LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 October 1930, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Five new members were elected to the Wairarapa Tramping Club at a meeting of the Committee last night.

A report on a scheme for the mining of the Kawarau River is to be prepared by Professor 'Hornell, in collaboration with Mr H. Vickerman, of Wellington, a Dunedin Press Association message reports. They will inspect the river immediately and later deposit the report in Wellington. “Another bale of wool gone west,” said a Gore farmer to an Ensign reporter. He explained (that he had eight bales of wo.ol off his 200 acres last season. He had just sold it and went to his tailor and ordered a suit of 'clothes. The suit cost £7 10s. A bale holds 50 fleeces and weights about. 300 pounds, he said, and he had sold at 6d per pound, so the £7 10s just paid for the suit of clothes represented by a bale of wool.

“To-day we are passing through a period of temporary depression,” said the Governor-General, Lord Bledisloe, during a speech at . the civic welcome at Hastings yesterday, “but do not let any pessimist tell you,” he said earnestly, “that the depression is going to be permanent. Be optimistic above all things. Your pioneers did not depend on Governments; they trusted in their guide. Let us trust in the same sources of strength, and by those means wo shall recover the prosperity we had in the days gone by. If we want to recover the prosperity of this country we must use every means in our power. We are bound to have an adverse trade balance unless we deal with the country that deals with us. If you cannot get what you want in your own country look across to your Motherland, the country that buys your wool, your butter, your meat, your cheese, and most of what you produce. If you cannot get what you want from either source look to your sister Dominions. That is the only way to recover prosperity. In that way you can do more for yourselves than Governments can do for you. Do not lean on Governments.”

One patch of sixteen acres of onions is under cultivation in the Greytown district.

Among the gifts recently received at the Methodist Children’s Home are several beautiful paintings presented by Mr David Smith.

The following are donations to the “Daily Times” Porirua Mental Hospital Radio Fund list: —O. and G. Dakin 5/-, M. E. and A. Francis 5/-.

During the past week the pilots and pupils of the Wairarapa Aero Club have put in the following flying times: Dual instruction, 3 hours 10 minutes; solo flying, 8 hours, 45 minutes.

Messrs. G. J. Goldsman and F. E. Allen have been appointed honorary rangers by the Wairarapa Tramping Club. The appointments have to be approved and confirmed by the Forestry Department.

Information in regard to the Wairarapa Tramping Club’s. activities will be posted from time to time on a notice board on the wall between the Community Stores and Mr Johansen’s sweet shop in Queen Street. A blow to B class broadcasting stations, which make large use of borrowed gramophone records, is an edict reported at Dunedin from the Associated Gramophone Companies that agents must not lend records to broadcasting stations.

There was a good attendance at a lecture on mission work in Palestine given in the Foresters’ Hall last night by Mr J. W. Clapham, a missionary from Palestine. The lecture, which was of great interest, was illustrated by beautiful lantern slide views of Palestine.

Charming views of some of New Zealand’s holiday and fishing resorts, mountain scenes, and pictures of swordfishing are now being displayed by the New Zealand 'Government Agency in the busiest part of Pitt Street, Sydney, attracting considerable attention.

A report presented to the Palmerston North City Council shows that by using a mixture containing 80 per cent, of New Zealand coal it was possible to make gas of the same quality as when the proportion was 80 per cent, of Australian. In addition, it saved the city over £2OOO.

The hearing -was continued and concluded in the Wellington Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Mir E. Page., S.M., of the case in which Laery and Company are charged with failing to disclose a pecuniary interest in a contract, and with rendering false sales .accounts to the External Affairs Department. The-Magistrate reserved his decision.

At a meeting of the Carterton District Committee of the Wairarapa Progress League the question of the recent alteration of the railway timetable in the afternoon being inconvenient to producers of .small fruits to catch the Wellington market next morning, was referred to the Greytown Committee for consideration, with a view to United action being taken.

...I The conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce sitting at the Hermitage yesterday debated for over three hours the following remit from Auckland:—“That there .should be no extension of existing agreements regarding wheat, and flour and that the duty on British Empire wheat and flour should be substantially revised downward and the sliding scale abol-

ished.” The remit was lost by a big majority.

An alleged pre-marriage contract by her husband to settle on her for life all the income from his investments was relied upon by Hinemoa Corelli Charlotta Richards in an action for specific performance or £IO,OOO damages, wliic-h she brought against David Richards, a retired university professor, of Otago, in the Wellington Supreme Court yesterday. His Honour Mr Justice Ostler was on the Bench. After a lengthy hearing plaintiff was non-suited.

At a, meeting of (representatives of the Farmers’ Union, freezing companies and stock firms, held yesterday afternoon, it was agreed to accede to the drovers’ request for rates of 27/6 per day for droving, making a reduction of 2/6 instead of the 5/- per day previously decided upon. The committee representing the Farmers’ Union, freezing companies and the stock firms, decided some time ago that the rate of pay for drovers should be reduced from 30/- per day to 25/-, from October .1. Later the drovers proposed as a compromise a reduction of 2/6 to 27/6 per day. This has now been agreed upon. A hailstorm swept Auckland and its suburbs shortly before daybreak and lashed gardens that had already been damaged by two days of wind and rain. The week-end storm was severe on tender plants, and experienced gardeners consider that growth will be retarded from five to seven days. October, like the English April, is usually a month of returning sunshine, and not of grey showers and storms; but this year it has been cold and unsettled. Auckland’s week-end experience was in keeping with the general conditions throughout New Zealand.

The Greytown Borough Council wrote recently to the Minister of Public Works asking that a Commission be set up to review the allocation of costs for the maintenance of the Matarawa bridge, which sj>ans the Waiohine river between Greytown and Matarawa. A letter was read from the Minister at the Council meeting on Monday night recommending that the local bodies concerned get together and endeavour to arrive at an amicable arrangement without resorting to a Commission. It was decided that the South Wairarapa and Feathcrston county councils be written to asking them to send delegates to a conference to consider the question of the maintenance of the Matarawa bridge.

The Ilamua Eifie Club (lance which was to have been held last night, was postponed on account of the death of Mr T. Eeddish.

The Solway College annual garden party and bazaar will be held at the College to-morrow (Friday). Cars will leave Knox Church at 2.15 p.m.

At the meeting of the Masterton Accountant Students ’ Society next Tuesday night Mr G. D. Wilson, M.A., will give a lecture on “The Higher Purchase Agreement. ” i Preceded by a sudden change in the temperature a heavy shower of hail swept the town shortly after 11 o'clock this morning. It was followed for a minute oir two by a downpour of rain, which quickly tilled the storm water channels. <g

Charles James Barlow was found with his throat cut at his home in Opapa Eoad, Christchurch, last evening. He was taken to Hospital, but on arrival there was dead. Barlow, who was 43 years old, was a railway shunter.

The first of the new season’s wool clip has reached the Auckland stores. Shearing has started on many farms in the vicinity of Auckland, and a start would also have been made in many of the back country districts but for the cold and wet weather experienced during the past month. Unless there is a decided improvement in the weather during the. next few weeks, the Auckland brokers fear that the offering at the first Auckland sale, which is scheduled for November 25, will be seriously affected.