of the Finance Committee, was instructed, however, to go into the matter and try and evolve a better system for next year. An amendment by Mr. E. G. Eton that a pro rata reduction of 50 per cent, be made in the applications was lost.

“The Te Ore Ore settlers are disgusted with the way in which we, as a River Board, have been carrying on,” observed Councillor G. Lee at yesterday's meeting of the Masterton County Council. River protection work, he added, was of great urgency, but the council as a board had done nothing. The chairman, Mr. W. I. Armstrong, said the board had only been going for a couple of, months. “They do not realise all the details we have to go through,” he added, “and do not realise that we are endeavouring to protect their intefests." Mr. H. Sladden, one of the council’s engineers, said there had been no delay on the part of the council as a river board. It was all a question of waiting for subsidies.