LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Wairarapa Age, 15 March 1927, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The annual picnic of St. Patrick’s School will be held at Solway Showgrounds on Thursday (St. Patrick’s Day). In the Empire billiards championship, third heat, a London message states, Coles 2000, beat Smith, 1445. Breaks, Coles 164, Smith 80. Mrs. E. Leydon, of Pabnerston North, has been engaged to sing at St. Patrick's concert on Thursday evening. Leading local talent will also appear.

A’ commission consisting of Messrs H. W. Mackintosh (Commissioner of Crown Lands), F. P. Fowler (district valuer) and W. I. Armstrong, of Masttrton, has been appointed to consider the matter of the proposed alteration of the boundaries between the Eketahuna and Pahiatua Counties at Hamua.

Representatives of the various county councils in the Wairarapa assembled in Masterton yesterday for the purpose of affixing seals to some thirty-eight documents regarding the adoption of joint counties’ by-laws. The councils represented were: Eketahuna, Akitio, .Castlepoint, Mauriceville, Mastertou, Wairarapa South and Featherston.

Dr. J. A. Cowie and Mr. G. W. Sellar, at yesterday’s luncheon of the Masterton Rotary Club, spoke in interesting vein on. the Auckland Rotary Conference recently held. The president, Dr. G. H. Uttley, was in the chair. Mention was made of the many outstanding addresses delivered by Rotarians at the conference.

A total of 244 immigrants (74 men, 99 women, 71 children) arrived in Wellington yesterday by the Ruapehu. The destination of tho immigrants is as follows: Auckland 75, Gisborne 2, Napier 4, New Plymouth 9, Wanganui 9, Wellington 76, Greymouth 2, Lyttelton 23, Timaru 16, Dunedin 19, Bluff 9.—(P.A.). The British Columbia Liberal Party Convention, a cablegram states, endorsed a resolution that the Federal and British Columbia Governments should discontinue assisted immigration to Canada, declaring that it was against spending public money, either Federal or provincial, for the purpose of assisting immigration. The Bishop pf London was tendered a civic reception by a crowded gathering of citizens at the Christchurch Council Chambers yesterday, the Mayor (Rev. J. K. Archer) presiding. “The most rickety railway that I have ever been on is the one from Wellington to Auckland,” said the Bishop, speaking yesterday morning of his experiences in New Zealand.

Thieves are operating in the Greytown district. A short time ago one or two houses in the Morison’s Bush district were entered while the occupants were absent, and money and other articles taken. On Saturday night, when Mr. and Miss Eagar, of Wood Street, were attending a dance, their residence was entered, and £2 or £3 taken from the trouser pockets of some Wellington visitors. A suggestion that the Tararua Power Board should run a community bakery establishment was contained in the report of the secretary-manager submitted at a meeting of the board in Eketahuna last week. He claimed that the board had substantial means at its disposal to give effect to the policy, which would benefit the whole body of consumers. The night load only supplied water heaters, otherwise it went begging. A committee was set up to go into the matter. At the monthly meeting of the Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Bailway Servants of New Zealand, hold in Dunedin on Sunday, the following resolution was carried: “That this meeting of the Otago branch of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants takes strong exception to (he proposal of the Government to pay married men 12s per day, and single 'men 9s per day on proposed unemployed relief works. It is considered that its action is a direct attack on tib* workers’ standard of living.”—(P.A.).

A charge or recklessly driving a tnptor-cycle and side-car at Avondale on January 9, thereby causing the death of Stanley Horace Baster, a passenger in the side-car was brought against Stanley Roy Allen in the Police Court at Auckland yesterday. The police quoted a statement made by the accused, in which he said the lights of an approaching motor car, which were full on, blinded him and when the car’s lights were dimmed he saw the 'bus iu front of him. The accused swerved suddenly to avoid the 'bus, whereupon the side-car caused the cycle to capsize. Baster died from, injuries sustained in the accident. The accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial.— (P.A.). Crowds, the like of which have never previously been seen at the Christchurch Cathedral, assembled there on Sunday to hear the address of the Bishop of London, but between 2000 and 3000 people had to be excluded from the service on account of the lack of accommodation. Queues began to assemble outside the doors of tho cathedral shortly after 5 o’clock, and by 6.30 the numbers had swelled tremendously. Many who had waited for over an hour were unable to gain admittance when the doors of the building were closed at 6.45, fifteen minutes before the service was timedto commence. Every available seat in the Cathedral was occupied and the service was broadcasted, receivers being installed in many of the suburban and country churches.