LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 March 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual general meeting .of the Old Girls’ Hockey Club will be held in the Y.M.C.A. Rooms at 8 o’clock to-night.

In some parts of Germany the police confiscate vehicles if the drivers commit road oifences. Cyclists in the main suffer from this punishment and in Cologne, on one day alone, 92 bicycles, two cars, and nine handcarts were temporarily taken away from their owners. Last year 800 bicyclists were killed on American roads, and certain sections of the community in that country are beginning to wonder whether the bicycle really has any place on modern roads amongst high-speed traffic, especially when ridden by children. With the calling of tenders. for the proposed Government houses in Carterton building and allied trades will receive much needed assistance. It is some months now since a house was built in Carterton, as the attitude has been one of wait and see, in order to ascertain what repercussion would. be felt by private home builders, writes our Carterton correspondent.

Messrs. Fagan Motors, Ltd., have purchased the premises they occupy in Bannister Street through Messrs Sellar and Sellar. These premises were owned by Messrs J. E. Staples and Co., Ltd., Wellington and were at one time known as Foreman’s Stables. New Zealand: is not known in Germany, said Miss 11. Paterson at a meeting of the Justices of the Peace Association at Dunedin. No one knew where it was. “In fact, they mistook the name for Holland and remarked that I spoke English very well,” she said. “Even when a map of the world was drawn they knew nothing beyond Australia. ’ ’

The education systems of America and Ncav Zealand were compared by the Rt. Hon. F. T. Kelley, Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma. City, during a visit to the Auckland Teachers’ Training College. He expressed the opinion that American schools were deteriorating through lack of sufficient discipline. It Avas a mistake, said Bishop Kelley, to neglect subjects such as mathematics, which disciplined the mind. The folloAving gold-mining returns are reported:—Gillespie’s Beach dredge reports a return of 330 z, from 9100 cubic yards in 85 hours. The lost time Avas due to repairs in the pOAA 7 er house. The Okarito AA'asli-up was 41oz. for 101 hours. For the Aveek ended 4tli March, the Clutlia River dredge worked 83 hours and recovered 94 ounces of gold. The loss of time Avas caused by shifting the dredge to the position it occupied early in January. The Mataki dredge return for the week ended 6th March Avas 37 ounces for 122 hours’ work and 8200 cubic yards.

The Post Office is iioav utilising for letter transport by air in New Zealand a daily route mileage of 3813 miles and the improA'ed facilities provided for a flat rate surcharge of a penny an ounce per letter have encouraged the development of the traffic at a satisfactory rate bearing a close approximation to the increasingly Avide range served by the aeroplane. Route mileage represents the distance actually coY'ered by aeroplanes carrying mails. For instance, from Palmerston North to Dunedin is 495 miles, and the traversing of this route once in each direction every day involves a route mileage of 990, Avhile the six trips from Wellington to Blenheim (45 miles) add 270 to the daily total.

The overhead bridge at Opaki, constructed to eliminate what has been regarded as a dangerous level crossing, Avill be open for traffic from to-day. Work on the ramp Avas started last November and good progress has been made by the contractors. The tAvo approaches to the bridges, Avhich Avill be completed in the next Aveek or so, ha\ T e to be metalled and consolidated and though this may cause some slight inconvenience to motorists for a day or tAvo, it is hoped that they will show consideration to the workmen engaged and will exercise caution. The surface of the approaches will probably be sealed Avithin the next tAvo or three weeks. Steady progress is also being made with the subrvay under the railway line at a level crossing north of Eketahuna. The excavation work at the north end is Avell under way, Avhile the Railways Department has made a start Avith the construction of the bridge across the subAvay.

The Lansdowne Ladies’ Guild will hold a sale of work on 6tli April.

The Wellington Early Settlers’ and Historical Association is to hold a picnic at Mr Geo; Allen’s property, East Taratalii, on Saturday, 19tli 1 larch. Mr Deverell, optician, Masterton, will re-visit Carterton on Thursday, 10th March, and may be consulted at the Dairy Co’s Office, Broadway, from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The annual general meeting of the Masterton Friendly Societies’ Dispensary will be held! in the A. and P. Rooms, Perry Street, at 7.30 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday).

The following polo matches will be played at the Polo Ground, Te Ore Ore, to-morrow (Wednesday) at 1 p.m.: Masterton Juniors v. Whareama, and at 2 p.m., Masterton v. Homewood, Hawke’s Bay.

It is the hope of the Prime Minister, Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, that the present session of Parliament will close on Wednesday, 16tli March. With a view to expediting progress, the House of Representatives will be asked to sit on Saturday and Monday next. In connection with the New Zealand State Placement Service the figures for Masterton for the period from 31st January till Saturday last are as follow: —Permanent 13, casual 48, temporary 13, positions filled during current week 15, total private positions filled 74.

