LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

Only 11 teachers in the Wellington Education Board’s district are at present out of employment, it was reported. at yesterday’s meeting of the board.

It is declared in London, that the gearless car invented by Mr Reward fioobs, of Adelaide, South Australia, promises to revitiUXionise •motor transport.

Sunday games are not allowed ou areas owned or controlled iby the Wellington Education Board. At yesterday s board meeting Mr J. J. Clark moVed that the by-law on tins po.ui siiouid .bo rescinded and replaced by a by-law containing a proviso mat sunuay play might bo permitted by a resolution of the school committee concerned. The proposal was lost by 8 votes to 6. Mr Clark said that tiic by,aw was being broken on every Sunday. it was decided that tlio ‘by-law no enforced.

The murder of the Hindu, Nana Chaiba, at ltawera, m January of last year is recaucd in a pciitiou presented to Parliament yesuiday by Wader John Tinsley, a baker, of masterioii. Tinsley was arrested and charged with murder but the Grand. Jury at Aew Plymouth 'brought in ‘‘no bill” against him and he was discharged by tin; Judge. The petition sets out tne expense Tinsley was put to to prepare li.s defence and enumerated disadvantages which, he alleged he now has to put up with. Tinsley petitions for £2OOO by wav of compensation for alleged wrongful arrest and imprisonment.

The monthly meeting of the League of Mothers was held in the Parish Hall yesterday afternoon. There was a very good attendance. The president, Mrs J. Miller, presided. Pour new members were welcomed. The speaker lor the afternoon was Ur. F. M. Wpcncer, of Wellington, who took lor Ins subject “Habit Training in Children.-’ He stressed the importance of early habits of obedience and independence and illustrated his address with seveial up propriate stories. Hr. Bpcneor was listened to with much interest and was accorded a hearty vote of thanks. The hostesses were Mesdames & trouts, Gill, 11. Beckham, Mawley and R. E. Maunsell.

The ‘‘Now Zealand Illustrated” tor 1932, published by tue Christchuich I'K'SS Company, Limited, has again attained a hign level of artistic meritA notable feature of the production is that the illustrations include two duotones, a process of combination printing which enhances the photographic values by means of tints which tone in with the subject. All of the photographs reproduced are of such- high quality that it is difficult to single out any of them for special mention, it is enough to say that all of them help in making ‘‘New Zealand illustuatcd truly a thing of beauty and a triumph of pictorial art.

At its meeting on Monday night, the Urey town .Borough Council received a letter from the Cricket Club asking for permission to piay oil the ALemorial r'ark on Sundays. The letter pointed out that it was not proposed to play during Church hours, and also that no liquor would be allowed on the "•rounds. A motion that the application be not granted was lost. Notice of motion was given that no sports bo allowed in the Park on (Sundays. The Council having decided not to object to ‘Sunday cricket on the i'ark tlw Cricket Ciub appears to be quite within its rights to engage in p-ay on .Sunday just so long as it is notified by resolution of the Council to desist. There seems a probability, however, that the motion to slop all play oil Sun da vs will be cacned.

At a meeting of telephone subscribers at Longbush the question of the burden of telephone costs was discussed from every angle. The Department’s action in giving robot to- some of the subscribers was adversely criticised as being very unfair, the following lc solutions were carried unanimously: That just prior to the telephone rent being due in -March next a meeting of subscribers be called to consider the taking of drastic and untanimous action to rid ourselves of this oppressive burden if no relief is granted or the position of producers has not considerably improved. That a petition for lower charges be sent to the Member for the District with the request that he take up the matter of the high cost of telephone service with the Department; interested. That the Wairarapa Farmers’ Union executive be asked to press for the reduction of telephone costs.

The Alethodis-t Ladies’ Guild v,’ill held a Christmas Lair in the schoolroom on dOtli November. Although she has left her 9-lth birtliday behind, a pensioner who lives in Russell's Flat, Canterbury, walks seven miles to the post office each mouth in order to collect her pension. A total of 2727 cows were tested by the Poverty Bay Group Herd Testing Associaition last month, compared with ISIG cows in September last year. Babe ltntli, the American baseball player, who diraws a salary of £15,000 a year from the Yankees Club, has announced his retirement from the game owing to a weak heart. New Zealand is the largest exporter of dairy produce' in the world. Denmark is the largest exporter of butter, but concentrates on it, whereas New Zealand divides her attention between butter and cheese. There exists at the present time a shortage of single men for farm labour. This position was disclosed at a meeting of tlip Egm-out County Council, when it was stated that a fanner who had recently advertised for a single man to work on his farm had received not one reply. The Wellington Mortgagors’ Adjustment Commission which has been sitting at the Mas'tertou Courthouse during the past two days continued its sitting this morning. It is anticix>ated that the business here will be disposed of to-night. The Commissioners are Messrs H. Maclntyre (Feilding), chairman, K. Dalrymple and A. McDonald. Speaking at a garden party at Claudelands show grounds, on the occasion of the function tendered him to mark his retirement from the managing directorship of the New Zealand Cooperative! Dairy Company, Limited, Mr W. Goodfellow commented that he considered it reasonable to anticipate that the United States would, after the election, accept a small cash payment in final settlement of war debts.

‘‘ I cannot emphasise too strongly that it is our bounden duty not to consumo needlessly our valuable and ull-too-scanty deposits of coal,” said Dr. J. Henderson, of the Department of Geological Survey in an address to the Wellington Philosophical Society last evening. Dr. Henderson said a serious objection to the use of coal in the production of electricity was that New Zealand’s supplies were decidedly small. They had been estimated to be sufficient* for about 100 years if the consumption expanded at a certain mo-dei-ate rate as population grew.

Emphasising that the Arapun-i hydroelectric scheme was under active consideration and investigation for five years before its adoption by the Government, Mr F. W. Purkert, Chief Engineer of the Public Works Department, answered criticisms of the Arapuni policy in an address to the Technological Section of the Wellington Philosophical Society last evening. ‘‘lt makes me lose mV temper when I hear sturoinoiiiD to the effect that we rushed bull-headed into this thing,” said Mr Furkert-. “An opinion seems to be prevalent that Arapuni was started as a sort of political business, or with a hep, step an! a jump. That’s all bunk.”

At a meeting of tjie settlers of To Ore Ore it was unanimously decided to form a tennis club to be known as the Te Ore Ore- Club. The following officers were elected:-—Patron, Mr .M. W. Lee; president, Air G. Lee; vice-presi-dents, Alc-ssrs W. Percy, J. McDonald, B. Cooper, F. E. Wells, G. Shaw, I. Ingley and W. McGovern; secretary and -treasurer, Mr F. Candy; committee, Messrs R. Morris, D. Thompson, Airs R. To Tau and Miss A. Simpson. Mr D. Costello was appointed ladder steward. The subscriptions fox this season are to be: Men, 12/li; ladies, 10s; junior members, 10s and 7/G. Mr Einain lias offered his services to the club and it is hoped that many of the members will make good use of the opportunity. At present the two courts are being prepared and the opening will take place in about three weeks’ time. Tiie committee has arranged to hold a dance in the school on Alonday night in aid of the Tennis Club funds.