LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 November 1928, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

®- The Municipal Band will be in attendance at the Garden Party at Mrs Cave’s residence next Saturday afternoon. Tn the schedule for the Master ton Horticultural Society's forthcoming Rose and Sweet Pea Show, Class 25A should read “three carnations, perennial.’’ Entries will close on Saturday with the secretary (Mr 11. I\ Ahrens) and may also be left with 31 r H. L. Esau or Messrs Ball Bros., Queen Street.

■Speaking at the Borough Council meeting last night Air Clhnie, secretary of the Canterbury Progress League, said that, lie was astonished to find such a splendid and prosperous district as Masterton. He had never seen such splendid country as that which he had visited that day. They had a district to be proud of. The St. Matthew’s Girls’ Club closed its season with a social evening yesterday. A very pleasant time was spent, in dancing, games and competitions. Occasion was taken to present Airs Rosewarne, who has coached the girls in their singing, with a beautiful painted cushion. Airs Bullock, who has been in charge of the playettos, was presented with a pyrex dish. The secretary of the Masterton Band reported to the Borough Council meeting last night as follows in connection with the Band for October: —Practices wore held oil the Ist, 71li, 11th, loth, 17th, 25th and 29th. Respective attendances were 11, 15, 20, Hi, 14. 14 and 15. The Band assisted at the Alcthodist Ladies Guild Bazaar on the 4th. and the Opaki Races on the 15th.

At the Supreme,Court at Invercargill yesterday, Allen Edward Tubman, aged 20, charged with fraudulently stating that he had posted a letter containing money, whereas in fact he had not posted it, appeared for sentence. Tubman had purchased a motor cycle on a time-purchase agreement and as he was unable to pay tho instalments on it he claimed to have posted the amount, when ho had not done so. The accused was sentenced to twelve months in the Borstal Institution.

The Librarian reported to the Borough Council the following figures for the Library for October:—Books issued, fiction 5458; travel 47; books ad(]od, fiction 65; juvenile fiction 18. Subscribers end of September, 656; new subscribers, 5; subscribers left during October, 2; total subscribers end of October, 657.

Put this on your grocery list—Sß ARLAN!) ’S TABLE VINEGAR. Pure, piquant and free from mineral acids. In bulk and bottle. *

A frost of 3.4 degrees was registered at Masterton this morning.

A London cable states that Mr John Kcurr, Labour M.l’. for Stepney, has resigned from the Labour Party, because he dissents from the Cook and Maxton campaign.

During October the following stock was slaughtered at the Masterton Abattoirs: —35 bullocks, 47 heifers, 167 cows, 19 calves, 216 wethers, 517 owes, 173 lambs, 119 pigs. The fees for the month amount to £193 lbs Gd.

Last year England experienced an appallingly wet summer but there was a strange reversal in the season just finished. This is what a Mastertonian travelling abroad has to say: —“Me can’t criticise the English climate now. I bought goloshes tlio first week we arrived (in May) and have worn them once—in Rome!”

At a meeting of the Park, Hall Library Committee of the Borough? Council, at which there were present Crs. Peacock, Anderson, Barton, Fletcher and O’Leary, it was decided that the t>t. Vincent de Paul Society be granted the use ol the Social Hall tor their recent dance rent free, the Council at its meeting last night adopted the recommendation.

At the Supreme Court at Gisborne yesterday before Mr Justice Ostler the case of: George Campbell, charged with setting file to the stables of the Milkaraka Hotel in which the jury disagreed last: session, occupied all d.ti and after four hours’ retirement the jury again failed to agree. On the Judge’s advice a decision on the matter of a third trial was held over till Thursday, to allow the Crown Prosecutor to communicate t\ith the Attoi-ncy-Genentl. The members of the Main Highways Board are to visit, the, Wairarapa on Friday next. They will arrive in Masterton at about 3.30 p.m. and will be entertained by the Masterton County Council at afternoon tea, in the Hotel Midland. Members of the Mauriceville and Castlepoint county councils and th,. Mavor (Mr T. Jordan) have also been invited. Mr \V. I. Armstrong, chairman of the No. 10 Highways District Council, will meet the members of the, Main Highways Board at Featherstou and accompany them on their journey north. The party will spend the night at Pahiatua.

When an inquest into the death of Freda. Helen Clark, aged 29, who was found dead at the' home of Nurse Georgina Colnott on November 1 was resumed in Auckland yesterday afteinoon, Mr Singer, who appeared for Nurse. Colnott. and others, asked that Mrs Doris Dannefeard, sister of the deceased, should not bo asked certain questions. The Coroner, Mr Hunt, S.M., directed that Mrs Dannefeard should leave the Court room while an argument. on the point was heard. A suggestion by the police to give an indemnity to the witness if she would give :i truthful account of what happened was characterised by counsel as preposterous. The Coroner then adjourned the inquest uutil to-daj in order that the Crown Solicitor should take charge of the proceedings.

The fortnightly meeting of the Claims .Board of the Wnirarapa Patriotic Association was held yesterday. There were present:—Messrs G. C. Summerell (in the chair), D. K. Logan and B. R. Burridge. The Association s solicitor advised that a mortgage investment of £SOOO had been paid off. A mortgage, free of interest, on a soldier’s dwelling was renewed for a further term of live years. A South Wairarapa soldier was awarded a g* ant of £25 and a loan of £25 to tide him over temporary financial difficulty. A local soldier was voted a weekly allowance. of 15s for two months. Grants of I,‘is lid per week and £1 per week respectively were voted a disabled soldier and his widowed mother. Sixteen claims for temporary financial relief were granted.

In the course of his remarks at the Borough Council meeting last night Mr B. R. Climie organiser 'of the Canterbury Progress League, said that the Canterbury League had done a great deal in the way of (advertising the attractions of its province, both from tht> standpoint of tourist traflie and as a Held .for investment. The booklets were distributed through railways, shipping companies and other tra\el agencies. Money for this form of advertising was not drawn from the ordinary funds of the league, but was provided by the business firms of Christchurch. He suggested that one of the first things the Wairarapa League should do was to advertise the attractions of the district, obtaining funds by an appeal to business firms. Another* thing the Canterbury League had done was to induce the P. and T. Department to abstain from imposing a heavy additional charge for telephones* The league had set up a special committee which was able to show the Department that the increase proposed was not warranted. In this wav £15.000 a. year had been saved to telephone subscribers in Canterbury and a very much larger sum to subscribers throughout the Dominion,

House to let. Used cars for sale. Paddock to let. Essex coach for sale. Building sections for sale. Mr X. H. James advertises a wellfurnished self-contained lint at Oriental Bay, to let for six weeks from Ist December. The latest novels just arrived by the. English mail: —“Nevada,” by Zane Grey; “The Lovers of the Market Place ” by Richard Delian; “The Guarded Halo,” by Margaret T’edler; “The Flutes of Shanghai,” by LouiseJordan Miln; “One of the Chorus,” by Berta Ruck; “Traceries,” by Olive Wadsley; “Black Rent,” by Harold Begbie. Price 6/- each at Messrs McLeod and YoungN The Academy, Alasterton.

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A Pahiatua telegram states that Airs E. Baring Could (70) residing with her daughter, .Mrs R. 0. Austin, was attending to an article on the kitchen stove when she tripped against a box and fell heavily. She fractured a hip and was sent to the Pahiatua Hospital for treatment.