LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 4 May 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Masterton County Council issued three building permits during April of a total value of £771. The Masterton Borough Council issued 10 drivers’ licences in April, bringing the total for the year to 1881. The Masterton County Council issued 15 licences, making its total 1162. The vital statistics registered in Masterton for April are as follow, the figures for the corresponding month last year being shown in parentheses: —Births, 19 (14); deaths, 16 (4); marriages, 12 (13). Members of the Wairarapa Returned Soldiers’ Association are reminded of the annual meeting to be held in the Anzac Club rooms, Perry Street, Masterton on Wednesday evening at 7.30 o’clock.

The latest figures in the Queen Carnival, which is being conducted in aid of the Wairarapa A. and P. Society’s funds, are as follow:—Miss Daphne McLeod (Martinborough), 4788; Miss Rona Jury (Carterton - Greytown), 4708; Miss Maitreen Nix (Featherston), 4268.

The open tournament, which was to have been held at the Lansdowne links this week by lady members of the Masterton Golf Club, has been postponed until May 19, 20 arid 21. The usual weekly competition will be neldjjn Thursday,

" Mr. F. C. Cotter, Te Wharau, reports that 2.55 inches of rain fell in that district in April. Rain fell on 18 days and the maximum fall was .80) inch on April 25. The rainfall for the four months ending April 30 was 25L82 inches and the rainfall for the same period last year was 13.34 inches. The rainfall at Te Wharau in April 1935 was 6.28 inches

On account of the boisterous weather on Saturday the Wairarapa Basketball Association postponed the mat l ehes set down for that day. The games arranged for next Saturday will be played aecqrdjng. to the draw and those postpohra'’' ISSt Saturday will probably be decided at the end of the round. '

Union airways kept the timetable with delays during the storm on Saturday, states a Christchurch Press Association telegram! An aeroplane from the North Island meeting with very bad weather on Saturday morning returned to Blenheim, landed there and after staying there half an hour came on to Christchurch, arriving 45 minutes late. A northward aeroplane from Dunedin did the flight of 203 miles in 64 minutes and went on to Palmerston North. Yesterday the service was running normally.- ■ Cyril D. Henderson, the youth who was found on a Taumarunui doctor’s doorstep in the early hours of Thursday morning unconscious and severely injured about the /head, is still in hospital but his condition is now satisfactory. A large pool of blood was found at a street intersection about 150 yards from the doctor’s premises, and other patches of blood were found further along the street, indicating that the youtln- suffered extensive bleeding. It is now stated that another young man called on another doctor in the early hours of the same morning and received treatment for two wounds in the back, which appeared to have been inflicted with a knife. —'(PA.) Two love birds lost.

The W.F.C.A. Provision department insert a number of special values in the wanted column.

J. Kerslake and - Co. insert .a preliminary notice of a dispoosal sale by public auction dt Mrs D. A. Stewart’s famous flock of poultry. The flock has been established 15 years and bred from Mumby's and Ledger strains, are heavy producers apd consistent prize : winners. Any one requiring reliable, birds can attend this sale with every: confidence. The auctioneers are prepar-‘ ed to arrange to execute commissions on buyer’s behalf. For particulars see Page 8 of this issue.