LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 18 January 1933, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The Carterton Borough Council lias' found it necessary to place further retrictions upon the use of garden hose owing to the wilful •waste of water. The following are the results of the events decided at the Masterton Amateur Swimming Club ’s weekly meeting held at the Dixon Street baths last •evening:—7s Yards, senior.—R. Horne (2ser) 1, J. Barnes (scr)’ 2, B. Bodle (4see) 3. 75 Yards, intermediate. —W. Smith (lsec) 1, Dwyer (2sec) 2, D. Pole (scr) 3. ‘SO Yards, ladies. —'Miss M. Morton (scr) 1, Miss P. Hargood (5 sec) 2, Miss ‘Grose (4sec) 3. 25 Yards, junior boys. —J. Logan (4sec) 1, Toxward (2sec) 2, Ansel (scr) 3. Dive. — R. Horne 1, J. Barnes 2, L. Pole 3. The compulsory conversion of all local body loans —a subject which has been engaging the consideration of the Southland Electric Power Board for some time past. —received further mention at yesterday’s meeting. In urging that representations to* the authorities be renewed, Mr E. K, Sim declared that the Government was only procrastinating in the matter. The flax and gold-mining industries were languishing, as w'as also dairying, and assistance for these waa urgently needed. Immediate action was required and he moved that the board follow up conversion possibilities by further written representations to the Prime Minister, to the •Hon. Adam Hamilton, and to the Minister of Finance. The motion was carried.

During December the Masterton County Council expended a total of £1385 Is 7d on unemployed wages under the No. 5 Scheme. The amount was made up as follows:—Road 1 works, £323 7si 6d; farm work, £748 13s 3d; single men’s camps, £313 0s lOd. The total expended on all unemployed works ■carried o-ut toy the county from Ist April to 31st December amounted to £10,493 10s 4d. Two hundred and twenty-seven men were employed toy the county last month on unemployed works under Scheme No. 5, as follows: —Road work 46, farm work 91, single men’s camps 90. The county is now running short of suitable works, handy to Mas-ter-ton, upon which unemployed relief workers can toe engaged without additional transport costs. An interim programme has been arranged in order to carry on until the end of the current financial year. The following are particulars of continuous traffic tallies taken on three main highways in the Masterton County for a period of seven days from 11th December to 17th December, 1932: — Masterton-Wetoer. —Motor cars, 2284; daily average, 326. Motor lorries, 809; daily average, 116. Motor cycles, 138; daily average, 20. Traction engines, 2. Tractors, 7; daily average, 1. Trailers, 52; daily average, 7. Total, 3292; daily average; 476. Masterton-Martin-borough.—Motor ears, 1091; daily average, 156. Motor lorries, 466; daily average, 67. Motor cycles, 67; daily average, 16. Traction engine, 1. Tractors, 10; daily average 3. Trailers, 33; daily average, 5. Total, 1668; daily average, 239, Wellington-Napier.—Mo-tor ears, 891; daily average, 127. Motor lorries; 180; daily average, 26. Motor cycles, 36; daily average, 5. Traction engines, 4; daily average, 1. Tractors, 9; daily average, 1. Trailers, 22; daily average, 3. Total, 1142; daily average, 163.

Support of the following resolution was requested toy the Stratford County Council in a letter received at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council: —“That all county councils be circularised, urging them to plaqe before their Parliamentary representatives the desirability of the Government paying all farmers’ rates to local bodies for the current, year, and at the same time to waive its claim for land tax.” Cr. G. Moore: “I suppose it is safe to ask for it: I don’t see how they can do it.” The chairman: “Everyone does not pay land tax; some get out of it.” Cr. Welch: “It might result in getting in some of the Maori rates.” Cr. Mawley questioned the usefulness of passing such resolutions, observing that the Government was probably fully aware of the position. One thing that the council had to set about doing, declared Or. Moore, was the reduction of rates. Cr. Armstrong: “Have we not already, done that?” Cr. Moore: “Yes, but we have got to. reduce them still further.” Cr. Falloon: “There is no doubt about that.” The letter was received. . j : ; ’! j ] ‘

The tender of the Fletcher Construction Co., Ltd., was accepted at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council for the construction of two bridges on the Westmere main highway.

A youngster four years of age -won a new' baby car in a raffle drawn at Napier on Monday. Under the present age restriction it will be a back number before he will be eligible to apply for his driver’s license.

Another good tally was recorded at the Waingawa Works yesterday when 6129 sheep and lambs, mostly sheep, ■were slaughtered. In addition, a number of cattle and about 200 pigs were also killed.

The Masterton Fire Brigade received a call to a grass fire on the Golf Links hill at Lansdowne about 5 o’clock yeterday afternoon. Good work was done by the brigade in beating out the fire, which covered an area of about an acre.

“ Another one of those wild-headed schemes,’’ observed a member at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council when the Kaiapoi Borough Council wrote soliciting support of the following resolution: ‘‘That the Minister of Finance be communicated with, requesting that legislation be brought down introducing a compulsory reduction in the rate of bank interest.” The letter was received. Excellent entries, have been received for the Wairarapa Lawn Tennis Association’s annual championship and handicap tournament, in conjunction with which the North Island championships will also be played. The tournament will open on Saturday next and' late entries will be received up till 6 p.m. to-day.. A number of notable outside competitors, including C. E. Malfroy, will probably take part. • A visit was paid to the agricultural training and holiday camp at Penrose yesterday by Mr A. E. Ansell, M.P., who has been associated with Mr S. G. Smith, M.P., in an investigation of juvenile unemployment in the Dominion. Mr Ansell saw the various teams of boys at work on the Training Farm and at nearby farms and declared himself very much impressed with what he had seen. Excellent entertainment was provided at the camp last evening by a. concert party from Masterton, headed by Mr Wilbur Davies.

The Wairarapa Aero Club wrote to the meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday afternoon requesting that, in order that complete control of traffic might be maintained on the' occasion of the visit to Masterton. of Sir Charles ICingsford Smith, the road to the Aerodrome be declared a non-park-ing area on that date and that the county traffic inspectors be allowed to regulate the traffic. The requests were granted, the chairman, Or. Armstrong, observing that it was only a small thing to the county, which should do what it could to help the club along. Through the vigilance of supervisors, two candidates were caught cheating in recent University tests, one in ‘degree and one in matriculation examinations. A report on these two cases was presented to the annual meeting of the New Zealand University ’Senate yesterday by the executive committee, which advised that in each case it had, in the meantime, disqualified the two candidates in the examinations in which they were taking part. The Senate decided that each of the two candidates should be debarred from sitting in 1933, and that their 3932 papers should not count.

A passion for gardening was said to be the reason for thefts of plants by Elizabeth Gilliatt, of Bishop Street, St. Albans, who appeared in the' Christchurch Magistrate’s Court yesterday. Accused pleaded guilty to four charges and was convicted and fined a total of £4, ordered to make good the damage 13s, in default fourteen days’ imprisonment. Senior-Sergeant Fox said that following a complaint Constable Quartley was on duty in Bishop Street. He saw the accused giving attention to a garden, from outside one of the fences. The constable accosted her and she tipped out the earth in her basket. She admitted having visited four places, in two cases going inside the fence. The plants Removed were now growing nicely in the accused’s own garden. Numerous complaints were made to the police about offences of this kind. “It is a particularly mean kind of offence and somewhat difficult to detect,” said the Senior-Sergeant. The accused was 47 years of age and of independent means. It was twenty years since she had been before the Court.