LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 22 December 1927, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Owing to the small number of junior medical men available for the coming year, the North Canterbury Hospital Board has decided to make inquiries in Melbourne and Sydney with a view to tilling probable vacancies on the staff. Two accidents occurred on the Wellington wharf yesterday. W. Manning, of 157 Upland Road, a clerk, sustained a crushed foot as the result of being run over by a trailer. P. Staples. a watersider, sustained a fractured nose through being struck by a frozen carcase. Finger-prints cannot be left on “TAN-OL” polished furniture. Unsurpassed for floors, furniture and leather goods. Easy to apply. All Grocers. * t-a • ti ii.

The underwriters receive 62 per cent, of the New South Wales loan, states a message from London. The Victorian Legislative Council, by 19 votes to 12, has rejected a Bill to legalise the totalisator in Victoria. ‘‘Mastcrton’s Coat-of-Arms ” reads a ticket placed upon a pocket whiskyflask in the window of a local jewellery store. The joke lies in the fact that the Mastcrton Borough Council is at present inviting designs for a suitable eoat-of-arms. At a meeting of the committee of the Mastcrton Horticultural Society, a satisfactory financial position was disclosed. There was a profit of about £2O on the recent show, and one of £lO on the preceding bulb exhibition. The society now has a credit balance of £lls, including £SS derived from the subscriptions of .170 members. According to a cable the Japanese Minister of Communications announces that he will not permit the Western Union Telegraph Company to land the proposed Seattle-Shanghai cable at the treaty port of Hakodate. He cited technicalities in the regulations against foreigners operating telegraph stations on'Japanese soil. In the evidence given yesterday at the inquest concerning the death of John Dunnctt, aged 39, who was found dead in front of the home of his exiiance at 146 Peterborough Street, Christchurch on. December 7, it, was said that the stomach contained about two grains of strychnine." The inquest was further adjourned. According to the"report to be submitted to the New Zealand Soccer Association’s annual meeting the association has exhausted its funds, the loss on the Canadian tour and the Football Association Trophy competition, etc., absorbing the £2OOO obtained from the art union. It is probable that the financial position will interfere with next season’s programme.

Members of the Y.M.C.A. Bovs’ Department spent an enjoyable evening on Tuesday, on the oeasiou of the season’s wind-up social. A number of parents and brothers and sisters of the boys were present. The medal presented by Mr .1. Bradbury for the best all-round boy was won by Max Nice!, and a second trophy donated by Mr H. 15. I.’ither was awarded to Reg Thomson, the presentations being made by the general secretary, Mr A. 15. Bate. After supper the proceedings terminated with the 1 singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” When the barrier that spans the new marine parade at Lyall Bay (near Onepu Road) is removed to-morrow, Wellington wiil realise, for the first time, a twenty-year-old dream —-that is, the completion of a marine from Clyde Quay round Oriental aiuL'Evans Bays, Watts’ Peninsula, and on via Lyall, Houghton, and Island Bays, to Ohiro Bay, at the seaward end of the Happy Valley Road. This is a distance of approximately thirty-eight miles (all within the metropolitan area), and is said to be the longest and one of the most picturesque marine drives pos-’ sessed by any city in the world.

An inquest was held in Wellington yesterday by the Cdfoner (Mr W. G. Riddell, S.M.) into the death of Thomas Shanahan, a single man aged 43, who was severely burned as a result of an accident on December 8 in the retort-house at the Gasworks, Miramar, where he was employed as a stoker. Shanahan died in the Wellington Hospital'on December 18. The Coroner’s verdict was that deceased died from heart failure, following extensive burns accidentally received while working in the retort-house at the Miramar Gasworks. “From the evidence given,” added Mr Riddell, “it seems that the ordinary precautions had been followed, and that it. was one of those accidents which happen so suddenly that there is no chance of preventing them.”

A boys’ camp will be held at Donald’s Bush, Te Whit i, under the auspices of the Y.M.C.A., from January 19 to February 2, inclusive. All phases of camp life will be under the personal supervision of the General .Secretary, Mr A. E. Bate. Firearms will not be permitted in camp, and bathing will only be allowed at times when supervision is possible. The programme will include tramps, all day excursions, sports, swimming, fishing, competitive games, camp-fire yarns ajul talks, singsongs, daily devotions and Sunday services, tests and camp duties. In addition to members of the Y.M.C.A., the camp will also be open to nonmembers on payment of a half-year’s membership fee of 2s 6d.' The names of all boys likely to go into camp must be handed to Mr Bate, who will supply full information, not later than tomorrow. At the Southland Metropolitan Show last week, Wairarapa-bred Romneys were again very much to the fore, Messrs Mosely and Son, of South Otago, who have been substantial buyers at the past two annual breeders’ fairs held at Solway, securing the, championship with a l'our-tooth ram bred by Messrs William Berry and Son, for which they paid SO guineas at last year’s fair, and Mr W. J. A. McGregor, of Mt. Linton Estate, won the woolly hogget class' with a ram also bred at “Penrose,” and for which he paid 143 guineas at auction itt the Royal Show this year. This year’s Romney judges at Invercargill were Messrs C. L. Allen, ‘Tipua, ” and 15. 15. Short, “Parorangi.” At the same show, Mr fi. Gilkison. of Invercargill, won the hogget class with a Southdown rain bred by Mr Q. Donald, “Alloa.” A further success has also been secured bv Mr J. C. Alexander, of Maxwelltown, who has won the championship at the Stratford Show —his third similar win for the year—with the ram lie purchased from" Mr Q. Donald hist year. Another ram of Air Donald s breeding, purchased at last year’s fair, has also carried off the championship at both the Northern Wairoa and Whangarci Shows.

