LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Severe Frost. A frost of 10.7 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Patriotic Fund Raffle. The raffle of two feather pillows donated by Mrs Hunt to the Patriotic Fund was won by Mrs E. Allsworth, Makora Road. Youth’s Sudden Death. A youth aged 17, James Russell Caradus, employed in Wellington as a bank clerk, collapsed and died in Courtenay Place at about 6.15 p.m. yesterday. He was the youngest son of Mr and Mrs E. Caradus, Hataitai. Indoor Basketball. This morning a keen supporter of Indoor Basketball gave to the secretary (Mr D. Costello) seven miniature cups for the members of the winning team in the ladies’ B grade championship. The members of the winning team will also have their names engraved on the Interhouse Association Rose Bowl. Ladies’ Hockey.

Arrangements were made at a meeting of the Wairarapa Women’s Hockey Association last night to raise funds to meet the cost of sending a representative team to the Dominion tournament to be held at Auckland at the end of the month. The president, Mr F. Madsen, occupied the chair. There was a good attendance of members. Conversion of Motor Cars.

Within a period of 14 days up to Saturday night 30 .motor-cars were unlawfully converted by boys in Auckland city and suburbs, and when, in the near future, the Children’s Court is in session, the names of about 25 boys, the youngest 11, the eldest 16 will be called. Most of this “joy-riding” has been done at weekends, and on an average speedometers of converted cars have shown an extra 50 miles the owner could not account for. In a few isolated instances the vehicles were taken on week-nights. Nearly all the boys involved have admitted they worked together in twos and threes.

Conserving Native Flora. “When new roads are being formed or when so-called improvements . are being carried out, the usual course is for the engineer in charge to destroy all native growth and other vegetation on each side of the road,” says a statement issued by the president of the Forest and Bird Protection Society (Captain E. V. Sanderson). “Engineers are perhaps prone to be too practical, and their endeavour is to make the road a sort of speedway. In the course of time, users find such roads monotonous. Then a beautifying society or some such organisation is set up to plant trees which are only too often not as well suited to the conditions and for beauty as those which were originally destroyed. It is pleasing, however, to note that in recent years the Public Works Department has been saving original flora, as is evidenced in the new road between Pukerua and Paekakariki. while the Featherston County Council has done the same thing in the new Western Lake road.”