LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 April 1931, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A movement is on foot to establish a First Aid Class in Greytown, and at a preliminary meeting twenty-four members were enrolled.

In the final of the ladies' tennis ■championship of the Carterton Club, played between Mrs Steel and Miss F. Booth, the latter, after a good game, was victorious, 6/2, 6/3.

The suspension bridge over the Hutt River opposite Haywards, erected some years ago by Mr W. 11. George, was swept away by the flood of Friday night. It is understood that the bridge was insured in Lloyd's. Mr George is expected to arrive from Australia in the course of a few days.

A girl nineteen years of age, who was found sleeping out, was arrested in Featherston on (Saturday. She later appeared before a Justice of the Peace to answer a charge of vagrancy and vas remanded for seven days to appear in Wellington.

Tiie washout which occurred on the southern approach to the railway bridge over the Tauherenikau river, near Fernside, has been repaired. No trains were able to get across on Saturday, passengers, mails and luggage having to be transhipped, 'but the track was made passable again yesterday. That the horse’s day on the farm is not yet done was strikingly emphasised at the auction sales at the Royal Easter Show in Sydney. The outstanding feature iyas the demand for draught stock. Practically all colts sold at excelleiit prices, ranging from 62 to 170 guineas. Competition was correspondingly good for purebred Clydesdale stallions, mares, and fillies, while last week's sales of beef and dairy cattle were the best for two years.

T]ie large assembly ball of Nelson College was well tilled when visiting old boys were accorded a hearty welcome to the 75th anniversary re-union. Mr C. H. Broad, Principal of the'College, said that old students would notice great changes in the school over a number of years, the latest being the erection of houses for boarders, whic-h he considered marked a new ora in the school’s history as a boarding institution. .Mr F. Hamilton, chairman of the Council of Governors, thanked the old boys for their loyalty to their old school and for sending their sons to the school of their fathers. The College was now the largest boarding college of its kind in the Dominion. The Masterton Amateur Athletic Club will hold its postponed meeting at the Memorial Park next Saturday. In view of the fact that the Friendly Societies’ annual seven-a-side Rugby tourney will be held at Carterton oil Saturday, the football tourney, which was to have been held in conjunction with the sports, has been postponed until a later date. There was a largeattendance at a most successful and enjoyable dance, held in the Municipal Social Hall on Saturday night by the Masterton Amateur Athletic Club. Mr J. Henderson Avas an efficient M.C. Excellent music was supplied by the Savoy Orpheans orchestra, while extras were played by Mr T. Young. The supper arrangements were in the hands of a capable ladies’ committee headed by Mrs J. V. Dolan.

Mere instinct guides both bird and beast, When, in the wilds they wander free; Unerring sense directs the least— The monkey knows his own home tree. Mere instinct also aids mankind To ease the ailments all endure — Relief for colds mere babes may find In Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 4

According to Mr E. J. Carroll, the Australian entrepreneur, Maurice Chevalier, the famous French comedian and film star, will visit New Zealand within the next two years.

A feature of the Easter railway traffic is the large number of passengers who are travelling second-class, presumably as a result of the present depression.

An expedition of five young men lias left London for India to climb the unconquered Himalayan Peak, Karmet, 25,447 feet high. The leader is Mr F. S. Smyth, and the others are: Captain St. J. Birnie, Messrs. R. L. Holdsworth, E. E. Shipton, and Dr. Raymond Greene.

The Akatarawa road, according to Mr 11. Dwyer, Hutt County Council overseer, is at present impassable, and will be so for some time. Washouts and slips constitute the bulk of the damage, and it is the intention of the council to put men on repairing the damage immediately. When the road can be reopened an official announcement will be made.

Both her companionship with a diamond smuggler and her frequent visits to Holland caused suspicion to rest on the fashionably dressed Frau Marga in Cologne, states a cable. Many searchers failed to disclose anything till she was made to remove her glass eye, in which £IO,OOO worth of diamonds were found to be concealed.

A very original twenty-first birthday dance was given on Saturday night for Mr John Griffiths at Lowry Bay. The three hosts, Mr Dunningham, Mr Griffiths, and Mr Mackintosh, greeted their guests in vivid suits of red, blue and green with large artists’ bow ties.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, touring in Mr Fierpont Morgan’s yaclit, the Corsair, after his illness, had a long conversation with the Metropolitan of Athens, the leader of the Greek Church, states an Athens cable. He discussed the unity of the Anglican and Greek Churches.

A message from Detroit says the Ford Motor Company announces that in the calendar year 1930 the world output of Ford cars and lorries totalled 1,500,000 units. This was considerably lower than the output of 1929. The company 's profits for 1930 are estimated at £10,000,000, iu spite of the depression.

Hawera and the neighbouring, countryside have not experienced such a dry March for many years as the recent month. It was the driest in the last decade at. least. Rain fell on eight days, with a total fall of .93in. The greatest fall on any day was .3in. on March 23rd. In March, 1929, 4.5 in. fell, and the previous driest March in the last ten years was l.lßin. The average rainfall for the month in the last ten years has been 2.95 in., and the mean 3.93.

Last night about 7 o'clock a collision occurred between two motor cars just south of Eketahuna. A third car driven by Mr Murray, manager of the Bank of New Zealand, Eketaliuna, ran into the two wrecked cars a minute later. Mr Murray and a little boy were cut about the face. It is understood that the occupants of the other cars were unhurt. All three cars suffered a fair amount of damage.

Motor-car imports into- New Zealand during 1930 declined 39 per cent, on the total for the previous year, and tlie decrease in commercial motor vehicles- was 47 per cent. The aggregate dutiable value of all classes of cars, chassis, trucks, vans, and buses imported last year was £2,478,140, as compared with £4,278,720 in 1929. British cars suffered least in the decline, and actually exceeded American car imports last year.

An accident in which three motor ears were involved occurred on Saturday night on the Masterton-Carterton Highway'at the sharp bend on the Masterton side of the Taratahi Hotel. It appears that two cars collided and while the drivers were arguing as to who was in the wrong a third car driven by Mr F. Clapcott, of Masterton, collided with one of the stationary cars. The lights of both the cars concerned in the first collision were out, and Mr Clapcott had no chance of avoiding them at the bend.

During the Easter holidays many Masterton people visited Hawke’s Bay. A number took the opportunity to visit the famous gannet sanctuary at Cape Kidnappers. The visitors were rewarded with a fine view of the gannets who are due to leave shortly on their long annual pilgrimage northwards. The sanctuary was practically unharmed by the recent earthquake although the high cliffs along the beach between Kidnappers and Clifton have suffered in places. There is one particularly bad slip about two miles out from Clifton which makes it necessary to return at least two and a half hours before high tide.