LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 4 February 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A Dunedin telegram states that the directors of the Okarito Fernhill Gold Dredge Company have declared a dividend of 10 per cent., payable on February 17 th.

•Tho rainfall registered in the South Wairarapa for January was 2.16 inches, rain having fallen on ten days, with a maximum of .6S inches on tue sth. For the corresponding month last year, rain fell on 17 days for a total of 5.6 inches.

At the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday S. K. Biamwell, of Feilding, was charged with negligent driving on December 19, thereby causing the death of Valentine Hewitt. The presiding Justices stated that on the evidence adduced they did not hesitate to dismiss the information.

The heavy rain which fell early last evening interfered with the Masterton Amateur Athletic Club’s weekly meeting, which was held at tho Park Oval. Only three flat events were decided, resulting as follow: —/5 Yards. Mulvey 1, Vibert 2, Hack 3. One Mile.—Barrel1, Talbot 2, Hack 3. 220 Yards. —Hack 1, Vibert 2, Pye 3. In the Dunedin Supreme Court yesterday, James Kent Cabral, charged -with breaking and entering and stealing £B, was found guilty and remanded till Saturday for sentence. Cuthbert Earl McKcagg plealed guilty to receiving goods from a person unknown, knowing them to have been dishonestly obtained. Sentence will be passed on Saturday.

The closing date for entries, in the competitions being held by the Masterton Branch of the Women’s' Division has been extended until March 1. The competitions are in aid of the Division’s funds for housekeepers. Prizes are offered for the best article made from a sugar bag and a child’s cotton garment. All members are urged to send in entries, which will beeoiiiQ the property of the Division.

An unusual accident befel Mrs. 11. C. Trotman, of Greytown, on Tuesday. She was spending a holiday at Lake Ferry, and was lying on a couch under a window watching the sea when suddenly the window fell out, striking hexover the head. The shattered glass inflicted a severe incision on the face, and Dr. Webb, of Martinborough, was sent for. Mrs. Trotman was removed to tlio private hospital in Martinborough and later returned to her home. She is still weak and suffering from shock, but is progressing steadily.

The Chinese boycott of all things Japanese has extended to the Wellington fruit and produce markets. On Monday a consignment of several hundreds of boxes of oranges and mandarins was brought direct from Japan in the motor ship Brisbane Manx. The oranges arc said to be of very good quality, but when they were offered at auction on Tuesday and again yesterday, the Chinese fruiterers refused to bid for them on any account. A few boxes were sold to other fruiterers, but the Chinese boycott was rigidly maintained. It is stated that in recent months the Chinese in Wellington have refused to buy Japanese onions.

Evicted two days ago from the house which had been hie and his wife Is home for many years, a poultry farmer in the Ricc-arton district (.says the Christchurch Times) has guarded his furniture in the roadway ever since. Both night and day ho has remained near the hedge alongside which the furniture is stacked. His wife is staying with friends. The man is about 60 years of age and has no family. The man’s plight has engendered a good deal of sympathy from residents of the district, and he has been offered an old house for the storage of the furniture which he has so closely guarded. It is understood that he appealed to the Supreme Court under the Mortgagors’ Relief Act when he found that he could not meet his interest payments on the farm, but that his appeal was unsuccessful, and as a result he had to leave h's home. His furniture was removed from the house and deposited in the roadway, where it has remained for two days.

The Wairarapa P. and A. Society received over twenty applications for the position of caretaker to tho Carterton Showgrounds. Mr. James Marsh has been appointed to the position. No fewer than 130 applications have been received for the position of assistant town clerk at Palmerston North, for which a salary of £4OO per year is being offered. The South Wairarapa River Board has decided to forward an objection to the Minister of Internal Affairs in regard to the petition of certain ratepayers who are seeking to secede as ratepayers to the board.

At tho Auckland Supreme Court yesterday no bill was returned by the Grand Jury in the case of Alexander Burnett Charters, charged with false pretences and forgery of accounts at Whangarei.

