LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Advice has been received by the Southland Boiing Association that the New Zealand Boxing Council has alloted the annual Australasian championships to Invercargill this year. The tentative dates are October 8 and 9. — (PA.) The St. Vincent de Paul Society held a very successful "Shop Day on Friday in aid of distress cases.. The proceeds amounted to £24. The society wish to sincerely thank all those who assisted.

The following donations to the Babies’ Milk Fund are acknowledged with thanks by the secretary, Mr. J. V. Dolan: P. J. Donald, ss; Mrs. R. Sutherland, 2s 6d; Post Office boxes, 4s 6d. Thanks are expressed to Mr. Syd. Smith for the painting of several signs.

J. Bush, a forward in the Featherston senior Rugby team, was admitted to hospital on Saturday afternoon suffering from concussion sustained when he went down to a forward rush in the Carterton-Featherston match. His condition is reported to be not serious.

The Masterton Savage Club’s opening korero of the season, held on Saturday night, was very largely attended by both members and visitors and proved a most qpjoyable occasion. The attendance of members and the enthusiasm displayed augur well for the success of the season. An excellent and much-appreciated programme of musical and other items was rendered, a feature of which was a sketch by the newly-formed Savage Dramatic Club under the capable leadership of Savage C. C. Marsack,

Cyril Bray, aged about 30, was gassed at the Feilding Gasworks on Saturday. His companion, James Lever, had a very narrow escape from a similar fate. Both men. were employed by Rabbidge and Co., Wellington, gaswerks engineers, and were making repairs at the Feilding works. They had opened the big valve from the gas holder and while Bray was leaning ovdr the valve, with Lever close by, they were overcome. They were alone in the room at the time and were later discovered by an employee named Eichler. Bray was then dead. Eichler pulled Lever outside and applied resuscitation methods with success. A doctor sent Lever to hospital. Mr. Bray resided at Wellington. He was not married.—(P.A.) At a meeting of representatives of the Masterton and Wairarapa A. and P. associations, it was decided to hold a smoke concert at the Tea Pavilion on the Carterton Showgrounds on Thursday, May 17, at 8 p.m. when the ehairman (Mr. David Jones) and other members of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board will be present and Mr. Jones will formally present the shield won by the Wairarapa district for the best' District Lamb Exhibit in the whole of the North Island—at both 1932 and 1933 competitions . It was felt that the fact that the Wairarapa district had won this competition for two years in succession was a very important event in the history of the Wairarapa and should be suitably celebrated. The members of Parliament for the Pahiatua, Masterton, and Wairarapa Districts will’be invited to attend together with the mayors of Pahiatua, Eketahuna, Masterton, Carterton, Greytown, Featherston and Martinborough. Farmers and business men throughout the district will it is hoped recognise the importance of the function by attending in strong force.