LOCAL AND GENERAL

Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 21982, 10 March 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

“Wings For Victory” Fund The figure in London’s “Wings for Victory” week had reached £72,556,136 at noon yesterday. Girl Needed Bigger Ration The heaviest cf the South Australian outsized children to apply for extra ration tickets is a 15-year-old girl. She is sft. 4in. and weighs 16st. 121 b. Fall From Horse Slight concussion was suffered by i Brownie Walker, aged 13, of ParaI wera, when he fell from a horse. He was removed to the Waikato Hospital. Efficiency of Hamilton E.P.S. “A high official of the National Service Department told me that the Hamilton E.P.S. organisation com- ; pared more than favourably with j anj- in New Zealand, and he asked | me to convey to the Central Com- ! mittee his congratulations,” said Mr H. D. C-iro, at a meeting of the Hamilton E.P.S. committee last night. Honour For Elderly Worker Mr Harry Hargreaves, “a real Yorkshire lad of 73,” recently received the British Empire Medal for operating a lathe at a machine-tool factory. He has been a lathe worker for 57 years; since the war he has just worked his lathe harder. The almost incredible efforts of British housewives in this war got recognition in the award of the British Empire Medal to Mrs Frances Taylor. She has four children and a blind husband, but manages to keep house for them, as well as doing a full day’s work in a munition factory. Wild Pig Destroyed A wild pig measuring 6ft. lin. from snout to tail, and with a girth of 4ft., was shot at Tongaporutu on Sunday by two New Plymouth men, Messrs J. E. Smith and L. Hancock. The animal, a young one, had a snout and hooves each measuring 3£in. across. The pig had been killing sheep and lambs on the property where it was discovered. When it sighted the two men the pig charged toward them, but they both discharged their rifles and killed it. One of Mr Hancock’s legs was cut by the tusks of the animal as it charged. Game Birds Increase

A prominent member of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society, in discussing the effect of a closed season in 1942, stated that they had been a phenomenal increase in grey duck. It might not be an exaggeration to say, he added, that there had been a threefold increase. Pheasants had also increased to such an extent that complaints of marauding expeditions into potato crops were relegating this popular bird to the status of a pest. From a sportsman’s point of view, duck and pheasants, although increasing in such a pleasing way, were perhaps becoming too tame for true conservation.

News of Russian Ballet Members News of members of the Russian Ballet who made themselves very popular in New Zealand a few years ago is contained in the following item from an American paper: David Lichine’s new ballet, “Helen of Troy,” received its world premiere in Detroit, and according to the local press, scared a decided hit. It is said to be uproariously funny, “kidding” the famous legend, the interpolated P. M. of a Faun, and ballel itseli. Irina Baronova has the double role of Venus and Helen, Anton Dolin that of Paris, Jerome Robbins plays Mercury, and Simon Semenoff, Menelaus.