LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 October 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bad Fishing Season. “Very bad indeed,” said Mr E. Wiffen, secretary of the Wellington Acclimatisation Society, when asked about the trout fishing season which opened last Friday. “All the streams in the district have been running high and very dirty, and the weather has been very cold ever since the opening. I think the real season will commence next Saturday.” State Houses at Hastings. After a lapse of 18 months, during which period no new houses were erected, a start has been made with the construction of more State houses in Hastings. It is understood that about 20 house units are concerned in the latest contracts and the majority of them will be erected on what is familiarly known as Matthews Block, fronting Duke Street. Party Held Up by Slip. Delayed by a slip at Tatapouri caused by a severe hailstorm which mantled the district with white, the GovernorGeneral’s party en route to Ruatoria for the V.C. investiture was compelled to curtail the functions at Tolaga Bay and Tokomaru Bay, where Sir Cyril Newall officially opened a Maori centennial meeting-house and a dininghall respectively. Maori visitors who passed through Gisborne en route to the hui included 300 children from all parts of New Zealand and also 244 Maori soldiers and more than 150 Maori civilians from Rotorua, the South Island, Taranaki and Hawke's Bay. General Synod. For the first time for 21 years the General Synod of the Anglican Church will be held in Auckland next month, opening on November 24. Archbishop West-Watson will preside and among the bishops attending will be the Bishop of Melanesia, the Rt. Rev W. H. Baddeley. The bishop will make a hurried tour of the Dominion after the conclusion of synod and then visit Australia. The business session of the synod will cover about 10 days. Those attending, in addition to the bishops, will be three clerical and four lay representatives from each of the seven dioceses in the Dominion and also representatives from Melanesia and Polynesia. Land Sales Act. Service on the land sales committees to be set up under the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act is a matter for the discretion of individual members, in the opinion of the Temuka branch of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union. The following resolution was adopted at a meeting of the branch: “That this branch, while being in agreement with the objections raised by the Dominion president, Mr. W. W. Mulholland, to the passing of the Servicemen’s Settlement and Land Sales Act by reason of the throwing aside of long-established principles, feels that it must leave to the discretion of individual members of the union the decision whether they act on the land sales committee or not.” An original motion “that the executive be supported,” was lost.

Fall from Verandah, Mrs. E. Manihera, of Hastwells, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday with a fractured left leg which she sustained when she fell off a verandah. Sale of Health Stamps. The Masterton Post Office authorities report that there is still a brisk sale of health stamps. Sales so far this month total £65, as against £l9 10s for the month of October last year. A further supply of the l£d value has come io hand. Dance at Kuripuni. There was a large attendance at the Epiphany Hall, Kuripuni, last night, when the Church of the Epiphany Ladies’ Guild held a most successful dance. The music was supplied by Miss Madsen and extras were played by Miss Jean Jackson. A Monte Carlo waltz competition was won by Mrs. C. Jackson and partner. Supper was served by a ladies’ committee. “Kindergarten Day.” ‘Kindergarten Day” will be held in Masterton on Friday by the Masterton Free Kindergarten Association, and those associated with the movement hope for a continuance of the generous support that has been accorded in the past. Cut flowers will be on sale at several collection depots in Queen Street, and badges will be given for every donation however small. Absentee and Other Votes. The absentee and other outstanding votes (exclusive of soldiers’ votes) for the Masterton electorate were distributed as follow:—Absentee: G. H. Mackley (Nat.), 221; J. Robertson (Lab.), 179; D. A. Thompson (Dem. Lab.), 16; J. Power (Ind.), 6. Declaration: Mackley 13; Robertson, 17; Thompson, 3. Postal: Mackley, 129; Robertson, 97; Thompson 7; Power, 6. Among these were 16 informal votes, making a total for th? civilian vote of 57. Rabbitskin Levy. The rabbitskins committee announced in Dunedin yesterday that from and including Wednesday, October 6, the existing levy on the sale of rabbitskins will be cancelled. The levy has been cancelled in accordance with the committee’s policy of not making a levy when the price falls below £6 a hundred net to the rabbiter. This is equivalent to a floor price of £7 2s a hundred before taxes and railage, store charges, etc., have been deducted. Rehabilitation Proposals. Reference to a questionnaire circulated by the Rehabilitation Board, seeking information from local bodies as to works they might be able to put into operation at the end of the war or as to proposals for the establishment of industries was made at the last meeting of the executive of the Municipal -Association. Mr. H. D. Caro asked [where the finance was to come from with which those works were to be undertaken. It was decided to write to ‘the Prime Minister, referring to him the questions of the Rehabilitation Board and offering the co-operation of Ihe association and inviting the Government to accept that co-operation and to take the association into its confidence regarding the plans of the Government as to the rehabilitation of discharged service men.