LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 October 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Frost in Masterton. A frost of 3.1 'degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. National Patriotic Fund. The amount subscribed to the New Zealand National Patriotic Fund is now £158,389. A Record Collection. The sale of daffodils and badges on the streets of Dunedin yesterday on behalf of the funds of the Plunket Society provided a record collection of £635. War Expenses Fund. Further interest-free loans and donations to the War Expenses Account acknowledged by the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, yesterday, bring the total up to £2,587,115. Art Exhibition. The Masterton Sketch Club will hold its annual exhibition in Masterton at 2 o'clock on Wednesday, October 9. The proceeds will be allocated to the Provincial Patriotic Fund. Good Fishing. Fishing in the Ruamahanga River yesterday a local angler secured a limit bag off a dry fly. As an indication ol the size of the trout, the bag included 4,?, 31 and 3-pounders. Similar successes are reported by other anglers. St. Andrew Society Gathering.

There will be a gathering of members of the St. Andrew Society in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, tonight. Mrs Bell, of Worksop Road, has prepared a haggis for the occasion. The function promises to be up to the usual high standard. Oratory Contest.

Teams from the Wairarapa College, St. Matthew’s College and Solway College will take part in the inter-colle-giate oratory contest in the Wairarapa College Assembly Hall tonight com • mencing at 7.45 o’clock. The judge will be Mr M. H. Oram, of Palmerston North.

State Forest Areas. Areas of land in the Makuri district totalling 4185 acres have been set apart as a permanent State forest, according to a proclamation published in this week’s Gazette. One area is of 1969 acres, in the Akitio County, formerly reserved for water conservation and climatic purposes, and another embraces 2202 acres, in the Pahiatua, Akitio and Eketahuna counties, also formerly reserved for the same purpose.

Gifts to Red Cross Society. The Masterton sub-centre of the Red Cross ! Society gratefully acknowledges the receipt of garments from the following:—Mesdames E. Ross, Quinn, H. Beetham, Herbert, S. Gawith, Torr, Mrs Cody and staff, Misses B. Vile, P. Willis. V. Hugo, B. Craig, A. Garland, Dixon and Harrison, the Rakanui Women’s Institute and the Solway-Manaia Women’s Institute. On Friday garments will be on display at the Red Cross Society’s Room in Park Street. Church to be Rededicated.

The historic Omahu Church, which was first erected more than 40 years ago and has now been practically rebuilt, is to be rededicated s on Sunday by the Bishop of Aotearoa, the Rt Rev F. A. Bennett. Funds for the renovations which have recently been carried out were made available from donations from all parts of Hawke’s Bay and from a loan from the Dio-, cesan Board. The church’s cemetery contains the graves of many of the famous tribal chiefs and a number of prominent pakeha pioneers of the district.

Waipawa Seat. No fewer than eight persons have already been mentioned as nominees for the National Party candidature in the Waipawa by-election. They are: — Mr J. D. Ormond, Junr, at present with the second echelon in England, Mr C. G. Harker, Waipawa; Mr Robert Tapper, National Party organiser for the district; Mr D. Eddy, Tikokino; Mr R. H. White, Otane; Sir Clutha Mackenzie, Auckland; Mr R. W. Carpenter, Mayor of Waipukurau, and formerly a resident of Masterton. Meetings will be. held on Tuesday to form electoral committees to select the candidate.

Increase in Wages. The granting of a 5 per cent increase in the wages of workers in cheese factories engaged in the manufacture of cheese or whey butter is the principal feature of the Cheese Factories Labour Legislation Suspension Order, 1940 (No. 2), gazetted this week. The order also varies the scale of wages in respect of workers in certain smaller factories, those affected being first and second assistants in four to six-vat factories and youths if they are the only worker in addition to the manager in two-vat factories. The provisions of the new order are effective from August 4. Outbreak of Milk Fever.

The heavy toll of dairy herds in South Taranaki due to milk fever is by no means confined to the North Island. Otago herds have been seriously affected by an epidemic which is causing concern because of the high mortality rate. A Dunedin veterinary surgeon who has had considerable experience with milk fever both in New Zealand and abroad, states that the high death rate in New Zealand is due to the fact that in a great number of cases the sickness is associated with complications such as “grass staggering.” Much of the trouble, however, is caused by delay in administering treatment. Modern methods can obtain a complete cure even in complicated cases provided advice is obtained at the first onset of the sickness.