LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 14 February 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Dairy Control Board has advised the Master ton. Co-operative Dairy Company that on February 4 controlled butter was* quoted in London, at 171 s 6d and 173 s 4d per cwt.

The Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company’s make of butter for last November and December was over 21,311 lbs. more than in the corresponding months of the previous year. It has been decided to pay out Is 2d per lb. for finest, and other grades in -proportion according to the regulations.

A fall from a motor cycle at Pononby early yesterday morning resultfl in James O’Kano, aged 26, receiving evere injuries to his head. He was ■vidently riding so elose to the edge if the road that the machine struck a roe bordering the road. The patient vas still unconscious yesterday afterioon.- —(P.A.)

Largo numbers of Wairarapa residents visited the Lake Ferry yesterday and fishing enthusiasts were liberally rewarded for their efforts. In one haul 400 kahawai were landed, and all present shared, in the bounteous harvest secured. The kahawai were of large size. Many were taken on the minnow. The sea was dead calm.

The large numbers of pupils and parents who attended the annual picnic of St. Matthew ’s Sunday School at Willow Park on Saturday spent a most enjoyable day under ideal conditions. There wore many races and liberal prizes for the young folk. The arrangements for the gathering were made by members of the teaching staff.

The ideal weather of yesterday caused an exodus of Masterton residents to the. many favoured picnic grounds in the vicinity, where the comfort of a shady spot beneath the trees or a refreshing dip in the waters of some river, brought welcome relief, for the day was the hottest experienced this summer. The temperature in the shade at 1 p.m. reached 93 degrees Fahrenheit.

Lyle Margaret Stella Ratcliffe, 10| years of age, was drowned on Saturday afternoon in the Thorndon (Wellington) bath, when going to the assistance of Minnie Day, who had got out of her depth. The caretaker, Mr. E. Waters, was informed that a girl’s clothes were in a dressing room and the girl could not- be found. He dived in, swaw under water and found the girl I lying on the bottom, face upwards. The 1 baths were crowded; but no one can be I found why saw the Oeeurienco.-—(P.A.) Shortly before elevefi o'clock ou Saturday night, a Gisborne Press Association message reports, a taxi driven by A. Littler went over a bridge between Kaiterutahi and Tekaraka and capsised into the bed of the creek, eight feet below. One passenger named Robert Scott, thirty-eight years of age, with no relatives in the Dominion, employed as a bush worker at Te Rata Station, Whatatutu, was killed. Another passenger, Mrs. Denton, a Maori woman, is now in hospital with body injuries which so far as is known at present, are not serious. Two other men passengers and the driver escaped with bruises.

A copy of the award agreed upon between dairy factory employees and employers has been received by the Masterton Co-operative Dairy Company. The Co-operative Dairy Company. Tho award is held over, however, as a slight adjustment has to be made before the Arbitration Court. The company has also received four advance copies of the special New Zealand edition of the “London Times,” to be published on February 23. An application has been received from a large North Island dairy factory for a copy of the books and forms in use under the new regulations of tho Masterton factory, it being understood that the local company had a particularly good system.

Mr. H. E. Holland, M.P., Leader of the Opposition, delivered a public address in the Westport Town Hall on Saturday evening on the position in China. He said that Britain should fellow Russia’s example and meet China on a footing of complete international equality, hand back all Concessions and relinquish every right of extra-territor-iality and along with it every measure of internal interference, such as control of Customs, etc. Britain had everything to lose and nothing to gain by war. The Labour Party would use whatever influence it might possess to ensure that whatever re-arrangements made would bo by processes of reason and not the arbitrament of the sword. Rights of exploitation held by British industrial capitalists and financial magnates in China were not worth the sacrifice of a British-soldier’s life. If they should succeed in involving Britain in war on their behalf, he would never be a party to New' Zealand taking part in it.—(P.A.)