LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The newly-formed Carterton Association Football Club will play Masterton at Carrington Park to-morrow afternoon. Mr. G. Lamb will be the referee.

Leslie Turner, aged six years, was. playing hoops on the roadway at Clinton when he was struck by- the mudguard of a motor-car. Ho died from his injuries shortly afterwards, states a Dunedin Press Association telegram. At a meeting of the Parents’ Asso? ciation of St. Matthew’s Collegiate School for Girls and the Gid Girls’ Association it was reported that a profit of £56 <Bs had been made on the recent dance. Arrangements were discussed in regard to expending the money on improvements. at the school.

Douglas Palmer Claridge, proprietor of Claridge’s Country Club, in New Brighton Road, a well-known cabaret,, was charged at Christchurch yesterday with keeping the club open on Sunday for the purpose of transacting business, and, as proprietor of a restaurant, with permitting liquor to be drunk on the premises at a time when licensed premises are required to be closed. The hearing was adjourned for a week.—(P.A.) The Hawera branch ,of the New Zealand Red Cross Society, at its annual meeting, passed a motion of no confidence in the present administration of the South Taranaki Council. It was farther decide# that the branch go into recess pending a definite declaration of administrative policy by the newly-formed New Zealand Society and a reconciliation of the contending factions on control executives, as well as an adjustment of the society’s present unsatisfactorily financial position.—(P.A.)

The Christchurch Tramway Board last night decided to give notice of its intention to levy a general rate of three sixteenths of a penny in the pound on the capital value to produce £29,067 and a special rate to produce £8,505. A special meeting to levy the rate will be held on May 19. The total rate would be a fraction less than a farthing. The chairman, the Rev. J. K. Archer said it might be found before May 19 that it will not be necessary to levy a special rate.—>(P.A.) €< l am afraid that when the Railways Board does put other forms of transport out of existence it will mean that freights will go up considerably,” said Mr. H. Morrison (Wairarapa) at yesterday’s meeting of the Dominion executive of the Farmers’ Union in Wellington. He considered it was unfair that the Railways Board should have the right to object to certain lines of road transport as being uneconomic, while the other interests could not make the same objection to railway undertakings. The prizes given by His Excellency the Governor-General for high quality in wheat exhibited at the Christchurch Show, in November, were last year limited to wheats grown in Canterbury. A considerable number of enquiries from people growing wheat in other provinces have been received as to the conditions of the competitions, and His Excellency has therefore agreed to a modification of the conditions of entry so as to allow wheats grown in any part of New Zealand to compete. It is at this time of year that samples of wheat are most easily secured, and full particulars of the competition may be obtained from the Secretary, A. & P. Association, Christchurch. a Masterton Rotarians had as their guest at their weekly luncheon yesterday the foundation president of their club, Brigadier-General Hart, Administrator of Samoa. .Many old, Rotarians were also present. The president, Mr. E. 11. Hodder, was in the chair. On rising to address members, General Hart was accorded a particularly warm welcome. He spoke in a most interesting way of Samoa, its {people and their customs, but asked that his pleasantly informal address should not be reported. He was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. Visitors present at the luncheon were Messrs V. E. Donald, H. Pither, H. P. Hugo, J. Ninnes, B. Page, R. Lee, T. A. Russell, E. H. Doherty and A. Clemas. Dr. Murray Scott was admitted as a member of the club.

The Mayor, Mr. D. G. Sullivan, M.P., who returned to Christchurch yesterday morning, states that in Wellington. as president of the Municipal Association. he discussed with Treasury officials the question of calling a conference of local bodies with loans domiciled overseas, with a view to considering the possibility of a block conversion scheme. He found no opposition to the idea of a conference, but the expert viewpoint was that the prospects of effecting a block conversion were not bright, the principal difficulty being the attitude of the London. Stock Exchange. Further consideration is to be given to the subject.— (P.A.)