LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 March 1935, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

The return at King Solomon mine this week was 83ozs.

The Hood Aerodrome reports that Flying-Officer J. Buekeridgo left yesterday in ZK-ACD for Ngakonui with Mr A. McDonald as passenger, the pilot returning solo. The annual general meeting of Saint Andrew’s Society will be held at Knox Hall, Masterton, on Thursday, 28th March, at 8 p.m. Business: Adoption of annual report and balance sheet, election of officers, and general. A reduction in the selling price of motor registration number plates from 2/6 to 2/- per set was announced yesterday by the Postmaster-General, Hon. A. Hamilton. In the aggregate the reduction will mean a saving to motorists of about £SOOO a year.

It lias been decided by the Wairarapa High School Old Girls’ Hockey Club to enter one team in the senior championship. The first practice will be held on Saturday, 30th March. Six new members have been elected. A dance -will be held next month. Mr Stanley Fletcher (Masterton) has been a very successful exhibitor of dahlias this season. At the Martinborough Flower Show he secured three first prizes, one second and champion in the open class, and first in the best bloom cottage class; at Grey town one first, one second and a third and champion; at Mauriceville two firsts, and at Eketahuna one first and one second.

Wliat impressed itself mostly on the mind of Mr H. Denton, of Invercargill, on a recent visit to Tasmania was the relics of the “good old days” of the convict settlement. He had read about them but when it came to actually seeing the prisons where the unfortunate men had been incarcerated and reading the parchment with the sentences on them it recalled the conditions only too realistically. It was hard to credit that a man could be transported for seven years merely for skating on ice on private property or get a similar sentence for stealing a pocket handkerchief. A striking example of the extent to which the cost of imported goods is increased by duty, exchange and other charges, was quoted from the Australian and New Zealand Trade Journal by tho secretary of the Hastings Chamber of Commerce, Mr F. Perrin, at a recent meeting of the Chamber. The f.o.b. cost of the goods in England, said Mr Perrin, was £2356. Freight and landing charges amounted to £276, exchange and bank charges to £745, and duty to £697. The sales tax brought the total cost to tho importer up to £5230. “This so-called five per cent sales tax,” remarked Mr Noel Wilson, “actually works out at anything from 9 to 15 per cent.” Deriving its title from one of the sonnets of Shakespeare set to music, ‘ 1 The Wind and the Rain, ’ ’ which is to be presented here for the first time by the J. C. Williamson “Ten Minute Alibi” Company at the Regent Theatre on Friday evening, is brilliantly clever eomedy-drama, pleasantly human and humorous, with a love motif that is delicious. The atmosphere in the student’s study is said to be very definite. “MrS McFie, the landlady,” wrote a critic, “is ever shuffling in to tidy up and keep an eye on 'the boys.’ Sections of a skeleton are hidden in a book-case. Above the doorway hang crossed foils, and who but Gilbert could have hung on the wall a policeman’s helmet rampant with an upturned beer bottle? The contrast between the students is indicated by the monotonous beer-drinking of Gilbert and John Williams, who arrive and depart hanging up and taking down coats and golf sticks, the while Charles Tritton (George Thirlwell) waits for telephone rings from Ann Hargreaves (Jocelyn Howarth).” The author of “The Wind and the Rain,” Dr. Merton Hodge, is well known throughout Now Zealand.

Notice of motion' to rescind a resolution carried at the last meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, making a grant of £IOO to the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club has been given by Crs. R. Russell and W. Kemp. The motion will come up for consideration at the next meeting of the council. At the Greytown flower show a cake donated by Mrs J. M. Jury weighed 7 lbs loz. Mesdames J. Langley (Greytown), R. Tait (Wellington), H. D. Bayliss (Greytown), and A. E. Dillon (Masterton), with 71bs 2ozs each, divided, and each took a quarter. This competition brought in £l/17/6. Wellington received a vigorous prod from the chairman of the Transport Co-ordination Board yesterday. Representatives of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce were being 1 heard in protest against the possible exclusion of Wellington from the Dominion trunk air route, and in the course of the hearing Sir Stephen Allen pointedly remarked: <( lt might be a good New Year resolution of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce to provide a better aerodrome.”

At a meeting of the Wairarapa Automobile Association this week it was decided to send a circular letter to all local bodies in the district asking that if any A.A. signposts were discovered blown down in outside areas, the information be despatched to Association Headquarters immediately. The Service Officer was instructed to erect a No Exit sign at the entrance to the Penrose Farm Road. Mr Nix reported that high gorse was obstructing vision at Dick’s Corner on the Morison Bush Road, and it was decided that the Noxious Weeds Inspector be advised, and asked to take steps to eradicate it. -

The Featlierston League of Mothers held its first meeting of the year yesterday. There was a very large attendance of members and the president, Mrs Arch Clark, presided. Mrs Florence Porter, of Wellington, who has been a vice-president of the League of Mothers since its inception, was the principal speaker. Mrs Porter, who is organising secretary for the British and Foreign Bible Society, gave a, most interesting and informative address on the wor kof the Bible Society in India and other foreign countries. She impressed on mothers the need for giving their children instruction on the Bible. Afternoon tea was provided by Mesdames Clark, W. Willis and S. Burt.

