LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 12 March 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Tlio body of William Dent, 53 years, was found in a ditch on a vacant section near his residence in Massey Street, Franktun, yesterday afternoon. Dent left his home a week before Christmas to go to the hospital and was never seen since.

The sub-committee of the Alasterton A. and P. Association appointed at last Wednesday’s meeting to go into the question of holding a horse sports meeting, met yesterday. It was unanimous]y decided to hold a horse sports meeting at Solway on Saturday, 2nd April. A good programme was drawn up and adopted. Given a fine day and support from the general public, the sports should be a notable success and add some money to the funds of the association.

In the final of the Wairarapa Croquet Association's champion of champions competition, played at the Haunui Club’s greens yesterday, Mr I. Saunders (Featherston) defeated Mrs Slater (Grevtown). The final of the C grade competition was played at Featherston yesterday, when Miss Lyford (Haunui) defeated Mrs Jenkins (Lansdow ne). The final of the B grade competition is being played at Featherston to-day between Airs Wilkinson (Lan-.do/. ne) and Mrs Murdoch '(Alasterton).

The Harvest Festival services will be held at the Masterton Methodist Church to-morrow. Bov. it. •). Liddell will preach in the morning, and a children's choir will lead the singing. Rev. E. O. Blamires will conduct the evening service. The church ciioir w ill sing- three harvest anthems. Miss D. O’Donnell will be the soloist, and Miss V. Blamires will play Handel’s Largo on the violin. The church will be suitably decorated and gifts of produce, etc., will be thankfully received today at the Sunday School. Thanksgiving offertories will be taken at each service. The Harvest Social is being arranged for Monday night at 7.30 o ’clock.

Visitors from all parts of the Wairarapa attended the seventh annual autumn show held by the St. Andrew s Horticultural Society at Alartinborougli on Thursday. The entries totalled 770. The judges reported that the quality of the exhibits was very good throughout. The dahlias formed a fine display, while the needlework exhibited was varied and of a high standard. The decorative work was also interesting and artistic. The champion dahlia, a specimen of Grace Curling, was exhibited by Airs W. H. Booth (Carterton) and the champion rose (W. H. Dirk son) was shown l»’ r Airs F. At. Bc\ - nolds. The best dahlia in the cottagers’ section was exhibited by Air Alaxted and the beet aster in the same section by Airs Lenz. The trophies were won as follow:—Alost points in show, Airs .T. Martin; most points classes 1 to r. Airs J. Martni: most points in out blooms, Airs F. AI. Reynolds: most points in cottagers’ class, Mrs Guy. Gillies; for apple pie, Airs Killrp.

The outstanding rates in connection with the Featlierston Borough Council amount to £229, as against £lll last year. “It is very hard to have to pay 2s per pound for cooked ham when the farmer could only get 2id for his pigs. 7 ’ —Mr T. E. Donovan, at Dargaville. Municipal taxes in Vienna seem hardly in accordance with the times, the one for domestic servants for instance, being so high that Baron Louis Rothschild is now saving some £IO,OOO a year bv cutting down Lis domestic staff. At the Solway Harvest concert Mrs Alt' Wise took part in two glee songs, sang a solo and recited. Her name was inadvertently omitted from the report of the Harvest Festival which appeared in yesterday’s paper. At the sitting of a court in a Canterbury town, the magistrate, after hearing cases of motor speeding, said: “It used to be said that licensing eases' were notorious for the number of lies told in the witness-box. Licensees, however, have now come to (he conclusion that it pays to tell the truth. J aja sorry to say that motor eases are putting licensing cases in the shade. 1 dare say it will be a number <>£ years before motorists learn the same lesson. ’ ’ *

The Masterton Branch of the League of Mothers will hold the first meeting of the year on Wednesday next, 16th March, at 2.30 p.m. Members and friends are to be the guests of Mrs L. B. Maunsell, the local president, at her home at “Bridge,” Titoki Street, Lansdowne. Mrs IT. R. iisher, of Wellington, who is well known as an authority on gardening, will give an address. All garden lovers, whether members or not, are invitecUto be present. Cars will leave the A.M.C.A. at 2.15 p.m.

