LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1938, Page 8

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bideford Golf Club. The opening of the Bideford Golf Club’s season will take place on Sunday next, when all members and friends are invited to be present. Building Permits. Three new dwellings were included in the eight building permits issued by the Masterton Borough Council during March. The value of the permits was £3343. For the corresponding month last year six permits were issued to the value of £1492 ss. Drivers’ Licences. Thirty-one drivers' licences were issued by the Masterton Borough Council during March, bringing the total to date to 2227. For the corresponding period last year 1999 licences were issued. The Masterton County Council issued 12 drivers’ licences duiing March, making the total to date 1265. Cattle Run Riot. Nine station cattle escaped from the Pahiatua saleyards on Wednesday morning, the result being that four beasts ran riot in Wakeman street One bullock was particularly wild and when in private property chaiged a would-be drover who had to run for shelter. Another beast stood guard in the middle of the road and chased everybody who ventured out. A stock agent had a busy time conveying in his car business people of the street down to work until drovers on horseback, with a pack of dogs, could control the herd. ,

The Louvre Museum. During the year 1937, according to statistics just published, 537,000 people visited the Louvre museum in Paris. The Louvre is one of the largest single buildings in the world. It covers an area of 40 acres; the Tower of London covers 13 acres. To walk round the Louvre one has to walk over a mile. There are two and a half miles of galleries within the building. The length of one side of the Louvre is as long as the whole of Fleet Street from Ludgate Circus to Chancery Lane.

Most people think of the Louvre as an art gallery containing sculpture and oil paintings. It contains much more than that, and is in fact a museum containing seven others. Two very interesting sections, unfortunately often missed by visitors unaware of their existence, are the ancient furniture museum and the naval museum. In the furniture section there is a treasure of the most magnificent furniture that graced the homes of the nobility in the seventeenth and eighteenth century. Here are large tables and inlaid desks and whole suites of furniture, to say nothing of rare carpets, in fact everything that made the mansions of the time of Louis XV and Louis XVI beautiful. The naval museum contains hundreds of models of every kind of craft that has sailed the seas, from the coracle of the days of the Ancient Britons to gilded galleons, ancient men-of-war, with their lines of guns peepping from the portholes, to clippers that raced from Australia to Europe, and models of the very latest liners that cross the Atlantic in five days.

Bankruptcy. . One bankruptcy was registered in the Wairaraap during March. This has been the only bankruptcy during the current year. Masterton Harriers. The Masterton Harrier Club will hold its first preliminary run of the season at the Park Oval to-morrow, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The official opening of the club will now take place on April 30, instead of April 23, as previously arranged. College Cricket. In the annual cricket match between St. Matthew’s Collegiate School for Girls and the Fathers’ team, played at the College ground yesterday afternoon, the former won an exciting game by 154 runs to 146.

Large Stingray Caught. While netting flounders off Flat Rock, Tamaki, this week, Messrs. P. M. and J. N. La Trobe and N. Udy, of Panmure, caught a large stingray which had been swimming outside the net for some time. The lish was 6ft. 9in. long, 4ft. Bin. broad and was estimated to weight about 3cwt. Dance.

The officers and other ranks of the Masterton platoons, Ist Battalion Hawkes’ Bay Regiment, will hold a dance in the Municipal Hall on Wednesday next, April 6, in honour of the visit of ‘B” Squadron, 4th Mounted Rifles Regiment (motorised), consisting ef about 90 men from Manawatu. The music will be supplied by the Blue River Dance Band and all who attend are assured of a happy evening’s entertainment. Lifting a T-pu. The Sir James Carroll Memorial House and surrounding marae, near Wairoa, have been closed to the public until after- April 12, when a ceremony will be performed by native priests to lift the tapu. The marae includes a burial ground and the old site of the Takitimu meeting house. The lifting of the tapu is a secret ceremony and will begin at midnight on April 11. Brighter Cricket.

The “brighter cricket campaign” was opened—-rather late in the season —at Christchurch on Saturday. As the bowler was raising his arm to bowl the umpire called a no-ball and the batsman rushed up to meet the ball and put plenty of force into a shot that looked like a six. His bewilderment when he saw that he had smashed an apple into pieces was enjoyed by the spectators and fieldsmen, the bowler in the meantime withdrawing the ball from his pocket. Homestead Destroyed. “Little Roderick” homestead, near Hakataramea, Canterbury, where Lord Kitchener stayed as the guest of his sister, Mrs Parker, during his visit to New Zealand shortly before the Great War, has been burned to the ground. The house, which was built by Mrs Parker more than 40 years ago, was situated on a hill on the Station Peak Road, about seven miles from Hakataramea, and has been shown to many hundreds of visitors to the district as “the house where Lord Kitchener stayed.” It was a single-storeyed wooden structure of seven rooms.

Point-to-Point Meeting At a meeting of the Pahiatua Racing Club stewards, Messrs G. H. Wade and Vai Tripe waited on them with a request to use the course for a point-to-point meeting to be held in conjunction with associate members of the Dannevirke Hunt Club. The request was granted, the deputation being given to understand that the course proper was only to be used for the finish of each event, and that a sum of £lO must be deposited against any damage that may be sustained, £5 to be refunded in the event of no damage being done. With reference to the foregoing, Mr T. G. Nelson, secretary of the Dannevirke Hunt Club, informed a representative of the “Evening News” that the proposal was to stage an additional point-to-point meeting and that it was not intended in any way to interfere with the annual point-to-point fixture of the Dannevirke Club which was held at Takapau.