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Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1934, Page 4

A slight shook of earthquake was felt in Masterton at 9.15 p.m. yesterday, and another at 1.10 ajn. to-day. A small sea bird was picked up dead in the garden of Mrs. Wardell, Te Whiti, on Tuesday morning. It proved to be a specimen of a dove petrel, a species which breeds on islands in Cook Straits. It is not unusual for this bird to be driven inland in an exhausted state during stormy weather.

The quartz mine strike position is unchanged, states a Greymouth Press Association telegram. The Miners’ Union is anticipating struggle and is accepting the offers of five Labour Parliamentarians with mining experience to tour the Australian metal fields in order to obtain support, also the offers of other Labour Parliamentarians to tour New Zealand for the same purpose.

Pleading guilty to carrying on the business of a bookmaker, William Elder, tearooms proprietor, was fined £lOO by Mr. J. H. Salmon, S.M., at Hawera yesterday, in default three months’ gaol. He was also convicted and ordered to pay costs on a charge of keeping a common gaming-house. Elder was previously convicted on two charges of assisting to keep a gam-ing-house. Three men found on the pre- 1 ' mises when the police raided them on March 3 were all fined £2.—(P.A.) Resolutions of protest against the removal of men employed under the No. 5 Scheme from work on school grounds was carried by the Christchurch School Committees’ Association last night. The resolution declared that the men were doing work on Government property and their removal would embarrass school committees already seriously hampered in the matter of finance and that the work done by the relief workers was of a kind which could not be carried out with the decreased Government allowances.—(P.A.) Favourable consideration has been given by the Government to the representations of motoring interests that some arrangement should be made whereby the services of Mr. A. Tyndall should not be completely lost to the Main Highways Board as the result of his recent appointment to the position of Under-Seeretary of Mines. Prior to new office, Mr. Tyndall was engineer to the board and when a suitable opportunity presents itself it Is the intention of the Government to appoint him a member of the board.— (P.A.) Pleading guilty at Rotorua yesterday to a charge of failure, to account for £lO4 16s 7d to a Government Department, a young man was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court, Auckland, by Justices of the Peace. On the application of counsel, an order was made suppressing the accused’s name. Bail was granted in his own recognisance and two sureties of £5O. In evidence, the officer in charge of the Department stated that the accused was a good officer at particular work, but had been reprimanded for slackness in bookkeeping methods which might have accounted for the loss of the money. On the deficiency being discovered, the accused admitted the offence. Detective White produced a statement by the accused admitting the misappropriation of cash. The detective said that inquiries showed the accused to be considered a good character in the town.— (P.A.)

Five-roomed house to let. Advertiser wants to buy high pressure range. Mr. and Mrs. H. Kjestrup elsewhere insert thanks notice.

Advertiser wants to buy ca/bin trunk or sea chest.

Messrs. H. M. Morton & Son, land agents, advertise fresh list of farm properties for sale. Mr. H. L. Esau, seedsman, advertises new season’s novelties in sweet peas, also lawn grass seed for sale. Mr. Wilbur Davies, Cambridge Terrace, elsewhere inserts a special price list of Hawke’s Bay apples, etc., direct from the grower to consumer. Orders by telephone 2O7<> will be delivered free.

Owing to the Lecture Room being used for the St. Patrick’s dance tonight, the St. John Ambulance (Nursing Division) will hold the First Aid Lecture in the Scout Den, Church Street, at 730 o’clock to-night. All persons having claims against the estate of the late Christian Julius Larsen are elsewhere requested to forward same before March 28 to Messrs. Major & Major, solicitors for the exeen’rix, Eketahuna.