LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 August 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The monthly meeting of the Masterton Chamber of Commerce is to he held to-morrow afternoon. The second main trunk express between Wellington and Auckland will commence running on October Ist. y During the five months ending May last, no fewer than 165 persons left New Zealand to take up their permanent abode in . Scotland. ■ In reply to a question in the House of Representatives yesterday, the Prime Minister stated that it was probable that the New Zealand Gov* ernment would make an exhibit at the Panama Exposition. 1 An interesting limelight lecture, entitled, "From Cape to Cairo," will be given in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium hall to-night by Mr Ernest S.~ Cox, of the University of Chicago, scientist and explorer. Mr Cox is completing a five years' world tour, during which he has made a comparative study of ;the social and political: condition of the negro under the European Governments operating in Africa. The story of an adventurous journeying of 1800 miles on foot through darkest Africa is told in a charming manner, and his lecture will be worth while going to hear. A combined social was held by the Friendly Societies of Masterton in the Druids' Hall on Tuesday evening. The chair was occupied by Bro. Gourlay, president of the council. The following toasts were honoured : "The King," the chairman; "Combined Friendly Societies," proposed by Bro. J. R. Dunn, responded to by Bros. C. Ewington (Druids), White (Oddfellows\ S. J. o'Regan : (Hibernians), E. ers>; "Masterton Friendly Societies. Council," Bro. E. W. Gourlay (president), and S. J. O'Regan; (sec.) "The Press," Bro. o*Regan; "The Pianist." Bro. J, Shackleton—Mr W. Cargill. Musical items were contributed by the following: Bros. C. Ewington, E. Hooper, S. .T. O'Regan, Ladner, W. Darvill, J. Treader, L. McCarthy and Mr W. Cargill. Mr Cargill presided at the piano. • ... f

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The annual meeting of the €firey» town Dairy Company takes place tomorrow.

Mr J. C. Boddington reports that there were 3 points of rain registered at Upper Plain yesterday. Two Martinborough Territorials were convicted on Tuesday and ordered to pay coets for failing to attend the camp at Ormgi. .

John Savage was fined 40s, in default fourteen days' imprisonment at Carterton yesterday, on a charge of drunkenness. It was not his first offence.

Eleven cases of scarlet fever and one of enteric fever in South Wairarapa were reported to the Wairarapa Hospital . and Charitable Aid Board for the past two months. A Press Association telegram from ltirercargill states that four men were yesterday fined in amounts ranging from £1 to £5 for killing hares without having a license to do 60.

J. O'Leary, the Auckland footballer, has notified that he will be unable to make the trip to_ California. It is probable that Mitchinson, of Wellington, will be selected in his stead.

The Patea County Council has increased the wages of its surfacemen from 8s 6d to 9s per day. The men are paid "wet and dry, have a halfholiday once a week, and are supplied with tools. Our. Mauriceville correspondent writes: A number of those:, who sotight the protection of vaccination, have some reason to regret it, as they have been confined to their beds while others have an arni in a sling as a result of the operation;*" " At a meeting yesterday of the Masterton ' Committee of the Fanners' Union, it was decided to invite Mr D. Beddoe, the" resident Canadian Trade Commissioner, to deliver an address here at 2.30 p.m. on Wednesday, August 20th. It is proposed '.to entertain Mr Beddoe on the evening of that day. The infectious diseases reported, by Inspector Cairns to the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board for the past two months were as follow: Masterton'borough, scarlet fever 6, chicken piox 3; Masterton County, scarlet fever 4;. Pahiatua borough, scarlet fever 1, diphtheria 1, smallpox 1. ....

A Napier High School boy was yesterday convicted and ordered ■ to come up for sentence when, called upon for establishing 'a wireless telegraph" plant, . without receiving , the consent of the Postmaster-General. The lad was studying electricity, and had constructed a complete plant for receiving messages within a radius "of thirty miles.