When the forks of his bicycle broke yesterday afternoon a West School boy, John Allan Rayne, aged 10 years, crashed to the roadway in Cole Street and sustained head injuries which necessitated his removal to the Masterton Hospital. His condition is reported to be satisfactory. The National Convention of the Y.M.C.A. will be held in Wellington next week, when Mr A. Bate, of Masterton, will attend. The Optimist Club Conference will be held on Tuesday, the Convention taking place on Wednesday and Thursday. The secretarial gathering will be held on Saturday night. About 250 employees in wool, grain, hide, and manure stores in Auckland again failed to report on Saturday morning, following a decision not to work on Saturday mornings at the ordinary rates of pay. Mr B. J. Marquet, chairman of the Auckland Woolbrokers’ Association, .stated when questioned that the position was unchanged. The men resumed work as usual yesterday morning. A lengthy delay in landing, occasioned by the recently-imposed restrictions on passenger ships from Sydney, was experienced by 700 passengers on the Matson liner Mariposa when she arrived at Auckland yesterday from Melbourne and Sydney after an excellent Tasman crossing. The vessel arrived in the harbour at 6.20 a.m., anchoring in the stream, where two medical examining officers boarded her. It was nine o’clock before passengers could land.

Looking fonvard eagerly to their visit to Neiv Zealand, a party of 20 English public schoolboys arrived at Wellington last night by the Tainui from Southampton. The director of the party is Mr A. E. C. Cornwall, a house master at Marlborough, and he has with him as assistant, Mr A. F. Philpotts. The advance agent, Lord Malcolm Douglas-llamilton, aaJio has been in the Dominion since January, Avent out in the Janie Seddon to Avelcome the party, when the liner arrived in the stream. This is the tAventieth tour arranged by the School EmpireTour Committee, and the third to Ncav Zealand.

At the annual meeting of the South Featherston Miniature Rifle Club the folloAving officers Avere elected for the ensuing year: —Messrs. D. 11. S. Riddiford (patron); A. Gain (captain); A. Simmonds® (vice-captain); P. Wilton (secretary and treasurer); A. Yule (assistant secretary); A. Aslnvorth and P. Currie (official markers); L. G. Rasmussen, M. Hodder and C. Bain (range officers); L. G. Rasmussen and M. Hodder (delegates to the Wairarapa Miniature Rifle Association); T. George (ammunition officer); J. Bain (target steAvard); A. Yule (handicapper); A. Simmonds (butt officer); A. Gain and A. Simmonds (selectors); R. Jepson, P. Currie, R. Yule, T. George and L. Lumsden (committeemen).

NeAvs that the Oceanic and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, a subsidiary of the Matson Line, is contemplating resuming Pacific Coast-New Zeal and-Australia cargo trade with three 13-knot freighters, was brought by the Mariposa, states an Auckland telegram. The Auckland agents stated that they have no knoAvledge of r.uch a move, although they kneAv it had been freely reported in the United States‘Press. The ser\ 7 ice was carried on for many years by the once familiar “Golden” ships, but they have not been regular traders here for years. The demand .for cargo spacethe world over and Japanese influence in the Pacific are stated to be contributory factors. There also is good reason to beligye that either British or American passenger liners operating in the America-New Zealand-Australia run Avill shortly make regular calls at Tahiti. A

Mr J. Corder, chairman of the CaAvthron Board of Trustees, has received the folloAving resolution passed by the Research Council of the Department of the Scientific Industrial Research: “That this council extends to Sir Theodore Rigg its sincere congratulations on the signal honour Avhicli his Majesty the King has conferred on him, a fitting recognition of his many years’ devoted service in . the cause of science as director of the Cawthron Institute. He and his staff have been responsible for discoveries of farreaching importance to the primary industries of NeAY Zealand, and it must be a matter of great felicitation on the part of the Cawthron Institute Trust Board that the Avork of the institute should have led to a so Avell-merited honour being conferred on its director.”

The South Featherston Miniature Rifle Club will open the season on Tuesday, 22nd March. Mr K. R. Johnston (pilot) and Miss D. Kennedy (passeger) left the Hood Aerodrome this morning for Nelson in the club’s new Whitney-Straight plane. They will return later in the afternoon. A grand gala dance will be held in the Municipal Hall on Saturday night next in honour of the Inter-house Girls ’ Association, presentation of cups to winners, and a display by all teams. The music will be supplied by the Blue River Dance Band.

It is anticipated that coloured concrete pedestrian crossings will supersede the statutory white-paint markings, which have proved inefficient. The Wellington City Corporation has started experimenting by laying down a crossing at the Willis Street end of Willeston Street in concrete of a deep orange colour, bordered with strips of white. Traffic is now using this crossing, and it will be interesting to see how well the colour stands up to the test of time. j ■ , .

A garden party was held at the home of Mr. F. G. Maunsell, Essex Street, on Saturday, in aid of St. Matthew’s Anglican Church fund. There was a ( large attendance. The Masterton Municipal Band played bright music. A “Yankee” tennis tournament was won by Miss R. Smith and Miss J. Hatch. The stall-holders were: Mesdames Ralph Beetham, W. Price and Miss Booth (produce); Mesdames Armstrong and Hatch (flowers); Mesdames Burke, Emery and Barlow and Misses Robieson and Brown (sweets); Mesdames Judd and Alexander (cakes); Mesdames W. Andrew and Sutherland and Miss Cresswell (sewing); Mesdames Heath and Henderson (cordials); Mesdames Lattimer and Kilgour (character reading); Mrs. Teniston (croquet ladder); Mesdames Gray, Aikman, Coleman, Wood, Jaine, Ramsay, Hope, Bennett, Isles, Hutton, Tatler and Misses Coleman, Wall and Gray (afternoon tea). Mr. Rich expressed to Mr. Maunsell his thanks for allowing the Guild to use his lovely grounds.