LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 31 May 1935, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

“The Age’’ will not be published on Monday next, the King’s Birthday. Advertisers please note. Attention was drawn by the chairman of the Wairarapa Power Board, Mr. A. Campbell Pearce, at the annual meeting yesterday to the fact that the Kourarau plant supplied one-fifth of the units used in the Wairarapa. The following are the Wairarapa Basketball fixtures and referees for tomorrow:—At 2 p.m.: W.H.S. Old Girls I v. Stars n, referee, Miss J. Rayne. At 3 p.m.: Stars HI v. Stars I, referee, Miss J. Rayne; Hospital v. lona I, referee, Miss B. Brown. At 2 p.m. at Carterton: St, Andrew’s v. lona H, referee, Mrs. Churehouse.

The fact that the Wairarapa Electric Power Board had made a contribution of upwards of £5O towards the King’s Jubilee celebrations in various Wairarapa towns was mentioned at yesterday’s meeting of the board. In Masterton it was stated that the board had put up and taken down without cost thirty strings of coloured lights, at a cost of £7 10s.

Members of the St. John Ambulance (Nursing Division) held practices in bandaging at last night’s meeting in the Lecture Room, Municipal Building. Arrangements were made for the attendance of members at to-morrow’s hockey games and also at the hockey tournament to be held at the Lansdowne grounds on Monday (King’s Birthday.) Thirty-three members of the crew of the Hurunui appeared in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with continued and wilful neglect of duty. During rough weather in the Atlantic the men’s quarters were flooded and clothing and effects Were damaged. The men demanded £lO apiece compensation, otherwise they declined to take the ship to sea. The company, said counsel, had assured them that individual claims would receive sympathetic hearing when the ship reached. England. The English Union advised the men to return to work but they disregarded the advice For the defence it was stated that the men regarded the ship as unseaworthy. The Magistrate convicted them and adjourned the Court till this morning to give them a further opportunity of coming to an agreement with the company.—(P.A.) Strong objections were raised by Mr. S. Dalgleish at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board to the policy of the board regarding the amount on fixed-deposit. He wanted to know why a sum of about £lO,OOO was lying in the bank and was not invested in Government bonds. He alleged that it had cost the board £5OO. The Secretary-Manager, Mr. G. Brown, stated that it was earning three per cent. Mr. Dalgleish urged that the board should have invested in the Mortgage Corporation at 4} per cent. It was pointed out that Mr. Brown had been instructed to invest in Government bonds -only. Mr. Dalgleish criticised the action of the Finance Committee in fixing a figure at which the bonds were to be obtained? He considered it most unbusinesslike. At a later stage of the meeting notice of motion was given to rescind a previous motion regarding investment in Government bonds and to place all available money on deposit as opportunity offered.

Another case in which £5O notes had I been mistaken for 10s notes occurred | in Wellington recently. Asked to change a £1 note, a business woman inadvertently gave away two £5O notes instead of two 10s notes. So far the notes have not been recovered.—(P.A.) Carterton has decided to run a Queen Carnival from August 14 to November 28. Mr. R. W. Roydhouse has been appointed chairman and Mr. Gibb Johnston secretary of the committee. There will be three queens, one for the R.S.A., one for the Band and one for the country districts. The queens are to be nominated by Thursday next The carnival is being held to raise funds for the Carterton branch of the R.O.A. and the Carterton Band. A complete agreement was reached between the Wellington newspaper proprietors and the Wellington Journalists’ Union in the Conciliation Council yesterday. In respect of wages, a five per cent, increase was granted in a majority of cases to reporters and sub-editors, salaries being in line with the rates awarded in the recent agreement between the Auckland proprietors and journalists. The term of the new awajd is for one year and it was made retrospective to April I.—(P.A.) A father and son were drowned when their motor ear crashed through the railings of a bridge over the Mangatawhiri stream on the Great South Road, about a mile north of Mercer, late yesterday afternoon. The car somersaulted into water twelve feet below, landing upside down. The vi» tims were Peter Keay, aged 64, a married farmer of Taipuha, Paparoa, North Auckland and Norman William Keay, aged 16. Another son, Frank Peter Keay, aged 24, extricated himself from the submerged vehicle and was saved.—((P.A.) Forty-eight teams entered the competition for the Sydney Tisdall Cup postal match, shot under the auspices of the New Zealand Miniature Rifle Association, states a Wellington Press Association telegram. There was keen competition, twenty-one possibles being registered. The conditions were teams of five, ten shots each. Christchurch Working Men’s Club No. 2, by scoring 496 out of a possible 500, won from Pleasant Point 493, and West End, Timaru, 493, with Featherston, Wellington South No: 1 and Brooklyn each 492. At yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board Mr. A. Campbell Pearce was unanimously reelected chairman for the ensuing twelve months, there being no other nominations. Expressing his thanks for the confidence placed in him, Mr. Pearce said the last twelve months had been an easy term, due undoubtedly to the help the members of the board had given and also to the fact that no serious problems had presented themselves. This twelve months might not be the same, however, in view of the cleaning of the dam and the new line coming from Wellington. He felt sure that the board would carry out its duties satisfactorily. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Methodist Church Women’s Missionary Auxiliary was held yesterday afternoon, Mrs. G. F. Stockwell presiding over a large attendance. Devotional exercises were led by the Rev. G. F. Stockwell. After routine business had been transacted letters were read from Mrs. Duke, president of the Women’s Missionary Union of New Zealand, and Sister Lina Jones, Solomon Islands. The annual report of the Kurahuna Maori Girls’ School was received anl also the quarterly report from Sister Ivy Jones, Deaconess to the Maori girls in the city of Auckland. The next meeting will be held at Kuripuni. Afternoon tea was provided by the hostesses, Misses Daken (J,2), who were accorded a vote of thanks.

A start was made in the Magistrate’s Court at Wellington yesterday with the hearing of the criminal prosecution brought by the Commissioner of Police (Mr. W. G. Wohlmann) alleging defamatory libel against Albert Edward Robinson, of Auckland, editor of “Farming First,” organ of the Auckland Provincial Farmers’ Union. Leave to prosecute was granted Mr. Wohlmann last month, his application arising from an article relating to a police raid at Te Aroha which appeared in “Farming First” of March 15 last. There were four charges, to all of which Robinson pleaded not guilty. Lengthy evidence is being heard, the Witnesses including the Hon. C. E. Macmillan (Minister of Agriculture) and the Hon. J. G. Cobbe (Minister of Justice). The case will be resumed this morning.

Capable boy for farm wanted. Advertiser wants to rent 3 to 5-room-ed house.

Shop situated centre High Street, Carterton, advertised 1 to let.

Qrey’s Cash and Carry butchery, advertises week-end specials in choice meats.

Mr. H. J. Wakeman, Cash Grocer, Pine Street, advertises Friday and Saturday specials in the Wanted column.

Messrs Murray, Roberts and Co., Ltd. Masterton, advertise particulars of Hawke’s Bay property for sale consisting of 792 acres L.I.P. A dance will be held in the Municipal Hall on Monday night at 8 o’clock. The music will be supplied by the Blue River Dance Band.

To-day, The W.F.C.A. are making a feature of a special purchase of men’s tweed coats, which are really worth while investigating. See the scatters on page 1 of to-day's issue.