LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 24 December 1932, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The ‘‘ Wairarapa Daily Times.*’ will not lie published on Monday next, Boxing Day, hut will ho published on Tuesday, 27th December.

Over .jSO entries have been received for the Martin-borough Lawn Tennis ■Club’s annual tournament, which will commence on Boxing Day and continue over the three following days. Late entries will, it is anticipated, bring the total up to 600, which number compares very favourably with the entry for previous tournaments. Wellington, .Manawatu and Hawke’s Bay players, in addition to prominent Wairarapa players, will compete. The fourth annual congress of the Xew Zealand Esperanto Association is to be held in Masterton next week. The congress will take place in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms, starting on Tuesday and continuing on Wednesday and Tlnursday. Air G. R. Sykes will officially open the proceedings on Tuesday at 2 p.m. and later in the afternoon the annual meeting of the association will be held. The- evening will be devoted to a social entertainment, at which Mr W. IT. King, secretary of the Xew Zealand Esperanto Association will give a short address and members of the Masterton Club will present a sketch in Esperanto. A programme of musical items has been arranged and after supper dancing will take place.

Over £2OO is being paid out this week-end in Greytown to relief workers. This represents payment for two weeks in advance in which they will not work.

An okt-time and modern dance will be held in the Galaxy, Carterton, on Monday night. Kirk’s Orchestra will supply the music and a bus will leave tho Post Office at S p.m.

Peaches and apricots grown at Alexandra and Roxburgh have come to the Dunedin market quickly this season, and these first fruits are well formed and properly ripened.

A dance will be held in St. Patrick's Assembly Hall on Monday night. The music will bo supplied by Minilie’s Orchestra. Modern and old-time dances will be included on the programme from S p.m, till 1.30 a.m. A protest against the painting of two large advertising signs upon the inward goods shed adjoining the Auckland railway station has been telegraphed to the Railway Board by the Mayor of Auckland, Mr G. W. Hutchison,

Air Wilfrid Kingsford Smith will shortly be in Mastertou to make arrangements for the visit of Sir C. Kingsford Smith to this district. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith will probably visit Masterton on Thursday, 26th .January. He will spend the day here and will probably be entertained at an informal function.

Agricultural produce sold from farms in England and Wales in 1030-3.1 was valued at £167,400,000 This was a drop of £18,830,000 on the previous year. Great Britain is now exporting tinned peas, loganberries and strawberries. In respect of the latter fruit, Great Britain is now ahead of the Americans.

The opinion was expressed by Cr. Horton at the monthly meeting of the ■'Greytown Borough Council that the Council should pay its employees weekly. 110 said that if the Government local authorities and employers generally adopted the weekly pay system not nearly as much credit would he asked for, and the more frequent circulation of cash would tend 1 to stimulate trade.

During the Sunday evening service, at St. Matthew’s Church to-morrow four well-known Christmas carols will be sung and the congregation will be asked to join in the singing. Mrs Ron Cowie of Wellington will sing “O Di-. vine .Redeemer” by Gounod. Mr Con. Wood, a well-known music teacher, of, Wellington, and formerly of Masterton, will sing “But Who May Abide" from Handel’s ‘ ‘ Messiah. ’ ’

Advantages accruing to Wellington as a result of the presence of the Jubilee Floating Dock were discussed yesterday by Mr C. J. B. Norwood, chairman of the Wellington Harbour Board. Mr Norwood pointed out that the dock had been the direct cause of quite a large sum of money being spent in the city no materials and service. Already many thousands had been spent in Wellington by the shipping companies, but were it not for the dock that money would have gone elsewhere.

To-morrow Christmas services will be held in all tho Methodist Churches at Masterton. Rev. W. Barker will conduct the Christmas morning service at 11 o’clock. At 7 p.m. Rev. J. W. Burton, ALA., President, of the Conference in Sydney, N.S.W., will be the special preacher. At Kuripuni Rev. E. O. Blamires will preach in the morning and at night Rev. W. Parker will be assisted in the service with special Christmas music, rendered by the choir. At Solway, where Air F. C. Rutter will conduct a Christmas service at 7 p.m., the singing of Christmas carols will be a special feature, and a. retiring offertory will be taken for the Children’s Home.