The Featherston Athletic Club lias decided to advise the Sub-Centre that the club intends to hold its sports meeting on the date applied for, viz., March sth., and also to protest against Mauriceville holding its meeting on that date.

It was stated at the meeting of the Wanganui Education Board that some parents would not allow their children to receive instruction in swimming at school. Mr. J. S. Tingcy (Feilding) said that it was a mystery to him. It was most extraordinary, when the greatest number of summer deaths were from drowning. The acting chairman (Mr. E. F. Hemingway) thought that most people who refused to learn to swim were not alive to their own interests. Tho Farmers’ Union Executive at Wellington yesterday passed a resolution urging that the court to which mortgage adjustment commissions make recommendations should have power to make reductions in principal as well as interest. A reduction of interest for a year or two was not sufficient, said Mr Poison, for the man who had a mountain of debt ahead of him. If there was a possibility of a reduction of principal, the farmer who lived on the land and could turn to nothing else would have renewed hope and courage to go ahead and get on with the job of production.

The first meeting of the National Expenditure (Economy) Commission was held yesterday. Members generally discussed tho order of reference and the procedure to be adopted. The Commission is required to submit an interim report not later than March Ist, and it would manifestly be impossible for it to hear in person all those desirous of giving evidence on the various phases of the problem under consideration. The Commission will consider representations in writing from interested organisations and individuals. Very little work was done on the C. and D. Line motor-ship Port Fremantle yesterday morning. At 8 a.m. the watersiders again refused to handle the damaged cargo. The Disputes Committee met during the morning, and an agreement was reached on the disputed rates of pay. Tho remainder of the damaged cargo was unloaded, and early in the afternoon loading operations were commenced. The vessel is still expected to leave Wellington on Saturday afternoon for London via Cape Horn and Dakar.

Following an address by Mr A. C. Davidson, General Manager of the Bank of New South Wales, to the Farmers’ Union Executive at Wellington yesterday on the exchange question the executive adopted Mr W. J. Poison’s motion: “That the executive supports and endorses the action of the Farmers’ Exchange Committee in demanding free exchange, and places itself behind the organisation in anything it may do towards that end.” A motion that award wages in New Zealand should be varied at regular periods according to the rise or fall in the cost of living figures as operating in Australia was deferred for further information.

Information has been received from London that, with the approval of His Majesty the King and H.R.H. the President, the title of the Associated Board R.A.M. and B.C.M. has been changed to “The Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, London.” The original title has been in use since the formation of the Associated Board, in the year 1899, and the change, which was foreshadowed by Sir Hugh Allen when he visited New Zealand in 1930, is made for the sake of convenience; the original title being so unweildv, even when reduced to initials, as used by licentiates.

The results of the weekly swimming events of the Carterton Amateur Swimming Club are as follows: —25 yards, boys, A. Lawrence 1, F. Quigg 2, D. Thompson 3. 25 yards, girls: L. Taplin 1, M. Herdman 2, M. Lawrence 3. 25 yards, scratch race: H. Trapp 1, C. Wiseley 2, D. Irwin 3. 75 yards, ladies: F. Good 1, G. Stringer 2, Z. Workman 3. Boys’ dive: F. Quigg 1, G. Corlett 2, D. Thompson 3. Ladies’ dive: M. Lawrence 1, Z. Workman 2, G. Stringer and M. Herdman, tie, 3. 100 yards, men: R. Lawrence 1, H. Trapp 2, L. Fail-brother 3. Plunge: D. Irwin 1, I?. Lawrence 2, 11. Trapp 3. 75 yards, intermediate: R. Lawrence 1, A. Boydhouse 2.

