LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 19 July 1934, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At lasi night’s meeting of the Masterton Beautifying Society a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. F. Norris, who had collected about £lB as donations from the business people of Masterton to the Allan Memorial Fund.

A dance will be held by the Wairarapa High School pupils in the Masonic Hall to-morrow night to entertain visiting football and basketball teams from Napier and Wellington. All old pupils are invited to attend and others may do so by invitation. "Nationalism and the League’’ will be the subject of an address to be given this evening in St. Matthew’s Parish Hall by Dr. C. Mitchell. The meeting has been arranged by the Masterton Branch of the League of Nations Union and an invitation is extended to all interested to attend.

A slight outbreak of diptheria has occurred at the South Brighton School (Canterbury). A member of the staff was first affected and was isolated. The Department of Health found four carriers among the pupils, one of whom has now developed symptoms. The school remains open in the meantime.— (P.A.) All sheep farmers interested are invited to attend a meeting of Farmers’ Union and A. and P. delegates to be held in the P. and A. Rooms, Carterton, on Saturday next, at noon, to elect delegates to the Meat Board Electoral Committee. A discussion of "matters of interest to meat producers’’ also figures on the agenda. After some discussion the Wellington Education Board yesterday decided that it regretted that it was unable to grant the request of headmasters to make attendance of teachers at their schools on Anzac Day optional. Colonel T. W. MacDonald said he thought there was a good deal in the headmasters’ request. The teachers were the only body of people in New Zealand who had to go on Anzac Day as a matter of duty. A voice: "It ought to be a labour of love.’’ Colonel MacDonald: “We should make it a labour of love rather than a labour of duty.’’ -(P.A.)