Dunk notes circulating in Alasterton lately are particularly dirty, pointing to indifference to public health on the part of the Banks. The fortnightly sitting of the .Magistrate’s Court in Alasterton to-morrow will constitute a record for brevity, only one minor by-law ease being set down for hearing. Two first-offending drunks, who were arrested in Masterton yesterday afternoon "were convicted and disehniged this morning by Messrs E. Cr. Eton and Eli Smith, J’s.P. Both offenders had promised to leave the town. “This being the festive season, the Bench is inclined to take a lenient view of your offence,” remarked Mr E. G. Eton, J.P., when convicting and discharging two first-offending “drunks” at the Masterton Court to-day. Motor vehicles in New Zealand next y Ca r will carry number plates consisting of white figures on a brown background. This is the official designation, although the colour is more of a chocolate hue. The letter, indicating the class of registration, will be omitted.

On her maiden voyage from England the new motorship Maui Pom a re, which is expected to be handed over I>\ the builders to her owners, the New Zealand Government, this week, is to call at Apia, to land four large lighters, which are being built to the order ofthe Samoan Administration, and also at Niue Island. Latest advices state that the motorship is well up to schedule, and is expected to arrive at Auckland early in March. The Scots are not always so passionately fond of bagpipe music as they sometimes appear. At a Highland gathering down south, one of the contestants in the piping competition performed so excruciatingly that someone 'shouted out: “Put that blagyird off the platform.” The judge instantly stopped the contest and said,. “I shall not let this event proceed until I find out who called the piper a blagyird. ” There was a moment’s silence then someone observed: “It would oo m-.ui to the point if you could find oot who •called the blagyird a piper.”

Here is a talc they tell of a certain music hall magician. In one of his spectacular tricks his assistant has to disappear down the stage-trap, run round the theatre and make his re-

appearance in the front of the house. This item was always a popular success until the magician struck a town in the North Island. Here the theatre was situated on a corner, but the main entrance was a considerable way down the street. Between the entrance and the corner there was a cinema. On the first evening of their engagement the assistant duly “disappeared” and made his way out of the stage-door, but mistaking the cinema box office for that of the theatre, he darted past the commissionaire and ran into the auditorium, shouting loudly, “Here I am, 5 and firing his pistol. Thus the Christchurch “'Star”: —

Trust politicians to be ungrateful. -Mr ir. Holland, M.P.—he of Christchurch; not liis more distinguished colleague from Sydney and the W est Coast —has been trying to win a cheap laugh by jibing at the reporters.. ‘ ‘ Reporters, ’ ’ he said, ‘‘are very clever. They will conclude that if anyone proved that he was not walking down one street he was walking down the other.” He should be the last man to turn on the reporters. They covered up his faux pas and his gaucheries and his blunders during long yearsvwhcn he was Mayor of the city, and made it possible for him even to get elected to Parliament. And now he turns and rends them! F'ot that they will worry. It won't matter to them in future whether Mr Holland, M.P., is in Colombo Street, Christchurch, or the Boulevard de Molesworth, Wellington. They won't see him. Probably his grievance is that they have omitted the letters 0.8. E. after his name. In future they will have to see that these letters appear. Girl wanted. Wireless set wanted. Hodge car for sale. Mr \V. F. Shaw has pyjama suits for sale. Euchre tournament Trades Hall Friday night. Host gold brooch advertised for. Howard. Grade Jersey heifer and two registered bull calves for sales. The Tinui Parochial District Church services for Christmas Hay are .advertised on page one. Messrs «J. Bolton and Co., Packard service, advertise-their Christmas timetable on page 4 of this issue. Mr J. E. Jenkins, Aard car service proprietor, advertises special car arrangements to Wellington on Friday and Saturday. The Masterton County Council Ofces will be closed for the Christmas and Few Year Holidays from noon on Friday, -bird December, until 9 a.m. on Wednesday, 11th January. The W.F.C.A. have opened a new shipment of ‘ ‘Hamasclene, ” a great “heat resisting” covering for kitchen tables. The designs give this an appearance of linen Damask. .Note the prices on page 1.