Bucket Pumps.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1942, Page 2

Bucket Pumps.

Masterton’s quota of bucket pumps, numbering 25, has arrived for distribution to business firms requiring same. Those wanting pumps should communicate with the Town Clerk, Ml G. T. O'Hara Smith.

Judging Competition. A judging competition held at the Red Cross Shop Day on Friday in respect to a hogget donated by Mr_R. Garland was won by Messrs D. K. McKenzie and S. R. Gawith; each estimated the weight of the hogget to be 5811bs. The actual weight was 581bs. Patriotic Shop Day.

The Masterton branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers Union will hold a shop day for patriotic purposes on Wednesday, April 22. Produce will be sold at the Midland Hotel shelter while jumble and cake stalls will be opened in the shop opposite Hugo and Shearer’s in Queen Sti eet.

Auckland Launch Founders.

A party of 43 fishermen narrowly escaped drowning when their 60-foot launch, the motor-vessel Lady Jocelyn, of 50 lons, grounded on a reef and foundered in steep seas, almost half a mile from the eastern shore of Motuihi Island on Saturday afternoon. A major tragedy was averted by the arrival of a naval patrol,, which took off all the passengers only a short while before the Lady Jocelyn went under. Five members of the party made a hazardous trip to the island in the vessel’s dinghy while the remainder stodd on the sinking Lady Jocelyn watching their progress. The Lady Jocelyn' was going to Motuihi to land a naval rating who was found in distress in a dinghy in mid-channel. - ♦