LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 January 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The “Daily Times” will not be published on Friday .(Anniversary Day) as that day is fixed by the Arbitration Court as a holiday for newspaper employees. Advertisers please note. The Masterton Borough Council advise that all rates must be paid on or before Monday, 15th. February. The rapid increase of rabbits, partly due to the unusually dry season, in the Palliscr Bay region, is causing considerable concern among fanners. Following the lead of other centres, it is proposed to establish a Self Help Club” among the unemployed in Masterton.

A general invitation is given the public to visit the unemployed boys’ camp on Friday (Anniversary Day), when the camp will be open for inspection by visitors.

>* Handicap events to be decided by the Masterton Amateur Swimming Club at the Dixon Street Baths this evening at 7.30, are as follow: 100 yards, senior men; 50 yards, senior men; 75 yards, intermediate; 25 yards, junior boys; 50 yards, ladies; long dive. “The camp is due officially to close down on January 30, but efforts are being made to continue the scheme for a group of specially selected boys,” Mr. L. J. Greenberg who is in charge of the agricultural training and holiday camp at Penrose stated last evening. He said the chief difficulty would be the finding of suitable leaders if it were decided to carry on.

At last night’s meeting of the Borough Council the Chamber of Commerce was granted the use of the Town Hall free on the evenings of February 18 and 19 for the purpose of holding entertainments in connection with Shopping Week. The Chamber was also given permission to use the Park Oval on one night. Cr. R, Russell raised a protest in regard to the Chamber being given the lighting free while there was a resolution in the minute book against such action. He thought it would be establishing a precedent. The Mayor, Mr. T. Jordan, made the remark that they could break a precedent and say no when necessary.

At a meeting of the Finance Committee of the Women’s National Welfare League, accounts relating to the distribution of Christmas cheer to relief workers and their families were finalised. Accounts amounting to £6 12s : Sd were passed for payment. Cash donations received amounted to £5 18s. The puddings distributed numbered approximately ninety. There was also a distribution of cakes, vegetables, fruit, and a case of biscuits donated bv the Southern Cross Company. The Christmas Cheer Committee wishes to thank the following for the donations indicated: Mrs. Butler, cakes; J. Catherall, pudding and cake; J. P. Perry, vegetables and fruit. Some of the puddings were without tags. Donors and all who in any way helped are asked to accept the league’s thanks. It was observed at the meeting that if donors could have seen the pleasure given by the distribution of Christmas cheer, they would have been well repaid.

A frost of 1.8 degrees was registered at Masterton this morning.

The Eev. John Davie will conduct services at Kaipararoa and Eketahuna on Sunday next.

A Presbyterian Church service will be held on Sunday, January 24th., at Mauriceville, at 11 a.m. and at Kangitumau at 2.30 p.m. Sunday School at 2 p.m. The Hastwells .Social Committee, at a meeting held last night and presided over by the chairman, Mr A. G. Tliorby, decided not to hold a picnic this year in view of the economic depression.

Arrangements are being made, through the courtesy of the management of Messrs. T. Borthwick and Sons, Ltd., for the boys in camp at Penrose to visit the Waingawa Works of the company.

Tho Borough Abattoir report presented at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council stated that IS2 cattle, 1014 sheep, 226 pigs, 47 calves, and 598 lambs had been killed during the month of December and that the total fees amounted to £223/6/-.

The holders of the Wairarapa Croquet Association’s gold button, Mesdames Poison and Finlayson, were ao-ain successful yesterday in retaining them, when they defeated Mesdamcs Weller and Wilkinson (Lansdowne) 26—17. The match was played on the Park Club’s greens.

The librarian of the Masterton Public Library reported to a meeting of the Borough Council held last night as follows for the month of December: Books issued: Fiction 3434; travel, etc., 27; books added, fiction I6S; subscribers end of November, 490; new subscribers, 5; subscribers left during December, 20; total subscribers end of December, 475; subscriptions collected, £3 2s.

We have received from Messrs. B. J. Ball (N.Z.) Ltd., paper merchants, Auckland, the following unusual advice note; —“Just a line to advise that Mr. Kobinson will be dropping in on }ou ‘ from the air’ on Wednesday next on the first paper business trip ever made in New Zealand in this way.” The annual conference of the New Zealand Institute of Gas Managers is to bo held in Master ton on February 24, 25 and 26. Mr. J. Learmonth, manager of the Masterton Borough Gasworks, is president of the Institute and will preside at the conference. It is anticipated that between 60 and 70 delegates will attend. Many of these will also be bringing their wives. Two haymakers had an alarming experience on a farm at Buckland (03 miles south, by rail, from Auckland). They were just completing a stack when it was 1 noticed to be on lire. They immediately attempted to extinguish the outbreak, but a cart alongside the stack, which had been used for bringing in the hay, caught alight and the horse bolted with it round the paddock. Meanwhile, the fire spread to the grass round the stack and commenced creeping across the paddock. Neighbours came to the rescue. The horse and cart were saved from destruction, and the lire in the paddock was arrested, but the stack was destroyed. The Foxton Unemployment Committee investigated at a recent meeting two cases of relief workers driving to work in cars. In one instance it was alleged that a man on the No. 5 scheme had a wife who was milking eight cows and whose son and a boarder were contributing to the household expenses. It was stated that there was a and two cars n the family. It was decided to suspend the man forthwith pending the signing, of a declaration. In another case, of a man who drove to work, it was stated that he resided in another district, but came to work at Foxton ‘because he preferred to work with a gang that worked instead of with a gang of loafers.”

The December report of the Masterton Municipal Band presented at a meeting of the Borough Council held last night stated that practices were held on the 3rd, 6th, 7th, 13th, 14th. 17th and 21st of the month. A programme was rendered in Hall Street on the 2nd. The Band assisted at Carterton “Band Sunday” "on the afternoon of the 6th; also at the Community Singing in the Municipal Hall on the evening of the 10th. A programme was rendered ip Queen Street on the evening of the 18th. Carols were played in different parts of the town on the mornings of the 20th and. 25th. A record trucking for the season was made at the Featherston railway station on Monday when close on 6000 sheep were despatched. Twenty-six trucks of fat lambs and wethers’ went to the Gear Co., Petone, 12 trucks to the Wellington Meat Export Co., 30 trucks of stores to Woburn, Lower Hutt, and 12 trucks of Romney rams from the studs of Messrs. Matthews, Bidwill, Q. Donald and Allan Donald, were railed to various parts of the North Island, one consignment going as far north as Kiriponui, North Auckland.