LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 11 May 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The weekly Old Time Dance will be held in the Orange Hall on Thursday night. The Flirtation Waltz and Maxima are to be the features of the programme. Exceptionally good prizes are offered for the Monte Carlo. The music, floor and supper will all be as usual.

A petition from ratepayers served by. the 'i'e Ore Ore water race was presented to the Masterton County Council yesterday afternoon asking that Mr E. Dodd be reinstated in liis position as caretaker. After considering the matter, the council decided to invite applications for the position. At the meeting yesterday afternoon of tho Masterton County Council a resolution passed by way of special order authorising the raising of a special loan of £IUOO was continued. Arrangements for the raising'of the loan have 1 ! been completed and the money will be paid to the Public Works Department as the balance of the county's contribution towards the cost of the construction of the Devil's Elbow devia* tion. The lion, secretary of the Wairarapa R.S.A. (Mr A. E. Prentice) desires to acknowledge the receipt of the following amounts in connection with the recent Poppy Day appeal: —lan Cameron, Mauriceville, £1; Mrs T. Jordan, Masterton, £126 2s lOd; L. IS. Nicol, Masterton, £6 3s; S. J. Clarke, Kopuaranga, £1 18s 6d; Mrs H. T. Rees, Greytown, £10; IK. P. Wakelin, Carterton, £27 os; 'Rev. J. C. Abbott, Tinui, £4 ss; Rev. Abbott, Tinui (church collection), £4 12s lid; Miss H. Card, Featlierston, £2l 11s; Mrs W. 13. Martin per N. 'O, D. Via son, Alartinborougli, £2l 14s 6d; total, £224 12s 9d. The amounts exceeds by £l4 5s 3d that received in response to last year's appeal and represents the sale of 4493 poppies at Is each.

The opening shoot of the Masterton Miniature Rifle Club was held last night when about 40 members took part. Considering it was iiie lirst shoot of the season shooting was fairly good. T. (Sutherland, 13. Hummers and H. King each returned cards with 69 each. Toe best scores among the ladies was Mi»s Cotter with 68, ioilowed by Miss E. Oakiy and Miss Lois Peaiaon with 66 each. The following are the top scorers, •conditions 7 snots, possible 70:—Men: T. Sutherland, a. summers, H. King, 69; M. Oakiy, R, Wellington, J. McKenzie, 68; E. vvrigley, P. Russell, 67; H. Hill, J. Sumer.and, 66. Ladies: Misses -iS. Cotter, 68; E, Oakiy, L. Pearson, 66; O. Cave, 62; Airs King, 61; Alisses Oliphant, A. Leech, Af. Uakly, 60. Mr L. Pearson has kindly donated a trophy for the first lady member to score a seven or ten bull possible. The next shoot will be to-morrow" night. Now Zealand’s most historic spot, Waitangi, where the Treaty of \vaitangi was signed, together with a thousand acres of laud ueiongmg to the estate of which it forms a part lias been purchased by Lord and Lady Bledisloe and presented to tne nation. The Treaty of Waitangi was signed ninety-two years ago by Governor nobson on behalf of Queen Victoria and leading Afaori chiefs. It not only established British sovereignly in New Zealand but safeguarded lor all time the rights and privileges of the Maori race. The property, which includes the old British Residency, will be administered by a National Trust, of which Lord and Lady Bladisloe wnl be members. It is hoped to restore the residency building, which has laden into disrepair. In a letter to the Prime Minister, Lord Bledisloe says: "I trust, the gift may be accepted as a humble token of our sincere appreciation of the friendly kindness we have everywhere experienced from all classes of tho warm-hearted New Zealand people since it has been our happy lot to sojourn amongst them.”

A Presbyterian Church service will be held at Wangaehu on Sunday, 15th Alav, at 2.30 p.m.

Although only four months of the year have gene, the rainfall for 1932 at Gisborne to date aggregates no less than 24.47 in., or only 1.36 in. less than tho total for the whole of last year.

During last month the Masterton County Council expended a sum of £9l l 19s 3d on unemployment wages. The total expenditure since tho beginning of the current financial year amounted to £1904 14s 3d.

The following resolution was carried unanimously at a meeting of the Wellington Presbytery last evening: That the Presbytery views with great concern the inadequate provision for unemployed women, and seeing that such women are brought within the Act, so far as their contributions are concerned, they suould be eligible to be brought under the provisions of the Act, so far as relief is concerned.

