LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7739, 22 June 1916, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Saturday will be “Red Cross Day” at the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee’s shop. Three hundred and sixty public school teachers have joined the Expeditionary Forces. Ten Waipawa County Council road and bridge contracts are advertised in this issue. In the Legislative Council yesterday an Imprest Supply for £951,000 was passed through all stages. The Veil. Archdeacon Ruddock, of Napier, will preach at the 11 o’clock morning service at St. Peter’s next Sunday. In reply to a question in the House, the Government stated that they did not consider it necessary to deal with the suggested curtailment of racing.

The treasurer of the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee has received a donation of £1 from Mr R. Houston for the Sailors’ Widows’ Fund.

Mr J. Scarrott, of Tikokino, has been appointed inspector to the Hawke’s Bay Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Notification is advertised of the dissolution of partnership of Messrs C. McLeod, W. A. Roberts, and T. Ropata.

Members of the Waipawa Golf Club will on Saturday resume the whirligig competition, and a commencement will be made with the mixed competition.’ In view of the high prices ruling for benzine, the Wairarapa Automobile Association is considering the practicability of importing the article in 100-ton lots, and distributing it among members. The public farewell to the recruits from this district leaving for camp on Monday will take place in the Municipal Theatre to-morrow evening, and a large attendance is looked for by the Ladies’ Patriotic Committee. As the result of a recent breeze in the Hastings Borough . Council two councillors resigned, and an election to fill the vacancies took place yesterday, Messrs F. Cook and G. S. Clapham being returned by good majorities.

Recently the .headmaster ‘of the Napier West School, Mr E. V. Hudson, organised a fete to raise funds for the improvement of the school grounds. It proved a huge success, and netted over £2OO a result beyond the expectations of the most sanguine.

The annual football matches between the first and second teams of Te Ante and Wanganui Colleges were played at Palmerston North yesterday, providing two keenly contested games. Te Aute won the senior match and Wanganui the junior.

At the Palmerston North Winter Show Mr J. Cushing, Clive, won first in the champion class for collection of of dessert apples, Mr F. Peters, Waifirsts and five seconds, and Mr J. classes Mr F. Peters secured three firsts and fives econds, and Mr J. Cushing one first.

There was a fair attendance at the weekly parade of the National Reserve on Tuesday night. In the absence of the instructor, Dr. Deck put the members through the physical course, and followed it up with an interesting talk on the treatment of burns mid the resuscitation of life in the apparently drowned. Waipukurau patriotic funds acknowledgments:—Navy Fund: Mrs F. W. Gore £5, St. Andrew’s Bible Class 10s, A. Buchan £5, Mrs Heatley £1 Is, H. R. French £l, W. Whittaker £l. Wounded Soldiers’ Fund: Sale of flag at Mount Vernon garden fete .€5 Is, (). M. Monekton £25 Is fid. Belgian Relief: D. McLeod £lO. A deputation from those in the Discharged Soldiers’ Settlement at Takapau waited on the Commissioner of Crown Lands (Mr W. F. Marsh) yesterday, requesting advances to them for the erection of dwellings and fences, and also for stocking their properties. The Government has now appointed a resident Crown Lands Ranger at Takapau. Polce constables on night duty come across many strange “finds” during their peregrinations, but a discovery made in the Avenue, Wanganui, would have afforded excellent material for a guessing competition. While doing his beat in the lower part of the Avenue a constable found a brown paper parcel reposing peacefully on the doorstep of a shop. Investigation revealed a glass dish containing the larger part of a fair-sized trifle! It would be interesting to know whence it came and whither wandering. A girl of 16 years, named Ada Orsley, stowed away on board the 11.M.5. Morea at Adelaide last week, as she wanted to join her father and brother, both of whom are in France, fighting. Bhc boarded the Morea at night by squeezing her frail body through a porthole, and found herself in an empty cabin, the door of which she locked. She only had the clothes she stood up in and a rain cloak. Her commissariat consisted of some biscuits, .apples and cheese, which she considered would be sufficient for the voyage. After the first day the girl became hungry, left her cabin and got food in some way or other. Her presence was not discovered until Fremantle was reached, when she tried to get ashore without a pass.