A meeting of the directors of the Workmen’s Friend No. 1 Building Society was held last night, there being present: Messrs. F. J. Ilunn (in the chair), K. E. Jones, T. B. Braggins, A. V. Dixon, T. Jenkins, W. Kemp and E. J. Brown. Apologies for absence were received from Messrs. O’Leary and Jackson. The finance report was submitted. It was decided to appropriate £450 by sale and £3OO by ballot at the annual meeting on February 22nd. No. 2 Society: The same directors were present at a meeting of the No. 2 Society. The financial report was submitted. It was decided to hold the annual meeting on March 30th and the next directors’ meeting on February 22iul, after the annual meeting of the No. 1 Society.

At the annual meeting of the Fahia-tua-Makuri Dog Trial Association, officers were elected as follows for the ensuing year:—Patron, Mr. A. D. Lglinton; president, Mr. J. Gibson; vice-pre-sidents, Messrs. W. D. Taylor, E. L. Harvey, W. Herbert, J. Shekleton, H. Whitta, G. A. Vincent, J. F. Boyle, A. McAleer, T. Devoy, F. Moore, W. G. Bundle, C. S. Cecil, J. E. Murphy, P. A. Bisset, 11. Eglinton, F. Waring, -J. Byrne, A. S. Clnlow, R. Thompson; secretary, Mr. S. K. Siddells; executive committee, president, secretary, Messrs. P. A. Bisset, T. Jones, A. W. Bisset, A. Cleghorn, F. E. Ward and W r . Corkill; ground marshal, Mr. F. E. Ward; judge, Mr. C. Hay, Mastorton (second choice, Mr. 0. Bigger, Havelock North), timekeeper, Mr. C, Layscn.

Comparisons between Trafalgar and Jutland were discussed by Rear-Admiral Gordon Campbell, Y.C., M.l’., in an address to the lOlil Club in London recently. Admiral Campbell said that he realised that at the time the Battle of Jutland was a disappointment to a large number of people, and it had been asked whether if Nelson had been at Jutland things would have been different. But comparison between Trafalgar and Jutland was hardly fair. Nelson had time to call his captains together on board his flagship to discuss plans when the enemy hove in sight. Moreover, if Trafalgar had been lost, Britain had still another fleet in the Channel. If Jutland had been lost, there .would have been nothing to stop the German Navy invading America and taking the world. A baby alligator was one of the hundreds of souvenirs presented to Mr Sydney W. Pascal!, president of the Rotary International, on a recent !•>,- OOU-mile tour of America. Mr Pascall is the first international president to be elected from the European side of the Atlantic. Of his twenty predecessors in this office, eighteen have been Americans and two Canadians. '‘l was treated like a reigning monarch,” Mr Pascall said, “and eacii Rotary Club 1 went to gave mo something to rein cmber them by —rings, quilts, cigarette cases and note eases, but the nicest piesent- of all was one they gave me at West Palm Beach, Florida —a telephone call to my wife at home in England. The call was through in just twelve minutes. ’ ’ On New I ear s Day Mi Pascall left Southampton for a tour round the world. He will travel JO,OOO miles.

The first American to be admitted to the Mahatma Gandhi’s " Asham, or model colony, conducted for fuitheiing the independence of India, is Nilla Cram Cook, who has turned her back on all the pleasures of the world at twenty-one years of age to renounce what she describes as “ this worldly life, which is absolute illusion.” Miss Cook has been preparing for her life with Gandhi during the last two years by spending that period in a convent. She is a daughter of the late George Cram Cook, American poet and playwright. Miss Cook will have Miss Madeleine Slade, the Mahatma’s English attendant and disciple, as a companion in her strange life. An expert linguist in Indo-Aryan and other Oriental tongues, which she speaks as fluently as English, Miss Cook is the personification of wlia-t is known as a highly educated girl. But her attributes do not stop at knowledge. She is a girl of striking beauty. While Miss Cook’s father embraced some of the modern diversions, such as marriage with three different women, it is believed possible that his daughter acquired some of her tastes from him, for he died among the shepherds of Mount Parnassus in Greece.