LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 21 October 1937, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Legislative Council yesterday passed the second reading of the Alsatian Dog Bill and adjourned till November 2.—‘(P.A.) The members of the Wairarapa High School Old Girls’ Association held a social evening at the home of Miss Lily Wells on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance and everyone was well entertained with pianoforte and violin items and songs. An amusing one-act play entitled “The Empty Chair” was read and a competition was enjoyed. An excellent supper was served by the committee. About 11 o’clock on Tuesday night a car returning to Dunedin from a boxing match at Oamaru crashed into the cattle stops and rebounded into a telegraph pole at the railway crossing near Maheno. The driver, Philip Ruston, and a passenger, T. Gages, both of Dunedin, were seriously hurt. They were admitted to the Oamaru Hospital. Another passenger, John M. Richmond, Dunedin, had a miraculous escape from injury. The car was completely wrecked.—-(P.A.)

A letter was received from the honorary secretary of the Women’s National Welfare League at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board offering to donate two deck chairs for use in the new nurses’ home. Mrs S. Fletcher said that the League decided ( to do this so that the sun porch would be made attractive to help to keep nurses happy and would perhaps lead to other institutions making similar donations. The League was thanked for its gift. A reply that the matter had not been considered by the Government was given by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) in the House of Representatives yesterday afternoon to Mr. H. S. S. Kyle (National, Riccarton) who asked when the decision of the Government regarding the taking over of the trading banks would be made public, and whether the Prime Minister would give the trading .banks sufficient time to enable them to make representations to the Government as regarded the winding up of their New Zealand business. A meeting of shareholders of the Wairarapa Terminating Building Society was held at Carterton last night to dispose of an appropriation of £6OO by ballot in the No. 2 group. Mr. J. A. B. Lawrence was nominated to draw the lucky marble, and after one number had been drawn upon which a loan was already held, No. 564, which was one of the font’ shares held by Mr Lawrence, was drawn. It is a rather unusual occurrence for a to draw his own marble. At a later meeting of directors it was decided to hold an appropriation by sale on December 1.

A reminder is given of the concert to be presented by the pupils of the St. Matthew’s Collegiate School for Girls in the Opera House to-night. A well-varied programme has been arranged and patrons are promised an excellent evening’s entertainment. Popular prices are being charged and seats may be reserved free of charge at the Arts and Crafts. ?

The opinion that workers in a hospital laundry should be exempted from the provisions of an award governing laundries worked for profit, was expressed by the chairman, Mr. H. H. Mawley, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board. “I notice,” he said, “that Scots College was recently exempted from the provisions of the laundry award as it was an institution not trading for profit: I think we should make every effort to obtain exemption when the occasion arises. We certainly are not trading for profit.” Dr. G. S. Sharp: “We are trading at a loss.” Godfrey Haise, aged 46, described as a company manager, appeared in the Magistrate’s Cpurt at Palmerston North charged that, on or about July 14, 1936, he stole £lOO, the property of Arthur Shelton. Detective-Sergeant Meiklejohn stated that many thousands of pounds were involved. He asked for a remand until Friday, when charges totalling £2500 would be preferred. Mr. M. H. Oram, appearing for the accused, denied that many thousands of pounds were involved. The remand was granted. Bail was allowed in the sum of £lOO in his own recognisance with a surety of a similar amount.—(P.A.) The question of the erection of safety barriers at schools to prevent children rushing out on to the main roads, and thereby run grave risk of being knocked over by fast-moving traffic, was discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Education Board. The need for some such barriers, especially in country schools, was emphasised by several members. It was pointed out that it was not a fair thing to ask school committees to pay for such barriers out of their meagre funds, and it was decided to ask the Department if it would pay for them--(P.A.)

Interviewed yesterday on the proposed amendments to the Land and Income Tax Act, Mr. A. P. O’Shea, Dominion Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, said a great amount of work would be saved the Government’s special committee for revising the land and income taxes if it made use of the report of the Sim Taxation Commission. The recommendations of that commission had the support of the Farmers’ Union. The statement which the Union had recently put forward on land and income taxation was much in line with the commission,’s recommendations. There was no question, Mr. O’Shea said, that the imposition of the land tax was making it difficult for partnerships, which in rough country, particularly in the North Island, were necessary for the economic, working of farms. Both the land tax and the company income tax should be abolished.—(P.A.) Orion range for sale. Birch posts for sale. Girl for shop wanted. Heading dog for sale. Milk round advertised for sale. Two shops in main .street, Pahiatua, available for lease. The opening dance of the Mauriceville Tennis Club will be held next Saturday.

Messrs C. O. Ross and Co., land agents, advertise particulars of 343 acres, near Masterton, for sale.