LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 4 July 1936, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Featherston County Council is to consider declaring milk thistle a noxious weed within the county. The following are the vital statistics registered in Masterton for June, with the corresponding figures for June last year in parentheses:—Births, 19 (23); deaths, 15 (8); marriages, 9 (3). , The Masterton Road Cycling Club will hold a 20-mile race to-day from the Kuripuni Triangle, starting at 2.30 p.m. The handicaps are as follow:— Payne, 9min.; Condon, smin.; Dykes, 5 min.; Harman, Sayers, 3min.; Deegan, Clarke, Eastwood, Osborne, scr. Three inmates of thy Borstal Institution at Invercargill escaped early yesterday afternoon and were still at large late last night. A party of inmates had returned to the institution farm after lunch, and shortly afterwards it was noticed that three were missing. Search parties were immediately organised but met with no success.—(P.A.) Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure First aid for Coughs, Colds, Influenza.

The following registration appears in this week’s Mercantile Gazette: —Redman Hastings Ltd. Regd. as a private co. June 24. Subscribers: Masterton —T. T. Redman 49, R. W. Fraser 1. Objects: To carry on in the town of Hastings the profession or practice of a dental surgeon and incidental.

Hoto Hetaraka, the oldest Maori in the north, died at Te Hapua, North Auckland, yesterday morning. He was present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi and was reported to be 103 years old. He was engaged’ in gum digging up to the time of his death. —■ (P.A.)

The Whangarei Winter Show, which was opened by the Hon. W. Lee Martin on Tuesday is proving a great success. Features of the entertainment on Thursday night and last evening were a haka and poi dances, in which about 400 Maoris from the far north took part.—(P.A.)

Charged with firing a' shotgun “loaded with destructive matter” at Nicholas Walls with intent to do grievous bodily harm, John Miles, farmer, of Fernside, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court at Christchurch yesterday and was remanded to July 4. Bail of £3OO was allowed with one surety of £300.—(P.A.)

There was an attendance of 16 youths at the last monthly meeting of Greytown Young Farmers’ Club. It was resolved that Mr. 8. Freeman be made a life member of the club in recognition of his services during the past year. Mr. J. Yeomans was appointed as delegate to Provincial Council meetings. A market day under the auspices of the Lansdowne Presbyterian Church will be held at the Y.M.C.A. on Friday next, arrangements for which are in the hands of an energetic committee. Gifts for all stalls including the jumble stall will be appreciated and those desiring their goods to be collected 1, are asked to ring phone 1693. The Friendly Societies’ card tournament was continued on Thursday night, with the following results:—Forester® beat Hibernians, 11/10; Oddfellows B beat Oddfellows A, 15/7; Druids beat Waipoua, 12/11. The draw for next week, in the Hibernian Hall, will be: —Oddfellows A v. Foresters; Waipoua v. Hibernians; Druids v. Oddfellows B.

A concert and’ dance is to be held at the Central School on Tuesday next at 7.30 p.m; Well-known local artists are taking part and a dance is to follow. The proceeds will be in aid of the Parents’ Association funds and

those, attending are assured of a good evening’s entertainment. The charge for admission is Is. Particulars are advertised;

A general meeting of the Masterton Branch of the New Zealand Poultry Producers’ Federation was held on Thursday, Mr. N. D. Rutherford, presiding. A report on the recent annual conference of the federation in Wellington was read, and several matters affecting the industry were fully discussed. An increasing branch membership was reported. The first shipment of sheep for Japan from Dunedjn was taken aboard the Sydney Maru yesterday. It consisted of animals collected from Canterbury, Balelutba, and the Taieri, 235 in all. This is the fourth such shipment from New Zealand, the others being from Lyttelton. The forwarding agents stated that orders had been received from the Japanese buyers not to release information to the Press.—(P.A.)

Swept up from Dunedin on the tail of a southerly “buster,” air travellers from Dunedin yesterday morning made the trip to Christchurch at 200 miles an hour. The airline distance is 203 miles and the Union Airways machine Karoro made it in 62 minutes, leaving Dunedin at 8.20 and landing at Christchurch at 9.22. When passengers were delivered at their hotels breakfast was still “on,” though they had all breakfasted at quite a normal hour in the southern city.—(P.A.) The hearing of evidence in the charge against William Richard Pkul, aged 21, of recklessly or negligently driving a motor-cycle, thereby causing the death of Irene Merle Campbell at Awahuri on April 17, was concluded in the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North on Thursday. Paul’s statement to the police, in which he denied being in a hotel after leaving a birthday party on the night of the fatality, was read to the Court. The accused was committed for trial.—(P.A.) The Charlie Chaplin picture “Modern Times” had a very successful first screening at a special late session in the Regent Theatre last night. It was obvious throughout that the picture found high favour with the audience, uproarious laughter demonstrating that the powers of the screen’s most famous comedian have in no way abated. “Modern Times” is to be shown again at the Regent to-day at 11 a.m., 2.15 p.m. and 7.45 p.m.

The Rev. G. F. Stockwell will be the preacher at Wesley Church at both services to-morrow. At morning worship a Communion table and chairs in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. David Donald will be dedicated. The choir will sing the anthem “In the Morning,” and the sacrament of the Lord’s Supper will be administered at the close of the service. At the evening service Miss Evelyn Jones will sing “Consider and Hear Me,” and the choir will render the anthem, “Lord, Teach us to Pray.” The Rev. W. McDonald will preach at Kuripuni both morning and evening and Mr. Goudge will officiate at Solway. The afternoon service at Wangaehu will be conducted by the Rev. G. F. Stockwell. Pakanui has been scratched for both engagements on the first day at the Trentham meeting next week.—(P.A.) Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure i For Children’s Hacking Cough.