LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 January 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Peter Smith, 8 years, was accidentally drowned in a pool at the Waitaki hydro'works at 1.30 p.m. yesterday. An inquest will be held. Two Japanese cruisers, the Asama and Iwate, will pay a visit to Wellington, their only port of call in New Zealand. They are to arrive on May 31st. and leave on June 3rd.

At a meeting of the •committee of the Wairarapa Aero Club last evening, ten new associate members and one’ flying pupil member were elected. It was reported that the North Island Air Pageant would be held at Wanganui on March 19tli. '“Jock, ’’ the massive black dog belodging to Mrs. Gilman of the Empiic Hotel, was run over by a motor lorry and killed in Queen Street the other day. He was a familiar sight in the business area of the town for the past three years, and his friendly disposition made him liked by all. “Jock,” who was four years of age, never went in search of a fight and would look with disdain on any other member of the canine family who had the temerity to throw down the gauntlet to him. A meat exporting firm operating in the Hastings district is offering 17/6 per 1001 b. for ox beef, which is equal to £6/16/- for a bullock weighing 8001 b. \Even at this price graziers will make a small profit on all forward cattle bought recently, but purchases made two years ago will still show a large loss. The fact of a certain number of cattle being bought for export during the summer and autumn practilly assures a fair price for beef during tho late winter and spring. It was decided at a meeting of the committee of the Eketahuna Tennis Club to hold the annual tournament as usual this year, for which entries are now being invited. As a means of encouraging the junior members it was decided to divide the women’s championship event into two grades. Entries will be received for the championship event and the players will be graded into senior and junior divisions by the handicap committee. Another feature is the reduction of the entrance fee to half the usual amount.

In view of an urgent demand for economy no hope is held out by the Minister of Education for the restoration of the annual Government grant of £l5O toward the maintenance of the public schools library system in the Wellington district. When a deputation representing the Wellington Federation of educational Associations waited upon him yesterday the Minister said that if the grant were made in Wellington he would have to restore those made in other districts, which ■would involve an annual commitment of about £3500.

As a sequel to the Edendale bank sensation, Maurice Patrick Duft'ev, married, aged 27, was charged at the Invercargill Police Court yesterday with breaking and .entering the dwelling of Robert Archibald by night with intent to commit a‘ crime. William Leonard Brewer, single, aged 2-1, was similarly charged, also with stealing a bag containing £847, the property of the Ocean Beach Freezing Company. The latter charge was also preferred against Thomas Harold Brewer, married, aged 33. Bemands for one week were granted. Counsel for Thomas Brewer applied for bail, which was fixed at £IOOO self, and a surety for a similar amount.

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A cable advises that the Japanese robbers of the Keigo Bank have been arrested in the licensed quarter of Seoul and the stolen £78,000 recovered.

The three girls admitted to the Masterton Hospital on Tuesday night as the result of a motor ear accident at Tauherenikau arc 'making satisfactory progress towards recovery. On the loth, instant, the Public Trustee was, by the Supercme Court, constituted administrator of the estate of Thomas Annett, also known as Thomas Annette, late of Carterton, surveyor.

A cable states that three thousand Moscow children are to be trained to take part in the forthcoming chemical manoeuvres, which the Soviet Government is organising. The children will demonstrate with gas masks during poison gas attacks. Piloting the Wairarapa Aero Club’s ’plane, ZK—AAM, Mr. A. R. C. Ciaridge left the Hood Aerodrome this morning at 5.30 o’clock, arriving at Dannevirke an hour later, where Mr. Brian Armstrong took over the machine and departed for Auckland. Mr. Armstrong intends to return to Dannevirke this evening.

The Stock Exchange Association of New Zealand received a cable message yesterday from the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney stating that an interim dividend would bo paid for the half-year ended December 31, at the rate of 6 per cent, per annum, payable at bead office, Sydney, on January 27th. The dividend for the previous year was SA percent., as compared with 10 per cent, for 1929. The past spring and the current summer have proved prolific breeding seasons for rabbits in the Wanganui district. It Avas stated at a meeting of the Wanganui County Council recently that the average litter from a doe last year was five or six. This year the average had groAvn from eight to nine. Several fanners expressed concern at the AA’ay rabbits Averc spreading, even in the clear country where there was a minimum of cover.

At 7 a.m. a sheep farmer telephoned the Waitara freezing Avorks that he had a line of 1200 head of eAves and lambs to go fonvard. By 11 a.m. tIiCA- had been mustered and drafted. In one hour’s time they had been loaded and Avere en route to Waitara, 40 miles off. Two hours later they arrived in first-class condition, fresh and clean. In other days that journey Avould have taken a Aveek to make, a number of animals Avould haA’e been injured in the ordinary course, and all would have lost Aveight.