LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wanganui Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 15977, 20 November 1919, Page 11

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Intercessory prayers were offered in churches in Sydney yesterday for rain. Among companies recently registered is the Pownall Rubber Coy., Ltd., office, H.M. Theatre Buildings, Wanganui. Capital, ,£II,OOO, in 11,000 shares of J1 each. Subscribers: S. Powdrill, 500 shares; G. H. S. Pownall, 600 fully paid, 1000 ordinary; J. B. Sutherland, 1000; H. Christie, 1500; G. S. Gordon, 750; G. W. McCaul, 500. Objects: To carry on the business of G. H. Pownall Rubber Coy. Sir Francis Bell, Minister of Education, visited Masterton yesterday, and after receiving a deputation, promised definitely to provide a High Schol for Masterton. He did not indicate what the vote would be,, but stated that it would be something substantial. . The question of site is to be settled later, but the Trust Lands trustees have offered twenty-six acres free of mortgage.

Two hundred Mormon agents are busy in Britain luring girls to Utah. Twelve hundred are awaiting embarkation. The scarcity of husbands is stated to have given an opportunity to the Mormon elders, many of whom have arrived since the armistice. The strongest warnings against their allurements are being published.

Immense fortunes lying at the bottom of the sea in torpedoed ships have led to proposals of new methods of salvage. It is proposed to submerge on each side of a wreck submarines fitted with strong pumps, and to lift the wreck to the surface bodily on a wire rope cradle. Another idea is a great electro-magnet attached to powerful cranes wroked by compressed air.

The Defence Department are in receipt of a parcel of foreign war tions awarded for special service rendered during the war by members of the New Zealand rtecpedilionary Force. These medals will bo despatched to the districts where the ’recipients reside ait au early, date. The most conspicuous medal in the parcel is the Serbian Double Eagle,'' which has been conferred on Lieutenant-Colonel Meldrum,

At a mass meeting of railway employees held at lunch hour yesterday in the Eastown workshops, the following resolution was carried after a good discussion: “That we consider the time has arrived when State help should be given to all married men raising a family, in the way of financial assistance to help them to feed, clothe, house and educate them, seeing that children axe the nation’s best asset. This in *>nr opinion is in the best interests of the nation.”

Last night some one gained admission to the local Defence Department’s offices and committed something in the way of an amateur but clumsy burglary. Admittance was gamed by smashing the glass in one of the top windows and unfastening the lock of a bottom window and pushing it up. The burglar was evidently an amateur, as be did not take any precautions to cover his tracks, and left the mudy imprint of his dainty feet on the stairs leading up to the room in which he operated. A table drawer was rifled, papers and stamps were scattered /all over the room, and the sum of 3s 3d in cash taken. The matter is now in the hands of the police.