LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 15 February 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A very enjoyable dance and card evening was held in St. Patrick’s Assembly Hall on Tuesday night. There was a good attendance. The winners of the progressive euchre tournament Were Mrs. Herbert, Mr. Delaney, while Miss M. McKenna and Mr. E. J. Eastwood, were the winners of the bridge tournament. Excellent music for the dancing -was supplied by the Blue River Dance Band. Supper was provided by a ladies’ committee.

“Up to the present, as far as the auditors have gone, the defalcations amount to about £5OO, though it may be more,’’ said Chief-Detective Dunlop, when Leslie Cecil Johnson, described as a farmer, aged 53, was charged in the Christchurch Police Court yesterday, with making a false document by altering a genuine receipt in some material part with the intention that it should be acted upon as genuine, thereby committing forgery. ChiefDetective Dunlop said that the accused had been an employee of Gold Band Taxis, and it was money belonging to’ that firm that was concerned. The accused was remanded, find bail was allowed.—(P.A.) As was reported recently, first prize in the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board export lamb competition was won this year by a Wairarapa lady, Mrs. William Barton, of Featherston. The prize is for the best pen of lambs produced for export in the North Island, and Mrs. Barton outclassed a large number of competitors. Her success is the more meritorious. considering that the season in the Wairarapa was less favourable than m other parts of the North Island. The prize-winners were from ewes bred by Messrs A. and J. Gray, Masterton, by Southdown rams bred by Mr. Arthur Tocker, of Lowlands, Featherston. This was the first contest in which Mrs. Barton had entered lambs and she is the first lady to win the trophy.

A motion describing statements by the Mayor of Dunedin (the Rev. E. T. Cox) as devoid of truth and as a studied insult, and expressing the opinion that, he should publicly apologise, was carried at a meeting of the Mayor’s Relief Committee. A threat by the Mayor that if the motion were carried he would disband the committee and organise another was later withdrawn, but the Mayor refused to withdraw the statement made or to apologise. The Mayor had described a motion at a previous meeting as “the culmination of a series of brutal attempts to rob innocent children and defenceless women of the small measure of assistance arranged for them.” The Mayor had also accused the committee of sitting on the fund, and had likened the men members to Dickens’s Bumble and the female members to Madame Defarge.—(P.A.)