A young man named Arnold Ashworth Binns pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court at Wellington yesterday to stealing jewellery to the. value of £165, the property of hii employer, Mr H. W. Lloyd.- It apt pears that the accusedi who was a teetotaller, was addicted to gambling and horse-racing, and . had pawned the .goods to raise- money'. "He wfts remanded for sentence.'

"Does your husband drink," queried counsel during the hearing- of a case for a separation order at the Napier. Court. "No," answered the witness, "and he, does not smoke/' "Oh," said counsel, "he has some virtues then." Witness: "I would rather have a man who drank.", ' 'Why P" queried his Warship. Witr ness: "Because he would have more feeling for his wife and family."; In his bi-monthly report to the Wairarapa Hospital and . Charitable Aid Board yesterday, ' Inspector Cairns stated that the period had been a busy one, owing to the necessary precautions and inquiring into supposed cases of smallpox in different parts the district, hut which proved,, on. investigation, to be nothing more than a trifling eruption of the skin or heat rash. The inspector referred to the Pahiatua case and > the case of- a young man who had been working at the- Ma-sterton railway station. During the two months be had made* frequent visits to Pahiatua and had also visited other outlying districts.. An appalling account of the moral conditions under which children live, in certain remote parts of New Zealand is given im ai (fetter from a schoolteacher in an isolated district, who, speaking of the state of affairs prevailing, says: "It means that drinking, swearing, and' essentially immoral conditions are the daily eottcomita-nta- of their existence. When I find in my school a child -of five as proficient in profanity as bullock driver ; 1 when- I find a child falling off his seat through stupefaction arising from drink, surely I must conclude that something is Tacking in the system that can produce parents and children of that type.""

A meeting of the committee of the Wairarapa and Featherston County Councils, set up to deal with the matter of the ejection of "a new bridge over the Waiohme river in place of the present worn-out Black bridge, was held in the Wairarapa South County Council's office. Carterton, on Tuesday, Mr T. V. Moore, acting-chairman of the Wairarapa South Council, presiding. It was reported that the Greytown Borough stood out from the scheme, and fused to pay any contribution. The Carterton Borough had agreed to pay l-16th of the cost of the work. It was decided to instruct' the engineer to draw up plans in readiness to go on with the work, and to arrange for a commission to be set up to allocate the charge to be contributed by the Greytown Borough.

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The Pahiatua Borough Gotiiicfl" reached the limit of • it<j overdraft* It intends going slow for the next few months. An entertainment and exhibition game of living cheee are to bo held in the Congregational schoolroom afr Masterton this evening. A patient at the Porirua v Mental Hospital named Ellen May Hubbartf committed suicide yesterday by hanging herself to an electrid light bracket in a lavatory. The Wairarapa district nurses have, smce thoir appointment, atr tended 73 cases. The attendance on these cases has varied'from one day to two weeke. The amount of fee® paid during the year was £lO6 5s lid. A sum of £3lO was paid in by th» shareholders cf the Masterton Work-» ers' Mutual Benefit Society at lh» pay-night last evening, to enable them to participate in the ballot and sale of £6OO, which takes place ont the 28th August. Mr A. D. McLeod' stated at th© meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board yesterday that during the past, three years noli a threepenny piece had been expended in charitable aid in the therston County. The Perpetual Trustees Estata Agency Company Amendment Bill (Hon. J. A. Millar) was read a sec-oud-jtime in the House of Representatives yesterday. The Auckland Weekly ..Half-Holiday Bill (Hon. W. F. Massey) 'was read a first time. ' ■ Reporting to the Wairarapa Hospital Board, District Nurse Nickless, of Eketahuna, says: "Judging front my. -experience here, Ithink'tlie district nurse scheme a most usefvi one, and I cannot understand why more districts do not appoint a nunse."

