LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1929, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Tlie gate at the Wa ir a r apa -Ma na w hernia football match on Saturday was £240/5/-.

For some time past the girls attending St. MatthcAv’s Collegiate School have been practising for their parts, and to-morrow evening in the Parish Hall those interested in children’s music Avill be afforded an opportunity of hearing the pupils in the juvenile opera “The Enchanted Rose.” The production consists entirely of music in the form of recitative, soli, duets, trios and two and three part choruses. The cast has been Avell. prepared and the scenery and dressing’have received great care and attention. Reservations' may be made at the school.

The auxiliary schooner Paroto, Avhich went ashore at White Island on the night of August 7, arrived in Auckland in town of the steamer Apanui on Saturday. The exact extent of the damage suffered by the vessel will not be known until she is slipped and an inspection made. At present she is known to have torn a hole in her bottom, underneath the engine room, by grinding on the rocks that lie in numbers on the floor of Crater Bay, and about 20 feet of her starboard bulAvarks were flattened out on to the deck. This has already been partly rectified.

Some enjoyable and keenly contested games of ping pong were played on Saturday evening by members of the Masterton Winter Sports Club when a singles handicap tourney was held. The trophies Avhich Avere donated by Miss A. E. McKay and Mr G. Joy, Avere Avon by Mrs Garvitch and Mr W. Ross. It Avas stated that it Avas proposed to hold a ping pong and social evening in

aid of the funds of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union tOAvards the end of September. An invitation is being extended to a team of players at Bulls and the Ivopuaranga Club Avill also participate. . ,

Mr P. R. Talbot, President of the South Canterbury Branch of the Ncav Zealand Farmers’ Union, reports a Timaru message, expressed surprise at a statement made in the House of Representatives by Mr W. J. Poison (Stratford) President of the Ncav Zealand Farmers’ Union. Relative to a discussion on taxation proposals in the budget Mr Poison stated that he aa’us “speaking for the farmers,” but in Mr Talbot’s opinion Mr Poison had spoken out of his turn. Mr Talbot said that Mr Poison, Avhile president, had received no mandatory powers from the various Farmers’ Union branches, as yet, to speak on their behalf. In fact that day he (Mr Talbot) had received a telegram asking that delegates be appointed from the South Canterbury' branch to attend a

conference in Wellington on Thursday next.

A meeting of the general committee of the Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society was held on Saturday at Carterton. The treasurer’s statement recorded a bank debt of £1222, and receipts for tho month totalling £173 13s. Mr F. W. Cornwall, of Bell Block, Taranaki, wrote agreeing to judge the Jersey section at the show to be held in October. Votes of thanks were accorded Mr lan McLeod for his donation of a cup valued at £ls 15s for the most points in the unhoused sheep section; and to the Carterton Horticultural Society and'Mr E. Hale for their donation of shrubs to the Society. A gold medal for the best twotooth Southdown ram from a hock registered with the Society,' was allotted for competition by the Southdown Sheep Society of New Zealand. The New Zealand Kennel Club notified that it had been decided to issue challenge certificates on a point* basis.

The Wairarapa I’. and A. Society on Saturday decided to allot Mr J. W. Warrington’s Cup for the best dairyfarmers ’ horse in regular Avork.

The neAV Lewisham hospital building at XeAvtoAvn (Wellington) Avas opened yesterday afternoon by the GovernorGeneral (Sir Charles Fergusson) before a large gathering.

The Masterton FruitgroAvers’ Association has made a donation of £1 to the Small Holders’ Association as a small token of appreciation of the efforts of the latter in connection Avith fireblight.

According to the Maoris, avlio have certain means of their oAvn of making their prophecies, there Avill be very little rain for some Aveeks, and they also predict an early spring and a someAvhat dry summer (says the Thames Star).

Messrs Freeman and Brockett intervicAyed the Wairarapa P. and A. Society at its meeting on Saturday seeking assistance tOAvards prizes for the boys’ and girls’ calf clubs. Consideration of the matter Avas held over until the next meeting of the general committee.

