LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 10 February 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

At a conference of Otago county councils yesterday it was decided to adopt uniform by-laws for the whole province.—(P.A. J. There is still on sign of Mr. Harold J. Crewe, who has been missing from his home at Kai tun a. for the past fortnight. Further search parties will scour the district. At a meeting of the executive of the Pahiatua Swimming Club, it was mentioned by the chairman that during the past 16 years over 700 local children had been taught the art of swimming, a remarkably fine achievement.

The Tairei County Jubilee celebrations were commenced at Mosgicl on Tuesday evening, when the principal speakers at the banquet were the Hon. A. D. McLeod, Sir James Allen, Mr. J. W. Blair (chairman), and Sir George Fen wick.—( P.A.).

Mabel Jennings appeared in the Police Court at Christchurch yesterday on two charges of having undertaken to tell fortunes. Mr. Stacey, for the defendant, pleaded not guilty, saying defendant was in poor circumstances, having been deserted by her husband. The evidence of two police matrons was that they had visited defendant’s house and had had readings. One was told of places in the New Year, with some hints about a dark man and a blue limousine, and told also she would marry next year. After hearing the evidence, Mr. St&ccy withdrew the plea of not guilty. The defendant was fined £2.—(P.A.).

Badges were the subject of a brief discussion at the meeting of the gen* oral committee of the Masterton A. and P Association yesterday. One member suggested that committeemen might wear rosettes or something a little better than a mere ribbon. The secretary (Mr. Williams) disposed in short order of a proposal that permanent budges might be supplied. The author of the proposal observed that the wearers of badges of course would have to hand them in after each Show. “Oh, they wouldn’t do it,” said Mr. Williams with quiet finality, and there, or thereabouts, the matter was dropped.

A recent example of vandalism at the Solway Showgrounds was reported upon at the meeting of the general committee of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday. The secretary (Mr. Williams) said that the police had obtained information implicating two or three Carterton boys, and desired to be furnished with an estimate of the value of the damage done. The chairman. (Mr. Perry) said ho was glaa the boys were not of Masterton. Mr. R.. J. Barton, on being appealed to, said that it was impossible to assess the value of the damage done. Some of the vines broken down had perhaps taken a hundred years to grow.

An application by Captain Sugden (Area Officer) for the use of the Solway Showgrounds for a Mounted Rifles camp in April next was before the committee of the A. and P. Association yesterday. While members were inclined generally to look upon the application with favour, some fears were expressed that in the event of wet weather three or four hundred men and horses might cut the place up badly. Aftr some discussion, it was agreed that the ground committee should confr with the Defence Department representatives regarding the amount to be paid for the use of the ground and other matters.

An outstanding feature of the Masterton Show this year will be a splendid exhibition of fat lambs. Exhibits in this category are likely to outclass anything to be »een in any other part of the Dominion. In spite of the prejudice in favour of lambs of a rather light type, the heavy lambs produced in the Wairarapa are taking an. increasingly important place in export trade. Per head they return considerably more to the producer than lambs of a lighter type. The lighter lambs in some instances return more per pound, but experts are agreed that when a balance is struck between producing , costs and returns, the heavy lambs will easily hold their own.

Matters calculated to produce more efficiency amongst borough council officers throughout New Zealand wede discussed at a conference of town clerks held in Palmerston North yesterday for the purpose of forming a Town Clerks’ Association. It was explained that New Zealand was lagging behind other parts of the Empire in this respect. The formation of the proposed organisation was approved. In extending the town’s welcome to the delegates, the Mayor, Mr. F. J. Nathan, pointed out that the city fathers lean'C(i heavily on the shoulders of their executive officers. Mr. P. Skoglund, of Stratford, convener of the conference, presided, and outlined the aims and objects of the new association.

A sharp difference of opinion was disclosed at the meeting of the Masterton A. and P. Association yesterday over a proposal submitted in a letter from Mr. F. Norris, secretary of the P.I.M. Committee. Mr. Norris asked that his committee should be allowed to put on some boys to sell postcard pictures of the Showgrounds while the Show was in progress. Mr. Kemp moved that the request be declined. Supporting this motion, Mr. D. Ogilvy said that if one request of the kind were agreed to, other people would seek a similar privilege. Urging that the request should be agreed to, Mr. D. Caselberg said that it was a matter of ad'vertising their own ground. Had it been anything outside of that, he would have agreed with Mr. Ogilvy. Mr. Kemp said that if they were going to have people going around cadging, patrons of the Show would be annoyed. Mr. A. H. Falloon maintained that Mr. Norris should be encouraged. Mr. Caselberg said that every case of this kind should be considered on its merits. On a show of hands, it was decided by nine votes to eight to grant the P.I.M. Committee the permission for which it had asked.