LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 September 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bicycles in Demand. One local cycle store reported yesterday, having sold eight ladies bicycles. In every case the sale was a cash one.

Day of Prayer. A call to all within the diocese to observe Sunday next as a day ol solemn supplication to Almighty God was issued by the Vicar-General of the Diocese of Wellington, the Ven.-Arch-deacon Bullock, yesterday. Prayers will be offered for victory and for the establishment of true peace on earth.

Ample Supplies of Sugar. A statement that there were ample supplies of sugar available in New Zealand was made by the Sugar Controller, Mr B. L. Dallard, in an interview last evening. He said the main reason for instituting control at this juncture was to ensure stability of price and supply. Infectious Diseases.

For the week ended yesterday, 19 cases of infectious disease and three deaths, from pulmonary tuberculosis, were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department from the central Wellington district. The cases were as follows: —Pulmonary tuberculosis (6), Diphtheria (5), pneumonic influenza (3), cerebro-spinal meningitis (2), eresipelas (2), and scarlet fever (1). Price of Beer. The report submitted to him by the Price Investigation Tribunal after its investigation into the increase in the price of beer was released yesterday by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan. The tribunal fixed the price of “handles” of beer at 6d for 12 ounces in each of the four main centres, and increased the price of quart bottles and square “riggers” by Id. Milk Vendors Fined.

Following representations by school authorities in Napier in recent months to have the question of the employment of boys before school in the morning investigated, a raid on milk vendors was carried out on July 26. There was a sequel today when four milkmen were charged in the Magistrates’ Court, Napier, with employing boys under the age of 16 before 7 a.m. Fines of 10s each and costs were inflicted. “Marathon” Football.

Patrons of Association football matches in Cook’s Gardens, Wanganui, were provided with an exceptionally long match recently. Technical College A and Athletic were even on scores when the final whistle went, and the game went on for a further 20 minutes. Again each side had scored a goal, so the “marathon” went on for another 15 minutes before victory went to the Technical College team. It is many years since teams haye been required to play for 35 minutes’ extra time in Wanganui matches. Exhibition Preparations.

The Government has. decided that organisations in existence for the preparation of New Zealand’s centennial celebrations shall continue to function as if there had been no declaration of war. The Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, said last evening, that with the announcement of the outbreak of war many questions had reached the Government asking whether, under the circumstances, the centennial organisations throughout New Zealand should continue to function, particularly in view of the published decision that the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company would carry on with the exhibition. Illegal Use of Current.

The practice of using electric heating plugs as lighting points may involve the user in a charge of theft of current or fraud, it was stated at a meeting of the Poverty Bay Electric Power Board. Where the supply of current is on the alternative rate, based on total consumption, the practice does not have the effect of lowering the payment due to the board. Where current is sold for lighting and heating, and charged for separately, the use of heating current for lighting purposes constitutes an offence, there being -a substantial difference in the cost of current sold for lighting or heating.

Broadcasting Services. An official statement was issued last evening that it had been decided that broadcasting services should be carried on as normally as possible, and that the main national and commercial broadcasting stations, now that the anxious period of indecision was over, should resume, as far as possible, their regular schedules. They would therefore be on the air from now till further notice from 6 a.m. till 12 midnight. Should any important broadcasts be received from Daventry during the night, they would be recorded by 2YA and broadcast at 6 a.m. from, all stations, national and commercial, and if necessary they would be repeated later. Street Lights at Sumner.

A new system of controlling the street lights in Sumner is now in operation. Two light sensitive switches have been installed and their action is based on a photo-chemical reaction long known to chemists. This reaction is used as a basis for this switch. A small glass bulb with two electrodes sealed into it is partly filled with a solution of calcium chloride and hydrochloric acid. If the bulb is in darkness the two gases do not combine and a pressure is built up and closes the circuit, but when the light is of a certain intensity the gases will recombine, thereby reducing the pressure and opening the circuit. Pilots for Motorists. Formal approval of a proposal that pilots be provided for motorists visiting Wellington during the exhibition was given b ythe executive of the Automobile Association (Wellington) last night. The suggestion was contained in a letter from the Wairarapa that chauffeurs be provided to drive visiting motorists’ cars through the city. The secretary, Mr W. A. Sutherland, said that such services were provided in Sydney, Melbourne and London. If approval were given investigations could be made. The chairman, Mr E. A. Batt, said that before the association committed itself it should wait and see what the atmosphere would be like at the time of the exhibition. There might not be the crowds that had been expected.