Airs S. Fletcher, president of the Women’s National Welfare League, wishes to acknowledge with thanks the receipt of toys and 5s 6d in cash from the boys of tho. Masterton Technical School. The toys have been distributed to those children who were not entitled to attend the Self Help Christmas Tree function and the money has been expended in making jam for Air Bate’s boys’ camp at Tauherenikau. Special thanks are due to Alessrs O. H. E. A T ates and A. Drew, of the Technical School staff, for their assistance. The little ones to whom the toys were given received them with every indication of delight.

As the result of an accidental fall from his motor cycle, a young man named William Dodd, of Karnri, Wellington, received head injuries early yesterday afternoon in High street and was admitted to hospital. It appears that together with a companion. Dodd set out that morning on a. tour of Hawke’s Bay. Tlis companion got ahead of him when nearing Masterton and on reaching town awaited his friend’s arrival. As he did not appear lie returned and found him lying on the roadway, having apparently fallen from his machine, ft. appeared that the brake on the back wheel or bearings had seized, causing the machine to stop abruptly and throw the rider off. Dodd was in a semi-conscious state when found and was removed to hospital. His condition, however, was not serious.

Misfortune overtook the Wairarapa Aero Club's 'plane ZK- —ABE. when it made a forced landing at the seaward end of the Orongorongo \ alley early last evening. Travelling alone, FlyingOfficer .1. M. Buckeridge was on his way from Masterton to Wellington, whence he was to proceed to Palmerston North, to carry the Christmas air mail from that town to Jnvercargiil to-day. On account of thick and hazy weather, Flying-Officer Buckeridge chose the coastal route. All went well until he reached the Oiamgorongo Valley. There, it is stated, engine trouble compelled him. at -7 p.m., to make a forced landing. He a-lighted on a small plateau on Air Eric Riddiford's property. The machine suffered some structural damage, but. Flying-Officer Buckeridge escaped injury. It was reported to the local aerodrome last night from Wellington that. .'arrangements had been made to carry on with the air mail flights, but details of the new arrangements were not given. The president of the W'airarnpa Aero Club, Air W . L. Free, states that he thinks it probable that FlyingOfficer Buckeridge will canny mails to Invercargill to-day in the club’s other machine, ZK —A CD. Originally one of the club's machines was to have made, a mail (light, from Palmerston North to Auckland and the other was to have taken mails from Palmerston North to Invercargill. According to tho Wellington report mentioned. ZK—ABE was not seriously damaged.

Air T. Jordan desires to acknowledge the donation of a sheep towards the Alavor’s unemployment relief fund. The condition of most of the dairy herds in the Pahiatua district at the present time is very line. The pastures are luxuriant, and the whole countryside is a picture. Less than three hours after he was placed in the cabin of the Auckland Aero Club’s Puss Aloth at Gisborne, a farmer who was seriously ill was admitted to an Auckland private hospital. Ho was Air George Witters, aged 56, of Woodlands. An application by two men for a license to carry out prospecting on the foreshore at Takapuna was before a meeting of tho Auckland Harbour Board this week. Both the liabourmaster and engineer reported unfavourably and the board decided to instruct its solicitors to oppose the application. During a cricket match at the Auckland Domain on Saturday last a batsman stepped out to make a stroke. He lost possession of bis bat, which struck tho face of a fieldsman standing close in at square leg. Obviously it was a painful blow, but the victim quickly recovered from the shock, waved aside those who had run to his assistance, and carried on with the game.

There has been a good deal of haymaking in the Masterton district during the splendid weather which has been experienced, but many crops will probably not be cut till after Christmas. It is anticipated that more hay will be cut in Alasterton this year than has been the case for a long period.

