LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 22 March 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A practice for all grades of the Red Star Football Club will be held at Memorial Park on Saturday, March 23 , 2 p.m. All players and intending players are asked to attend. Weather permitting, the Masterton Municipal Band will play a programme of selected items at an after-church concert in the Park on Sunday evening, commencing at 8.15 o’clock. The players of the various grades of the Red Star Football Club have elected the following coaches:—Senior, Mr. J. Wing; junior, Mr. J. Dwyer; third Mr. J Paltridge; fourth grade, held over.

A shop day in aid of the Fernridge School funds will be held to-morrow in Beoullars’ Buildings, Queen Street. The sale will start at 8.30 a.m. and a wide variety of country produce, home-made cakes, sweets, jam and fruit will be available. A weight-judging competition will also be held.

Efforts to arrange a merger of interests between the contending parties for a trunk air service licence are now being made as the result of yesterday’s sitting of the Transport Co-ordination Board. At the afternoon sitting Squad-ron-Leader Isitt read reports from the directors of air and meteorological services dealing with the possibility of the regular operation of the route. It would be impossible to get into or out Sf Bongotai, he said, on at least ten per cent, of the days owing to visibility. An alternative aerodrome within a radius of thirty or forty miles of Wellington was essential. The board will sit again to-day.—(P.A.)