LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 5 July 1937, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Returned Service men are reminded of the annual golf tournament which will be held on the Riverside Links to-morrow, commencing at 9.30 a.m. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, acknowledges receipt of £2/2/- from the Masterton Beautifying Society, as a contribution to the King George V Memorial Fund.

Apart from the railways, which are improving, the flooded areas north of Auckland, are back to normal, and road access is available to all centres except Russell. In view of the rain and flood conditions, it has been decided, to extend the Winter Exhibition, over three days this week.—(P.A.) A public meeting will be held in the Parish Hall, Masterton, on Wednesday, 7th July, at 7.30 p.m. for the purpose of f orming a branch of the New Zealand Red Cross Society. Addresses will be given by the President, Mrs T. H. Lowry, O.B.E.,'and Dr. Alexander Gillies, Dominion chairman of the Society. Mr. Herbert Ronald Hickson, t 23, the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Hickson, of Bannister Street, had. the misfortune to fall a distance of about 30 feet on Friday afternoon, while working on a new building at the Masterton Hospital. He was fortunate enough to escape with a fractured ankle and is now a patient in Masterton Hospital. The Assembly Hall at St. Matthew’s Collegiate School presented a gay and happy scene on Saturday afternoon when nearly 100 children attended a 'delightful fancy dress party, organised by the Parents’ Association of the school. The gathering was well organised and the children spent a thoroughly bright and enjoyable time. The Ashburton County Council, which recently .placed on the market a £BlOO drainage loan at 3| per cent, for 35 years, has received no inquiry. It has been Compelled to seek authority for the issue for a ten-year term. Th| Power Board mfet a similar position with £12,000,000 security behind it.— (P.A.)

The death has occurred of Mrs Mary Lonergan, aged 99, states a Hastings Press Association telegram. She was borji and married in County Clare, Ireland, and arrived in New Zealand on the. ship Hudson ip 1873. Her home in Napier in the early pioneering days was well known. She leaves a family of five married daughters and two sons. Her husband predeceased her about twenty-five years ago.

The Masterton Collie Club will hold its annual dance in the Masonic Hall on Thursday, July 29. The Blue River Dance Band has been engaged and both modern and old time music will be provided. It ’is anticipated that the dance will be as popular and successful as those held by the club in the past. Tickets may be obtained from membersof the committee or the see.retary of the club, Mr. C. J. McDonald, Rangitumau.

The Masterton Corps of the ‘ Salvation Army celebrated its fifty-third anniversary at the week-end. On Saturday night a most successful reunion and thanksgiving service was held, there being a large attendance. Yesterday special meetings were held ifi the afternoon and evening. The anniversary tea will be- held this evening at 6 o’clock pnd will be followed by a musical programme at 8 p.m. Old and new friends will be welcomed at the gatherings.

The opinion that cruciferous crops, of which there are 600,000 acres in New Zealand/ could not now grown were it not for the work of the white butterfly parasites, was> expressed by Mr. J. Muggetidge, entomologist at the Plant Research Bureau, Palmerston North, in reviewing activities since the introduction of the parasite a few years ago. The monetary value of the parasite could not be estimated, Mr. i Muggeridge added. The butterfly was better able to survive in wet conditions than the parasite, this being the reason for what appeared to be an increase in the number of butterflies after a wet season, but as soon as dry conditions return destruction by the parasite goes up again.—(P.A.)Trapped by the tide on the beach near Hawera on Saturday, a pack of cubs in charge of Miss Dorothy Clement,. of Hawera, had an unenviable experience. They owe much to the ability of Miss Clement that they were not drowned. The pack was on a tramp on the beach at the foot of a precipitous cliff that runs for miles along the coast when the tide rose unexpectedly high. The Cubs and Miss Clement were forced up against the cliff, which can be climbed in very few places.. They had to travel some distance, continually menaced by the rising water until they scrambled on to the ledge in comparative safety. It was not till late at night that they were able again to descend to the beach and return to town.—-(P.A.) Reputed to be 109 years of age and to have been at Te Ngutuotemanu at the time of the killing of Major von Tempsky, Putaka Waikatere, only daughter of Waikatere, a warrior of the Araukuku sub-tribe, died at Eltham on Thursday. She was buried on Friday at the tribal cemetery at Normanby. Although a member qf the Araukuku sub»tribe of Ketemarae Pa, Normanby, Putaka Waikatere spent the| greater part of her long life with her adopted daughter, Mrs. Nicholas, at Omokoroa, Tauranga. During her last illness she asked that she might return to the Ketemarae Par A large tangi has been in progress isihee her death, and there was a large number of mourners, including Maoris from Tauranga, at the funeral.—(P.A.) A meeting of ladies will be held »at the Tinui Hall on Thursday, under the auspices of the New Zealand National Party, at 2.30 p.m. Mrs Stone, of Wellington, will address the meeting. Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure For Coughs and Colds, never fails.