Tho price of gold in London yesterday was £6/3/11. The dust nuisance on farms next the llamilton-Ngaruawahia. section of the main road is so bad that settlers cutting their hay can go only once round their paddocks with mowing machines before having the knives resharpened, stated a member of the Waipa County Council at a meeting of the council on Monday. “The dust is worse than a fog,” .remarked another member.

A demonstration of neighbourly helpfulness has been given by a party of Alakauri farmers near Gisborne, who assembled to give assistance to a settler who has been ill and whose large maize paddock of sixty a eyes was still unsown. His friends mobilised their horses, discs and .rollers, and, with 40 horses, working eight to ten teams, the ground was prepared and the crop planted in three days. In the Bowes Park (North London) News of 28,th October, appears the following—“ The splendid show made by the New Zealand Government at the Alexandra. Palace Exhibition caused many people to ask at the local shops for New Zealand cheese and butter. . . . For the moment it seems that New Zealand is the only Dominion pushing and patriotic enough to bid for North London goodwill, and that enterprise deserves encouragement, and should be an example to others.” “The blackbird is responsible for an enormous amount of damage in the country,” said Air B. T. Booker, at a meeting of the Manukau County Council. “There will have to be an extensive campaign to exterminate the bird,” he added. He said that on a large area growing strawberry plants this season, insufficient berries had been gathered to provide a meal, owing to the depredations of blackbirds. Reviewing the accents s>f Dalgety and Co., Ltd., at the annual meeting in London on 17th November, the chairman of directors, the Hon. Edmund AV. Parker, said the dividend of 5 per cent, for the year had not been earned, but had been provided out of reserves. “After all,” said Air Parker, “that is one of the functions of reserves' —they are made in good times for use. in bad times.”

The remarkable scarcity of small i change among passengers- in tramcars on Sundays was commented ujion by an Auckland conductor to -whom a two-shilling pieee was tendered for a two penny ride the other evening. The conductor said ho received a. surprisingly largo number of florins and halfcrowns on Sundays, probably because most people when changing their clothes neglected to transfer their pennies and other small money. An alternative possibility was that all the small change had been given at church. A boiling mud hole, about 20ft. by I.3ft. and 20ft. deep, situated on the banks of the Puarenga Stream, opposite the model village at Whakarewarewa. blew out on Tuesday, a quantity of boiling mud and steam being shot to a. height of about 25ft. At this spot there is a series of boiling mud boles, and it is considered unsafe to approach them unless accompanied by a guide. There was nothing unusual in the occurrence, as in dry weather such as is being experienced at present the mud on the top of the holes becomes very hard and the steam below causes a blow-out. Considerable interest has been m oused among Christchurch horticulturists in a new species of lily grown bv Milt. Christensen, gardener for Mr 1-1. F. Stead, of “Ham.” The flower is a cross between Lilium Regale and Liliurn Chaleedonieum, or “Turk’s Cap.” The seedling is almost pure white, with it. creamy-yellow thro,-it, and its size is mid-way between that of the two parents. The chief interest centres in the tact that the flower is much more graceful than either parent, and is considerably more slender. A bright future is predicted for the lily, which will be srnt to England for the opinion of the Lily Committee of the lioyal Horticultural Society, where its salient features, including the lack of dark foliage, will 1.-.0 noted and reported upon.

“The love of outdoor life and animals is innate to many, and, given suitaide opportunity, will provide all the farmers New Zealand requires. High values of land, low value of produce, lack of capital for developing the poorer lands —all these are oppressing the farmer at present. But these conditions are not peculiar to New Zealand. They are worse in many other countries. Nor are they difficulties of over-production. In a world in which there are millions of unemployed, living from hand to mouth, it is impossible to say there is over-production until we have at least given the- consumers the opportunity to consume. Our difficulties are difficulties of credit, distribution and lack of world statesmanship. They are difficulties that call for endurance and endeavour. Few countries are so favoured.” —Mr It. C. Clark, M.A., principal of Wesley College, Paerata, at the breaking-up ceremony. Men’** Shoes, in Black and Brown, all kinS* to select from, at Carpenter and Evans’ Quality Shoe Store. *

Mr A. K. Bate desires, to acknowledge the following donations towards the boys’ camp fund:—Miss Maunsell os, Mrs 8. L. P. Free 10s; Mrs 'Cocker, jam; Airs Alexander, cake. The usual weekly dance will be held at the Galaxy, Carterton, to-night, and in order to cater for all dance lovers there will be some modern dances on the programme. A bus will leave Masterton P.O. at S o’clock.