On the motion, of Mr T. V. Moore* the Wairarapa Hospital Board yesterday decided to recommend - tlitf Finance, Committee and; Centra) Committee to furnish a report of their proceedings to the m.mbers of the Board, at least one week beforo the general meetings of the Board. . The work of a district nurse is not all,, sunshine. In her report to the Wairarapa Hospital Board," District Nuijse Nickless, who is stationed 3S;. the Kketahuna district, says that oil one occasion she attended three patients ia five days, And to reach theso patients she haa motored fifty mires, driven twenty,;' boach'ed' twelve, and travelled eight by rail. District Ifurse Jones, reporting to.; the Wairarapa Hospital Board, says: "For fhe first year, thslnitiatfog re- ' suits seem-successful, but we hope to see better results this year, as the general prejudice to the district nur« sea is wearing off. I have had several inquiries from the country, asking; for information regarding the feeding of babies." At the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board Mr J. C. Ewington mov- •&& that a third district nurse be pro-' voided,. whose services will be available for the Lower Valley. Mr. Ew - - ihgton thought the time had arrived when such" a nurse should be s&ctn> ed. Mr McLeod seconded the # motion, which was carried, on the voices. A sum of £lO 15s appeared in tho treasurer's statement of the Wairarapa Hospital Board for the purchase of pigs. 'Tigs f Pigs [" muttered a member, "What do we wan?", piffff for ?" The: chairman of the : Central Committee stated that a cow . had been purchased'for use at the Masterton Hospital, and ft : had been decided to procure a few. pigs to, consume the refuse of the institution. The annual report of the District Nurse Committee was - presented at the meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital and CBaritabfe Aid; Board yesterday." This Bhowed that, in the early part of 1912 a sum of £384 was collected in Maatertoir through tho efforts of the local branch of the St John Ambulance Brigade, for the formation of a District Nurse Fund. To, this was added' a Government subsidy of 24s in the pound, bringing the total of the fund up to £845. The committee held' its first meeting on March 26th, 1912, and two nur-, ses had since been working in the district.

A reward' is offered' to finder of ri bttnch of keys lost between the railway station and Post Office. Messrs E. B. Hare and Co. have some cheap properties for sale and to lease. Head tlieii' advertisement in tftis issue. A meeting of all' those' interested iix the Town Beautifying Society will .bo lield • in' . the Borough- Council Chambers to-morrow evening at 8 .©"clock-.. • . ' Messrs Evans and Dyer, Masterton, . notify that they have firewood for sale in any quantity,, delivered straight from- the paddock. Orders may be left with Mr tobacconist, Queen-street. Tfee last week: of' the- great sal© oi ctotMng,. mercery,. and' boots at tie N.Z. Clothing Factory iis announced. In a change advt. in this issue S a fejr prices are quoted!, which give some l indication l of the genuine bargains offering during this week. • In our advertising columns,, the iN.Z". Society of Accountants advise , intending candidates that entries for the professional and hook-keepers' examinations, 1919, close with the Registrar of the University, Wellington, on or before Ist September next. Tffe attention of diarymen, farmers and others is directed to a sale of dairy stock, horses, etc., to be conducted by the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Co., Ltd., on acount of Mr S. R. Buckeridge, of Kokotau, Carterton. Owing to Mr Buckeridge leaving the district the sale will be unreserved and will em» brace 24 very choice carefully selected Jersey cross cows, mostly third calvers, also 14 Holstein cross two and 3-year springing heifers which were bred for vendor's own use, farm mare, hacks, implements, poultry, household furniture, etc. EXCRUCIATING RHEUMATISM, "For years I could not get relief from the excruciating pains of rheumatism," writes Mrs Jane Pierce, 1340 Sturt-street, Ballarat, Vic. "I started using Chamberlain's Pain Balm and the first bottle showed the merits of the balm. At the first appearance of pain now I apply hot fomentations and have Chamberlain's Pain •> Balm well rubbed in - and it" -wards off all suffering. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers. * No Home should be without. the famous "Roslyn" Writing Pad, 100 sheets. Pretty picture of New Zealand's wonderland on the cover. Only 6s and 1# eaclj, from ftU ffc&K ers. Ask for it. *