An inspection of the Waikato River Avas made on Saturday by the Hon. E. A. Ransom in reply to a request for assistance for river improvements scheme for the purpose of draining adjacent land. The Minister promised to spend £ISOO on an investigation, reports a Hamilton Press Association message.

At the meeting of the general committee of the Wairarapa I’, and A. Society" on Saturday it Avas resolved to ask Colonel McDonald, M.P. for Wairarapa, to oppose .the proposed increases in taxation on farming incomes, and in primage duty, as outlined in the Budget.

.On Saturday morning Detective Sergt. UoAvitt, Sergt. Abel and Constables Beadle and Nesbit, acting under a search Avarrant, A"i sited the house of Thomas 11. Brewer, Jnr., and arrested him on a charge of keeping a common gaming house, reports an Invercargill Press Association message. The accused appeared before justices in the S.M. Court in the afternoon and Avas remanded until August 19, bail being alloAved.

The Southland executive of the Farmers’ Union discussed the Government’s taxation proposals on Saturday and the folloyving resolution Aims carried: “That this executive views Avith grave apprehension the supertax proposed to be put on land and also the reduction in mortgage exemption and considers that if put into effect, it Avill react on production, and it is further requested that the Government economise in CA-ery possible Avay until the budget is satisfactorily balanced.”

The Masterton County Council has been advised by" the District Engineer of Public Works that the Department has authorised the carrying out of the Twisted Creek Deviation (about 33 miles from Masterton) as an unemployment relief Avork, the Department paying a subsidy of 30s in the £l. An expenditure of about £7OO is entailed. It is expected that Avork Avill be proA’ided for from ten to tivelA-e men for about six Aveeks. The deviation Avill be put in hand as soon as possible, probably ivithin a week or ten da vs.

In an article in the New Zealand Surveyor describing a tour through the UreAvera country, the Avriter, Harold Jenks, mentioned that after a brief stay" in the region round Pohutu he and another surveyor pitched their camp in the valley" leading down to Rotomahana, There Avere there numberless hot streams and boiling springs. In this valley" they were surprised to find “the normally cold-blooded frog in streams that Avere almost too hot for the hand to bear.”

The dole, which had cost Britain up to the present time over £600,000,000, was still a very neavy drain on the public purse, and as.an economic Avastc it could not be disputed, says Mr Duncan, a returned Christchurch merchant. Had that amount, or half of it, been used in the development of the overseas Dominions, on the understanding that they" absorbed annually" a quota of the unemployed not only" Avould it have relieved, and perhaps eliminated, the unemployment question, but it would have been the means of developing the Dominions in a manner tb.-t could not have been pursued successfully by individual overseas Government.

Owing to numerous requests the popular Gaiety Orchestra comprising (i players held a dance in the Masonic Hall on Saturday" evening. The guests of the evening Avere the ManaAvhenua footballers and the President of the Wairarapa Rugby Union. There ivere SO couples present, all of Avhom thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Streamer dances and Monte Carlos Avere enjoyed and good prizes Avere presented. The lucky number dance proved very popular. Another of these dances Avill be held shortly and Avill be fully advertised in the “Daily Times.”

At the Optimist Club dinner at the Masterton Y.M.C.A. rooms on Saturday" evening, Mr Len Greenberg during an address on “Optimism” gave the folloAving humorous definitions of an optimist: —A man avlio has lived a long time Avith a pessimist. The Scotchman Ai’ho took up •'flying because he had heard there Avas a silver lining behind the clouds. The man avlio arrived at the raihvay station Avith his Avife and discovered that he Avas just 30 seconds too late, but instead of raging and blaming his Avife turned to her very calmly and smilingly said, ‘ ‘ Well Ave are at least 23 hours 591 minutes too early for the next train.”

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Included in the passengers who arrived at Auckland by the Rimutaka from England on Saturday t a party of thirty-two Salvation Army hoys who have come to New Zealand to take up farming. The lads, who are a bright and cheery lot have been drawn from the Hadleigh Farm Colony in Essex. They are going to Putaruru for three months’ training before starting out upon their careers in New Zealand.