LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 October 1937, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To-day is “Trafalgar Day” and flags are flying at the Post Office and other public buildings in Masterton.

The latest return of the Clutha Gold Dredging Company makes the total gold won to date 45680 z. The dredge began operations on 22nd May and. the latest return of 3440 z. is the third best washup. Taking gold at £7 per ounce, the value amounts to £31,976. During September the Bulolo gold dredges produced 18,3100 z, of bullion, containing 12,8380 z. of fine gold, from 893,600 cubic yards. The estimated working profit is 85930 z.

The members of the Wairarapa High School Old Girls’ Association held a social evening at the home of Miss Lily Wells on Tuesday evening. There was a good attendance and everyone was well entertained with pianoforte and violin items and songs. An amusing one-act play entitled “The Empty Chair” was read and a competition Avas enjoyed. An excellent supper Avas served by the committee.

The annual round of reunion events at SolAvay College Avill take place this Aveek-end. To-morroAv at 2 p.m. the bazaar and garden party Avill be the attraction and in the evening reminescences Avill be exchanged. On Saturday, at 2.30 p.m., the annual meeting of the Old Girls’ Association Avill be held and following tea at 6 o’clock, a concert Avill be presented at 8 o’clock. A church parade will be held on Sunday at 11 a.m.

The folloAving are the successful Wairarapa candidates in the supplementary list of internal examination results from Victoria University College:— Logic and Ethics, Enid Michael; Medical Intermediate, Organic, G. M. Morice; Geography, Stage 1 (First Class), E. C. Coddington; Zoology, Stage 1 (Third Class), G. M. Morice (Pr. Ill); Jurisprudence (Third Class), J. M. Douglas; Constitutional History (Third Class), J. M. Douglas; Chemistry, Stage I (Third Class), G. M. Morice (Pr. III).

The opinion that worken? in a hospital laundry should be exempted from the provisions of an award governing laundries worked for profit, was expressed by the chairman, Mr H. H. Mawley, at yesterday’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board. “I notice,” he said, “that Scots College was recently exempted from the provisions of the laundry award as it was an institution not trading for profit. I think we should make every effort to obtain exemption when the occasion arises. We certainly are not trading for profit.” Dr. G. S. Sharp; “We are trading at a loss.”

A meeting of shareholders of the Wairarapa Terminating Building Society was held at Carterton last night to dispose of an appropriation of £6OO by ballot in the No. 2 group. Mr J. A. B. Lawrence was nominated to draw the lucky marble, and after one number had been drawn upon which a loan was already held, No. 564, which was one of the four shares held by Mr Lawrence, was drawn. It is a rather unusual occurrence for a shareholder to draw his own marble. At a later meeting of directors it was decided to hold an appropriation by sale on Ist December.

The price at which the Government will purchase wheat grown in New Zealand for the 1937-38 harvest is 5s 9d a bushel, f.0.b., Tuscan, March basis. Yesterday Messrs L. Taylor and L. D. Loasby arrived at the Hood Aerodrome from Wellington, Iho former later returning to Wellington. Mr R. McGregor left the Hood Aerodrome yesterday for Hastings and returned today.

Interviewed yesterday on the proposed amendments to the Land and Income Tax Act, Mr A. P. O’Shea, Dominion Secretary of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, said a great amount of work would be saved the Government’s special committee for revising the land and income taxes if it made use of the report of the Sim Taxation Commission. The recommendations of that commission had the support of the Farmers’ Union. The statement which the Union had recently put forward on land and income taxation was much in line with the commission’s recommendations. There was no question, Mr O ’Shea said, that the imposition of the land tax was making it difficult for partnerships, which in rough country, particularly in the North Island, were necessary for the economic working of farms. Both the land tax and the company income tax should be abolished.