LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 9 February 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Solway Sunday School ‘picnic is to be held at Mount Holdsworth on Saturday February 19.

N. C. Dwyer, a jockey, who was injured at the Tapamri races, Otago, when the horse he was riding fell, died last night without regaining consciousness.—(P.A.).

R. A. Rose has advised the Wellington Amateur Athletic Association that he will be unable to accompany the Wellington team to Auckland for the ’.championships meeting. A, D. Priestley will till Rose’s place.—(P.A.).

Our special correspondent at Rotorua telegraphed last evening that Kerr and Perry, both of Masterton, continuing their play in the Rotorua bowling tournament, had now live wins and three wins and two losses respectively, to their credit.

The broadcasting station 4YA, Dunedin, will be closed on Friday evening, on account of the official opening of the Christchurch 3YA station. All owners of receiving sets are advised to invite their friends to listen to the opening ceremony.

At a meeting of ladies of the Ihuraua Valley held yesterday afternoon in the hall, it was decided to compete in the baby competition being held 1h connection with the effort of the Masterton Plunket Society to raise money for its funds.

The total rates levied by the Masterton County Council for the year 192627 amounted to £25,164 13s lid. Of this amount £24,511 18s 9d was collected to January 31, leaving £652 15s 2d ■outstanding, a percentage of 2.76. The damaged liner, Northumberland, which put back to Gisborne last week after leaving for Auckland, sailed again for the northern port at 4.45 p.m. yesterday in company with the Union Steamship Company’s tug Terawhiti. The sea is still calm. —(P.A.).

The Masterton Chamber of Commerce advised the Masterton County Council at its meeting yesterday that they would be pleased to assist in making any representations to the Highways Board in connection with the taking over the road between Masterton and Taueru. The letter was received.

George Powell Gough (26) pleaded guilty yesterday afternoon at Blenheim to three charges of forgery and uttering cheques, purporting to be jdrawn by E. C. Watts, a lighthouse-keeper at Cape Campbell. He was committed for sentence at the Supreme Court in Blenheim on February 15. Bail was not asked for. The accused also admitted issuing two valueless cheques at Christchurch.—(P.A.).

One of the special features at thff Solway Show on Tuesday and Wednesday next, will <be the weight-judging competition. The prizes for the bullock are £lO first, £2 second, and £1 third, with a special prize of a gold wristlet watch to the lady judging the exact or nearest weight. The whole of the proceeds from the bullock and sheep-guess-ing competition will go to the society’s funds. A liberal demand fpr tickets is anticipated.

Private advice has been received in Auckland that the braquestono Ysabel has been burned to the water’s edge and is a total loss in the Eastern Pacific. The, Ysabel was bu It in Auckland in 187! lu* the Melanesian Mission, being the Southern Cross. The her aft r nineteen years anl re/1 red her wiM the present steamer, the Southern Cross. The Ysabel was subsequently used in the Niue Is l aad trade and was purchased by a French firm in Tahiti in 1925.— (D.A.). George Anderson, aged 22, a native of Australia, who was engaged in fencing work on Horokiwi Hill, Petone, disappeared from the whare he was occupying about a week ago and has not been found. It is reported that he came into Wellington but returned to his whare and changed into his working clothes, presumably to start work again. A suit of clothes and other belongings are still in the whare. Anderson had a mate named Petherick, but the latter, during Anderson’s absence, left a note in the whare stating that ho was giving up the job and would not return. Tfie police are endeavouring to obtain information from Petherick, but at present they do not know where lie is.—(P.A.).'

Additional sawmills in the Hokitika district are closing down owing to lack of orders, including the Kanieri saw* mill at Hokitika, and Stuart, Chapman Ltd., at Ross. Thirty men arc involved in the former and sixty in the latter. Other mills employing considerable numbers are likely to be affected similarly in the near future. The Westland County Council resolved to be represented in a deputation’ to wait on the Prime Minister on his return, to urge remedial action to assist the milling industry. The effects of the stoppage of the mills was most serious to that district.—(P.A.).