LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 March 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Exhibition Attendances. The attendance at the Centennial Exhibition yesterday reached 15,758. making the total 1.995.499. with a daily average of .16,910.

Two Soldiers Arrested. Two soldiers on leave were arrested in Masterton yesterday on charges connected with acts of vandalism in the streets during Easter. The men were handed over to the military authorities to be dealt with. Labour Party Conferences.

A recommendation regarding the venue of annual conferences was made by the New Zealand Labour Party to the incoming national executive at yesterday’s .annual conference in Wellington. It. was recommended that the next annual conference be held in Auckland and thereafter in the main centres in rotation.

Provincial Golf Championship. After three days of perfect weather, one of the most successful tournaments yet held to decide the Wellington provincial golf championship concluded on the Wellington club’s links yesterday afternoon. W. B. Reilly (Hutt) took the title by beating A. T. Clelland (Tui Glen) in the final at the twentieth.

Dance at Opaki. The dance hold at Cooper's Barn. Opaki, on Monday, was largely attended. Under the direction, of Mr .Pat Ward as M.C., the proceedings went with a swing, the music for the dancing being supplied by Jack Barnes’s Orchestra. The winners of the three Monte Carlo competitions were: Miss B. Grose and Mr W. Cooper: Miss S. McLachlan and Mr A. Boasted; Miss M. McNab and Mr S. Searancke.

Military Enrolments. Enlistments at the Masterton Defence Office are again coming in more freely, the 600 mark having been reached this morning. The following is the latest list of recruits: Messrs H. S. W. Welch and F. J . F. Heaven (D Company, First Hawke’s Bay Regiment). L. T. Blackley, J. B. Sewell (C Company. First Hawke’s Bay Regiment), Masterton; L. M. Mason (Greytown); C. R. Porter. C. P. Fitzgerald, and C. 1. Rayner (Carterton). Busy Air Travel Easier.

In spite of a shortage of machines and pilots, a condition brought about by the war, commercial airlines in New Zealand experienced the busiest Easter on record. During the holiday period, extending from last Thursday till yesterday, four aircraft made no fewer than 105 crossings of Cook Strait and carried 850 passengers to and from Wellington. Bookings were so heavy that the airlines were unable to cope with the demand for seats, and in some cases intending travellers made reservations as long ago as last January. Donation to National Fund.

A cheque for £lOOO as a donation to the national, fund from the trustees of the Auckland Savings Bank was received yesterday afternoon by the National Patriotic Fund Board. In _ accordance with the statutory provisions of the Savings Bank Act. it was necessary before' forwarding the cheque to obtain the consent of the Minister, of Finance to the gift. The letter which accompanied the cheque stated that this consent had been received expeditiously. Yesterday was a good day from the point of view ol donations received. Several contributions from business firms arrived in the mails. Mew Bee Disease.

The worries of Canterbury beekeepers have been increased by the appearance. this season, in their hives of a disease hitherto unknown in New Zealand, states the “Christchurch StarSum’’ It appears to be "European foulbrood." but though the infected broodcombs show all the symptoms consistent with this diagnosis, definite identification of the disease has not yet been announced. Specimens of infected brood are being examined by experts. Like “American foul-brood,” which has long plagued apiarists in the Dominion, the European variety is a fungoid disease. but it is more easily eradicated.

Settlement of Industrial Disputes. "The Government stands for the principle of settlement of industrial disputes by conciliation, or. if that fails, by arbitration. It takes the view that if any members of a union are not prepared to accept this principle and abide by decisions of the Court of Arbitration they should not at the same time take advantage of the shelter given by the Court. This statement. was made in the annual report of the Parliamentary Labour Party read to the annual party conference yesterday by the Deputy-Prime Minister. Mr Fraser, on behalf of the loader of the party, the Prime Minister, Mr Savage.

Waikaremoana Catchment Area. The necessity for the preservation of the forest in the Waikaremoana catchment area, a suggestion from the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, was given support at the March meeting ol the Gisborne Chamber of Commerce. Following was the motion passed at the quarterly meeting oi the Hastings Chamber and endorsed in Gisborne. "That in the opinion of this chamber it is more than ever desirable that the greatest care be taken to ensure that there is no interference with the forest in the Waikaremoana catchment area, no matter for what purpose. and that it is also the opinion of this chamber that the value of the forest within the area specified demands the appointment of a forest ranger permanently engaged, if this has not already been done.”

War, Finance and Science. •■How much more possible would be a state of perpetual peace, order and advancement if all (he people of the earth were saturated with the ethics of science,” said Mr T. W. C. Totliill. of Christ's College, in an address on ■■Science and Education” to the Canterbury Institute of Chemistry. "War is a carry-over of one ol the primitive instincts of tribes, which belongs to the first stage of man's development, the appropriative period. And it is a stupid attitude of mind to asserl that there will always be wars between people." He said that in all enlightened democracies today more orderly, peaceful and sensible methods of arbitration had been worked out. "And what about the realm of economics mid finance?" lie added. "It seems to me that I hi.: is where man has advanced iea.,i of all in recent years. In this he is truly in the appropriative period. We are not much nearer the solution of the problem ol starvation in, the midst of plenty, though the absurd-; itv of it SiKirnctl our civilisutiuii tor more than 30 years, science ban-| isb.ed the age of scarcity.