The final shoot for the Championship was held by the Kaiparoro Ride Club on the Kaiparoro range on Saturday. This shoot also concluded Mr W Henson’s trophy which was started the week before. The trophy was won bv Rfm. R. Henson with a score of 222. Rfm. D. J. Dick was second with" 221. Rfm. -1. Dick won the Championship Cup with a total of 440 Rfm. K. Henson was the runner-up and won the Henson Rose Bowl with 437. Efm D. J. Dick won the Club Handicap Cup with 441 and Rfm. J. Dick was runner-up and won C. Dagg’s Cup with 440.

As the result of two raids conducted by the police in Wellington on Thursday morning in Haining and Taranaki Streets, two Chinese, Ngan Gow, gardener, aged 59, and Joe Young Chi, gardener, aged 27, and three T.uiopeans, Richard Francis Power, aged 44, George Steven Miller, aged 62, and William Henry Rodda, aged 50, appeared in the Police Court before Mi B. Page, S.M., yesterday morning. The two Chinese were fined £25 each and costs for keeping a common gaminghouse, and the three men who were found without lawful excuse on the premises when the police made the raid were each fined £l.

In connection with the Point Chevalier ptomaine poisoning Mr Dunn stated yesterday that the evening meal consisted of pickled pork and boiled tongue. He was satisfied that the poisoning was caused by the tongue, as be himself did not eat any of the pork. The family, lie said, did not purchase the tongue, as it was won by Mrs Dunn in a raffle at a croquet;club. It seemed perfectly fresh when it was oaten at teatime; and no one commented upon it at the time. When the remainder of the tongue from which the meal was made was examined six hours afterwards it was in a partly-decompos-ed condition.

At the luncheon of the Mastcrton Rotary Club this week, a particularly interesting ancl informative address on “ Furniture ’ 5 was delivered by Mi Wilbur Davies. Amongst other questions receiving the attention of the Rotary Club is that of unemployment amongst boys. In a discussion it was stated that not many boys appeared to Re unemployed in Mastcrton at present. It was considered inadvisable that boys should leave school unless to take up permanent employment. A permanent committee was set up to keep in touch with the question of employment for boys and to give any assistance that was possible.

Crashing several hundred feet down a steep hillside at about 0 o clock last evening, a five-seater motor-car ended up almost a complete wreck alongside the Main Trunk Railway line, a short distance north of the Hutt hoad railway bridge. Parts of the car broken off 'in the fall lay on the track, and the remainder of the wreck close by. A number plate which was found torn off corresponded with the number plate of a motor-car stolen from Petone not long before the smash occurred. As far as could be found out last evening, no one had been injured. the car’ veas one belonging to Mr X. C. Fox, a land agent, of Lower Hutt, who left it in Fitzherbert Street earlier in the evening.

At a meeting of directors of the Mairarnpa Caledonian Society Mr W. A. Madden, of Mastcrton, was appointed to the position of secretary, rendered vacant bv the transfer from Mastcrton to Dunedin of Mr I>. A. Macomish. Air Madden has always taken a keen and active interest in a number of local organisations, and at the present time is secretary of the Mastcrton Choral Society, the Mastcrton Collie Club, the Riverside Golf Club, the Wairarapa Lincoln Sheepbreeders ’ Association, the Mastcrton Dental Clinic Committed and the Mastcrton West School Committee. He was also secretary of the Winter Show Committee until that organisation went into recess. The Caledonian Society is to be congratulated upon the excellent selection it has made.

Men’s Flexile Shoes, in tan and black. All kinds to select from. Made in N.Z_ Now showing at Carpenter & Evans .

Squadron-Leader McGregor and Mr “Scotty” Fraser left Masterton for Wellington at 8210 o’clock this morning in a Spartan ’plane, ZK —ABZ.

Rev. E. W. Burgin, who has been vicar of the Pongaroa and Mangatainoka parishes for the past six years, has received notice of his transfer to the charge of the Mangaweka parochial district.

“Blending —What is it.'” asked Sir Janies Parr in the course of his remarks on the butter trade in England to the Rotary gathering at Dannevirke on Thursday night. Sir James said that about £14,000,000 was invested in blending companies in Britain, and the average blend was from live to 10 per cent, of New Zealand or Australian butter, 40 to 50 per cent, of Swedish or Argentine butter, and the balance cheap Russian butter. This mixture was then made up into pounds, in wrappers bearing some well-known English name, and customers coming in for butter thought they were getting the finest English article and cheerfully paid 2s (id per lb. for it, while the pure New Zealand article was selling at Is Jd! M was simply a commercial fraud and New Zealand mus suffering thereby.