LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 May 1944, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mr. W. Kemp Speaking Tonight. 1 Mr. W. Kemp,, non-party candidate for the Masterton mayoralty, will address a public meeting in the Y.M.C.A. Main Hall toffight at 8 o’clock. An invitation has been extended to the non-party candidates for the Borough Council and the Hospital Board to address the meeting if they so desire. Petrol for June. The Minister of Supply and Munitions, Mr. Sullivan, announces that the War Cabinet has decided to continue the petrol ration for private motorists at the half-coupon rate for the month of June and accordingly coupon number 12 will be available at half its face value. Hansell’s Concert. The large audience which last night filled the Masterton Savage Club ! rooms voted Hansell’s Sports Club concert an outstanding success. All taking part gave a splendid account of themselves. After the concert the girls were entertained at supper and musical honours were accorded Miss M. Iveson and Mr J. W. Henderson for their splendid services. Loss of Mails. The loss of mails for the Middle East, India and Ceylon was announced last evening by the Postmaster-Gen-eral, Mi- Webb. The lost mails were as follows:—For New Zealand Forces in the Middle East: 22 bags of letters, consisting of postings made throughout New Zealand during the first 10 days of February; 1687 bags of parcels and 229 bags of newspapers, consisting of postings made during the latter part of January and early in February in northern districts of the North Island (Auckland, Hamilton and Thames postal districts), and during the same period in the South Island (with the exception of Nelson and Blenheim postal districts). There were no parcels or newspapers posted in the Wellington, Hawke’s Bay, Taranaki, Blenheim and Nelson districts in the dispatch. For India and Ceylon: 34 bags of letters, newspapers and parcels, consisting of postings made in the Wellington, Taranaki and Hawke’s Bay districts and the whole of the South Island during early February.

Alleged Differences of Opinion. Differences of opinion between the executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union and the New Zealand Sheepowners’ Federation were alleged at a meeting of the Wanganui provincial executive of the union yesterday to be holding up the formation of the New Zealand farmers’ federation, and members present took strong exception to the position which had arisen. The following motion was carried: “That this executive urges all possible haste with the amalgamation of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union and the Sheepowners’ Federation, as this urgent achievement is vital to the proper protection of the farming interests, and that if the Dominion executive can give us no hope of this accomplishment we call on the Dominion executive to call public meetings of producers throughout New Zealand to form a farmers’ federation and by this means force the hands of the Sheepowners’ Federation.”