LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21417, 10 May 1941, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

War Contributions Further interest-free loans and donations for the War Expenses Fund acknowledged by the Minister of Finance, the Hon W. Nash, bring the total to £2,673,350. Finish of Term Hamilton primary and secondary schools finished the first term yesterday and the children began a fortnight’s holiday. Classes will be resumed on May 26. Mumps at School Twenty cases of mumps were reported by the principal, Mr A. H. R. Amess, to the Stratford Technical High School Board. Mr Amess stated that the epidemic did not attain serious proportions and he considered that after the term holidays the school would be quite free from the trouble. School Gives £l5O A contribution of £l5O has been made to the All Purposes Patriotic Appeal by the pupils of the Rotorua Kign School since the launching of the appeal last October, stated the headmaster, Mr W. G. Harwood, at a meeting of the board of governors. Mr Harwood added that the contribution for the term had been £35. Queen Wilhelmina to Speak A year ago today the Netherlands was invaded. Queen Wilhelmina, according to advice received by the Netherlands Consulate in Wellington, will speak from London on the radio. In New Zealand this broadcast will be heard on Sunday between 6.4? and 7 a.m. New Zealand time, on the 49 and 30-metre bands. Chilly Morning Although chilly conditions were experienced in Hamilton this morning with an early fog, no frost was recorded. After 9 degrees of frost yesterday warm sunshine was enjoyed, though a cold wind in more exposed positions made conditions chilly. With the barometer steady at 30.35 fine weather may be expected during the week-end. Shooting Prospects Several parties of sportsmen left Hamilton this morning for the back country to shoot pheasant and duck. During the week reports were received of fair success, with at least three limit bags of duck. Quail, pukeko and black swan are said, to be fairly plentiful in some districts, but the sportsmen are more intent at present upon shooting the more elusive duck and pheasant. Fall From Express Falling from the express from Wellington about 14 miles north of Taumarunui shortly after four o’clock yesterday morning, Mr J. D. Moss, aged 52, of Dannevirke, received a broken arm. He was saved from more serious injury by landing in nearly a foot of water in a ditch. After wandering round for about two hours, Mr Ross found a farmhouse and was taken to the Taumarunui Hospital by the farmer. ’ Statesman’s Death Today is the anniversary of the death of the Rt. Hon. W. F. Massey, Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1912 to 1925, whose death occurred on May 10, 1925. His 13 years of office as leader of the National War Government and the Reform Administration was the second longest term in the history of the Dominion. The Rt. Hon. R. J. Seddon was Prime Minister for about four months longer. Mothers’ Day Mothers’ Day will be observed throughout the Dominion tomorrow, the principal observance being the wearing of white flowers, with some special gift to each mother as a token of affection and gratitude. The idea of Mothers’ Day developed in America, the purpose being to set aside a day when special appreciation of the services given and the sacrifices made by mothers could be expressed by thought and act. In New Zealand in recent years there has been a growing observance of the occasion, and tomorrow there will be appropriate references in church services to the occasion. Minister In Accident A narrow escape from injury was experienced by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, when a small car in which he was a passenger capsized into a small pumice pit about 15 miles from Rotorua yesterday morning. Although the car was extensively damaged, none of the three occupants received any injuries. The accident occurred on the main Taupo road near Rainbow Mountain. Mr Parry's son-in-law. Mr D. Ciochetto, who was driving, had turned off the main road and found that he had mistaken the entrance of a quarry for a side road. It was while backing that the car capsized into a pit covered with fern at the side of the road. The three occupants, who included Mr Ciochetto’s seven-year-old son, were able to escape without assistance.