LOCAL & GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 May 1937, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL.

A frost of 8.8 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning.

The Wairarapa Paper Chase Club will hold its opening run on Saturday, at Mr K. Buick’s property, Ngamatawa Koad. The chase will .start at 1.30 p.m. . The W.F.C.A, Ltd. wish to advise their customers that their premises will he closed on Wednesday, 12th May, being ±lie occasion of the coronation of King George VI. The Okarito Five Mile Beach Gold Dredging Co., Ltd., has issued the following production report for the four weeks ended 17th April:—Total gold won, 870z.j 'total time worked, 5034 hours.

After being crushed in the front scat of a car which collided with a horse float on Wednesday evening Epaninondas Laredo, of Hastings, was admitted to hospital suffering from a dislocated hip and laeration of the knee. His condition is only fair. The three retiring members, Messrs 11. P. Hugo, W. 11. Jackson and R. Krahagen, were nominated last night for re-election to the Trust Lands Trust. Nominations close on 14th Alay and if necessary an election will be held oa 27th Alay.'

"If the Government insists on the payment of land tax on sections owned by the Trust I think steps .should be taken to see that the Trust is reimbursed in the case of sections leased at a peppercorn rental,” .observed the chairman, Mr J. Macfarlane Laing, at last night’s meeting of the' Trust Lands Trust. The Trust, he said, would probably have to pay £5 or £6 a year tax for land leased for £1 a year to the Wellington Education Board. He considered that land tax was ail outgoing that should be paid by the tenant. The ten houses which the Government propose to erect in Masterton under its housing scheme will be located on sections owned by the State Advances Department in Short Street. Later,/it is stated, additional houses will be erected on land to be purchased on the western side of the town. All the houses will be of different designs and will consist of from three-roomed dwellings to houses containing six rooms, a large sun-porch and a garage. In the case of the largest type of house everything including the garage will be under one roof. The rentals, it is stated, will vary from 12s 6d'a week to 255.

Referring to the suggestion of Mr E. D. Mosley, S.M.* that certain offenders under the motor legislation be given compulsory tuition while on probation, the Minister of Transport, the Hon. It. Semple, last night suggested a syllabus of instruction for motorists so dealt with by the Courts. The course involves practical add theoretical instruction in the control of a motor vehicle, intensive instruction in motor legislation and regulations and instruction in road code. Mr Semple said he entirely agreed with Mr Mosley’s proposals. Every avenue must be explored to reduce accidents and educate motorists. The resources of his Department were available to the Courts.

The fact that in the absence of eyewitnesses the evidence did not provide a clear idea of the cause of the accident was commented on by the Coroner, Mr E. J. Hill, at an inquest into the 4 death of Timothy Janies Pitt, aged 19, bank clerk, who died from the effects of a fractured skull after a collision between his motor-cycle and a motor-car driven by Bernard O’Connor Gallagher, aged 23. The accident occurred at an intersection in Blenheim on 29th March, Gallagher, who was also injured, being sent to hospital. The Coroner, in returning a verdict that death was due to cerebral haemorrhage as a result of the collision, expressed the opinion that Gallagher had exercised care at the intersection, which was described as dangerous.

Yesterday Nelson ratepayers carried ia proposal to raise a loan of £BO,OOO for additional water supply. A combined doubles Yankee table tennis tournament will be held in the Y.A1.0.A. to-morrow night, commencing at 7.45 o’clock.

The Alasterton Harrier Club will hold a dance in the Alunicipal Hall on Saturday, 15tli ALay. The music will be supplied by the Blue River Dance Band. Air Harold Reeve, the well-known Bush boxer and footballer, is making a good recovery from the injury sustained to his left knee three weeks ago.

The Alasterton Retailors’ Association invite the shopkeepers of Alasterton to close their premises on Wednesday, 12tli ir.st., on the occasion of the Coronation of King George VI. A resident of Queenwood Road, Levin, as obtained a yield or seventeen tons of potatoes from a three-quarter-acre section. He has received £l3O for the crop, many roots of wliicli revealed more than thirty saleable tubers.

A young girl living with Air and Airs E. Goss, Atangamaire, owes her life to the alertness and quick action of Mr George Wood, of Alangamaire, who hearing cries from Mr Goss’s residence near the station on Alonday, investigated and found the child in difficulties in a flooded pool. She had gone down once or twice when Mr Wood’ arrived and had he not been quick to grasp the situation would have been drowned. A statement that the Government through the heavy taxation imposed, now owned slightly more than half of the shareholders’ business was made by the chairman of the Northern Roller Milling Company, Ltd., Mr J. A. Peacock, in his address at the annual meeting at Auckland yesterday. The Government’s interference in the wheat and flour industry, said Mr Peacock, had had a disastrous effect, and if the position were not met it meant that the Government was knowingly pledged to confiscation. There appeared to be two courses open to the Government —either to fix a price that would allow the mill to function at a reasonable profit, or to take it over at what was the current price of shares at the time that the affairs of the company passed virtually from the control of ktc management to a State department.

The Wellington Ratepayers’ Association in a recent statement on municipal questions inferred that Alasterton was one of the boroughs where ratepayers had demonstrated by turning down loan proposals that they were tired of the heavy burdens they were carrying and that the bad habits of the past must be overcome. It has been pointed ont to the association that the inclusion of Masterton was a mistake, as no loan proposals have been placed before Alasterton ratepayers within recent years. The chairman of the Wellington Ratepayers’ Association states that he finds that Alasterton was wrongly mentioned in the statement. Dunedin was the municipality which should have been mentioned in place of Alasterton in. the group referred to. In fairness to the civic authorities of Masterton the Wellington , Ratepayers ’ Association wishes to make this correction.