Rev, A. A. Bensley, of the Western Solomons, who is spending the weekend in the Wairarapa, in the interests of the Methodist Foreign Missions, and who will preach at Wesley Church tomorrow night and give an illustrated lantern lecture on Tuesday evening, was the first New Zealander to be appointed to that very interesting missionary sphere. Trained in our own institution Mr Bensley volunteered for missionary work 16 years ago, and has done fine service in this department. Owing to ill-health in the family Mr Bensley has reluctantly had to ask to be relieved of his task in the islands and in the new Connexional year will be stationed at Morrinsville in the Waikato. At the recent conference he addressed a crowded missionary meeting in the Dunedin Town Hall and made a great impression by his earnest appeal. .

A meeting of ratepayers of the West Riding of the Maurieeville County Council was hold at Hastwell on Thursday evening. Messrs W. Miller, A. Forsberg and F. W. Parry, councillors for the • riding, were present. Mr A. Tliorby, who presided', said that there was general dissatisfaction throughout tho riding at the increase in rates. Mr F. W. Parry said that this was tantamount to an expression of no confidence in the councillors representing the riding and requested that a vote be taken. Mr George Halberg moved that the meeting of ratepayers had no confidence in the West Riding members but there was no seconder. A lengthy and interesting discussion on the finances and administration of county affairs followed, at the conclusion of which a hearty vote of thanks to the councillors was carried with acclamation. Acknowledging the thanks, Mr Forsberg paid a tribute to the work done for tho county by the chairman, Mr Robert Judd.

At the annual meeting of the Foatherston branch of the British and Foreign Bible Society Mrs Archie Clark presided over a large. attendance. Mrs Burt (secretary) gave a full account of the work done. Mrs F. Porter (organising secretary) spoke on the work of the society, stressing the great encouragement the last annual report from London gave all associated with the world-wide link of the society. She stated that the circulation for last year was then 300,000 more than that of the previous year. The Rev. G. W. Blair gave a deeply interesting and impressive address upon the work of the Bible Society in India. This was much enjoyed, as Mr and Mrs Blair were missionaries in India for a number of years. Mrs Archie Clark was unanimously re-elected president and a high tribute was paid to her for her ceaseless energy and leadership. Mrs A. T. Burt was re-elected secretary . and received a very hearty vote of thanks for her capable and thorough work.

A proposal to reduce the ordinary capital of the Taupo-Totara Timber Company, Limited, from £175,107 to £87,553/10/- by writing down tho ordinary shares from £1 to 10/- each, is to be considered by shareholders at a special general meeting in Wellington on 27th March. It is also proposed that preference shareholders should accept a dividend at the rate of 5£ per cent, in full settlement of arrears from 30th April, 1931, to 30th April, 1934. This will mean a reduction of £2902 on the amount legally due. From 30th April, 1934, the preference, dividend will revert to 5 3-5 per cent. With the amount available from the writing down of capital it is proposed to extinguish the loss of £5727 in the profit and loss account, to write off £5379 for the railway extension to Taupo and • to transfer the balance of £76,448 to a special reserve account for use in replacing plant or for the purchase of new bush after the preference dividends. have been paid. A profit of £6971 was earned in the year ended 30th April, 1934, but in the previous three years the company incurred losses of £4145, £11,408 and £7099 respectively. The ordinary dividends have been passed for six years.

There’s a difference in the flavour of sauces and pickles made with SHARLAND’S VINEGAR. Its full, piquant flavour MAKES the sauce or pickle. In bottle or bulk. All stores. *

The ground at. Hood Aerodrome is now being pegged out preparatory to commencement of improvement which is to commence within a day or so. Some excellent blooms were displayed at the Greytown Flower Show. Masterton exhibitorfs won the following prizes:—Dahlias, cactus, Mrs Seliarnweber, 2ppompom, Mrs Schamweber, 1 and 2; pansies, W. Stidolpli, 3; phlox, Mrs Scharnweber, 1; petunia, J. S. BerTiman, 1,2, and 3; zinnias,six, Mrs W. Stidolph, 2; zinnias, three, F. G. Maunsell, 1; annuals, Mrs Scharnweber, 1 and 2; perennials, Mrs Scharnweber, 2; any other distinct flower, 2; points prize, Mrs Scharnweber, 3; ladies’ shoulder spray, Mrs Scharnweber, 3; lady’s posy, Mrs Scharnweber, 1; cross stitch embroidery, Mrs Scharnweber, 2.