Recently a tally was taken of the motor traffic, on the roads in the Wairarapa. On the Featherston-Carterton road, out of close on 300 vehicles, no less than one in every nine was a Government car.

Despite the uncertain weather, there was a large influx of shoppers into town this morning and afternoon. As the shops remain open until 10 o’clock tonight there is likely to be an exceedingly large crowd in town. A Sydney cable states that Mr W. M. Hughes, who returned to Sydney

on Thursday from a visit to Ottawa and Britain, broke his ankle a few hours later through falling across a garage well, from which lie was not aware that the cover had been removed.

Mr John Edmond, of Surry Hills, Sydney, has given expression to the seasonal feelings' of goodwill in a manner that should brighten the lives of a number of young folk. He has forwarded a donation to the secretary of the Presbyterian Social Service Association in Dunedin which will enable a Christmas gift to be made to every child under the care of the association. At the present time the association has GO children in its charge. Plans have been prepared for extensive additions to St. Peter’s Cathedral, Hamilton. The additions include a war memorial chapel and a baptistry at the west end of the cathedral. The baptistry will contain a font presented by the Auckland! Farmers’ Freezing Company in memory of the late -Mr Joseph Barugli, of Hamilton. On the south-east corner of the cathedral a bell tower 55 feet in height will be erected, while provision is also made in the plans for a vestry 27 feet by 20 feet to be built on the south side. The vestry and bell to weir are being built with a sum of £3OOO bequeathed by the late Miss Annie MacPherson to the cathedral chapter. A tenor bell, weighting one ton, has been ordered for the tower, and it is expected that a peal of bells will be installed later. A prominent visitor to Alastcrton for the Christmas season is the Rev. J. W. Burton, M.A., of Sydney, New South Wales, who is staying with his sisters in Chapel Street. The Rev. J. W. Burton was a resident of Mastcrton in his youth and attended the Central School. Firom the Kuripuni and Masterton Methodist churches he entered the ministry and after a brief term of service lie went to Fiji to take charge of the mission to the Hindu people on the plantations. After nine years he returned to. New Zealand, and became the minister of the Whitely Memorial Church in New Plymouth. His platform ability and executive powers in missionary enterprise led to his being called to Victoria to occupy the position of Foreign Mission Secretary in that State. Further promotion came to him! when he became general secretary for Missions for the Australasian Boardl with liis residence in Sydney, New South Wales. Jle was recently chosen as president of the New South Welsh Methodist Conference. Identical names can cause as much confusion as “doubles.” Miss Diana Churchill, the eldest daughter of Mr Winston Churchill, whose engagement to Mr John Milner Bailey has been announced, has sometimes been mistaken for the other Diana Churchill, the daughter of a Wembley doctor, who, though only eighteen, lias shown much promise both on the stage and on the screen. But as both Dianas were pupils at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in Gower 'Street, the confusion between them is excusable. All his life Mr Winston Churchill lias had a namesake —and for the last thirty years a famous namesake —in the United States. Winston Churchill, the American novelist, who published a poltical novel, “The Crisis,” twenty years before the English statesman gave us “The World Crisis,” is slightly the senior of the two; each lias about the same number of books to bis credit. The coincidence goes further, for the American novelist at one time entered politics, and very nearly became Governor of the State of New Hampshire. ITo has often visited England. ‘ ‘ The world can stand two Winston Churchills,” lie once said. “It can stand no more. ’ ’