LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 1 July 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The social committee of the Masterton Amateur Swimming Club have arrangements well <in hand for their second dance to be held on July 18. No effort is being spared to make the dance even more enjoyable and successful than the last one.

A tournament is to be held to-night by the Greytown Boxing Club. Twelve amateur bouts will be staged between Masterton, Carterton, Featherston and Greytown competitors and an added attraction will be a six-round exhibition contest between H. Iraeves and A. Cadwallader.

Among the winners of £5 prizes in “Mickey's Fortune” Art Union were the following:—“Lucky Last,” Masterton; “The Fairies” Featherston; * Mrs. G. Pike, 20 Chapel Street, Masterton; “Here's to August,” “Fifty-fifty,” Greytown; E. McEachen, 40 South Road, Masterton; A. M. Price, Masterton; “Wanted,” Masterton; “Hard Task Ahead,” 1 Masterton.

The Wellington Education Board has made the following appointments:— Miss R. E. Edge, of the relieving staff, Waingawa, as sole teacher. Mr. F. Dyer, sole teacher, Te Wharau, to assistant, Clyde Quay. Miss C. G. Smith, assistant, Karori West, to assistant, Greytown. Miss M. ,P. Miles, sole teacher, Rongokokako, to assistant, Newtown. Mrs. C. R. McFarland has been appointed sole teacher at Ihuraua. An extraordinary meeting of the suppliers of the Featherston Dairy Co., was held in the Town Hall, Featherston, on Friday, to decide on the system of payment for milk received for cheese-making. The following motion, moved by Mr. T, Benton, was carried by 90 votes to 60: “That the system of payment on the butterfat basis be adopted as the payment on the casein system proved unsatisfactory.'' Some concern was expressed at a meeting of the Carterton Borough Council last night in regard to the effect of the new labour legislation on the council’s gas yrorks, especially the introduction of the forty-hour week. The Deputy-Mayor, Mr. D. L. Taverner, stated that a delegation had been appointed to approach the Government, requesting it to grant small gas works partial exemption and gas managers total exemption from the forty-hour week proposal. At a meeting of the Carterton Borough Council last night a letter from the Masterton County Council regarding heavy traffic fees was “received.” The Mayor and Deputy Mayor were appointed a committee, with power to act, relative to matters connected with the Wellington Ceptenary. It was decided that plumbers must not lead down-water pipes into the sewers, and that owners of unregistered dogs would be prosecuted without further notice. The Works Committee was authorised to proceed with the concreting of the baths and the Clerk to arrange a cleanup week as soon as possible.

The Presbyterian Church at Niagara, about 50 miles east of Invercargill looks as if it has been struck by a tornado. Thirty-two windows are broken, 28 at the side and four in front. It is not known, who broke the windows but there is no mistaking what they were broken . with. A heap of metal had been placed in the grounds of the church in preparation for the formation of a footpath from the road to the church door. Instead of a working bee of church members performing a useful service soma irresponsible people used the stones to shatter the windows.—<(P.A.) Fatally injured when he was thrown from a bolting horse, Darrell Leslie, aged about 40, a stable hand employed by L. G. Paul, Wanganui East, died in hospital last night. The horse from which Leslie was thrown slipped on an asphalt road below the Railway Bridge, after bolting about a mile. The deceased had been in Mr. Paul's employ for the past twelve years and prior to that had been in several leading stables in the Dominion, having been with Messrs J. H. Jefferd, J. Prosser, T. Lloyd and James Bull at, different ( times. He was a popular figure on tne Wanganui tracks, where he was popularly known by the nickname of “Nap.”—‘(P.A.) ■ Difficulties in the way of applying the 40 hour week prescribed in the Factories Amendment Act to the baking and pastrycook industry in New Zealand were stressed by the employers when asking for an extension of hours to 44, and the right to work ten hours in any one day, in the Arbitration Court in Wellington yesterday. The employers claimed that speeding up the process of breadmaking to conform with the restriction of hours would seriously affect the quality of the loaf, with a resultant falling off in the consumption of wheat products. The app*Hcation whs opposed by a representative of the workers, who said the employers had consistently opposed every reform proposed. The Court reserved its decision.—(P.A.) Shacklock H.P. range for sale. Young lady seeks housework position. Furnished flat wanted by young lady. r Two hundred gallon, iron tanks, for sale. A dance will bq held in the Langdale Hall next Saturday at 8 p.m.