The following, tenders were accepted at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council:—-Quarrying and loading of 275 cubic yards of limestone at the pit on the Kaka Amu 'Road, D. H. Wallace; carting and delivering 275 cubic yards of limestone on to tho Kaka Amu Road, O. S'hute; carting and delivering 875 cubic yards of screened gravel on to the Waingawa to Camp and other roads, Wairarapa Carriers’ Association.

‘•The time was rapidly arriving when those who were on relief and those who were giving relief would be on a common plane,” stated Air W. T. Strand, Alayor of Lower Hutt, at a •meeting of the Lower Ilutt Borough Council, when it was reported that there were 500 unemployed in the district. ‘‘The burden of taxation was so heavy that it was rapidly carrying men to the same position as those getting relief.”

‘‘l have seen Power Board vehicles going like racing cars, and it is no wonder that we don’t get the length of service from them that we should,” said All- P. G. Guy when the Alana-watu-Oroua Power Board was discussing the condition of its motor vehicles. ‘‘Notification has been given to the staff,” replied the chairman (Mr J. A. Nash, ALP.), ‘‘that if they are found driving the board’s vehicles at an excessive speed, their services will be dispensed with.” The Prime Alinister’s references in Parliament associating the local teachers with the Post and Telegraph Employees’ Association’s boycott of certain firms in the Thames district who had refused to sign a petition protesting against the salaries and wages reductions, have since been investigated by the executive of the New Zealand Educational Institute. The result of its inquiries has been conveyed to Mr Forbes in a letter conveying ‘‘definite assurance” that the Thames branch of the institute, “so far from joining in such a movement, has not even discussed it, or had a meeting at which it could have been discussed.” The second prize ticket of £SOO in the “Happy Days” art union, credited to “P. J. O’B., Masterton,” is held by Air James O’Brien, of Messrs. O’Brien Bros., butchers, of Pahiatua. Air O’Brien has been suffering from illhealtli for the past 12 months and has been away recuperating. A few weeks ago lie was staying with friends in Masterton and bought a ticket from a street seller, signing it as stated above. On Sunday lie heard a rumour that he had won a prize in the art union, but it was not until Alonday morning that he discovered the extent of his good fortune. He is a married man with one child, and resides in Huxley Street, Pahiatua.

Speaking to a deputation of local unemployed yesterday afternoon, Or. W. I. Armstrong, chairman of the Aiasterton County Council, promised that his council would take up at once with the Minister of Employmeit (the Rt. Hon. J. G. Coates) the question of the new relief scale not being instituted yet in this district, though he understood that it was being put into operation in the main centres. The people of this district contributed their full share of unemployment taxation and were entitled to ihe same consideration as those of other districts. Air Armstrong said that lie and his fellow members were fu.ly alive to the hardships entailed by the “stand-down” week.

Several matters affecting the welfare of unemployed relief workers were discussed by a deputation from the ; Unemployed Self Help Club which waited on the Masterton County Council at its meetiig yesterday. The deputation was given a sympathetic hearing and was assured by the chairman of the county, 'Councillor W. I. Armstrong, that the points raised would receive favourable consideration. The deputation’s chief request was that relief workers under the county’s control who finished work on Friday or on Saturday morning should be paid on Saturday. The hardships entailed by the unemployed having to go over the week-end without being paid were stressed bv members of the deputation, who also urged the council to take a humane and not a business view of the position, it was pointed out that it was not the men who suffered, but their wives and families. After a lengthy discussion, the chairman said that the county could not alter the decision not to pay men on Saturday morning, but would favourably consider a suggestion by a member of the deputation that Saturday be made the first working day of the week, and Friday the last. This would allow the men to be paid on Saturday without any great difficulty to the council staff. Other matters referred to by the deputation and which will be considered by tho council were hours of starting work, the matter of dismissals, and the question of working for • private people under county control.

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At the billiards and snooker competition this week a game will be played between Post Office and Oddfellows. Later the Y.M.C.A. will meet C. E. Daniell and Co., and the W.F.C.A. will meet the Catholic Club. In addition to these six clubs, the Druids have also entered a team, and it is anticipated that other teams will enter within the course of a few days.