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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1938, Page 6

Infectious Diseases. Five infectious diseases cases occurred in the Borough of Masterton during March. Motor Licenses. During March there were 27 applications made to the Masterton Borough Council for motor licenses, and three failed to pass the necessary test. Gospel Hall Service. The Story of Job is the subject of address from the Wonderful Chart on Sunday night at 7 o’clock at the Ruhamah Gospel Hall, Queen Street. Sunny Nelson. The sunshine experienced in Nelson during the month of March totalled 231 hours 30 minutes, which gave an average of 7 hours 28 minutes clear sunshine a day. Relief of Distress. The Women’s Welfare League make an appeal for warm clothing for the relief of distress in China. Parcels (marked Two Garment Society), may be left up till Wednesday next at the Town Clerk’s office. St. Matthew’s Church. Special Lent services will be continued at St. Matthew’s to-morrow. The preacher at the Choral celebration at 11 a.m. will be the Rev. T. V. Pearson. At 7 p.m. the Rev. E. J. Rich will conclude the course of Lent sermons on “God’s Call to this Age” speaking on “Abiding with God.”

Napier's Dry Month. March was an exceptionally dry month at Napier, only 84 points of rain falling during that time. On only two days of the month was there no sunshine, total hours of sunshine being 243.1, or 7.84 a day. On March 3 Napier had 12.3 hours of sunshine. The hottest day was March 21, when the thermometer reached 85 deg.

Rugby Almanack. The Rugby Almanack of New Zealand for 1938, edited by Messrs. A. H. Carman, A. C. Swan and Read Masters, contains a complete record of international and interprovincial matches in the Dominion last season. It is a publication of considerable value to the follower of football, and contains interesting comments on leading players. G. H. Brand, L. Babrow, P. J. Nel, R. M. McKenzie and C. A. Crossman are selected as the five best players for 1937.

Mr. Stockwell’s Farewell. The Rev. G. F. Stockwell will conclude his ministry at Wesley Church to-morrow. In the morning the subject will be “Limitation and Co-oper-ation,” the Junior Choir singing the anthem “March with Singing.” In the evening Mr Stockwell will preach his. farewell sermon on “The Unchanging Christ in a Changing World,” and the Choir will sing the anthems “Conquering Kings” and “Rejoice the Lord is King.” Mr. Stockwell lyill also preach at Wangaehu at 2.30 p.m. The Circuit quarterly meeting will be held on Monday, April 4, at 7 p.m., to be followed by a farewell social gathering to Mr and Mrs. Stockwell at 8 p.m. Mr. Harold Skurse will commence his ministry at Kuripuni preaching both morning and evening.

Lifting Telegraph Poles. The heavy and awkward operation of erecting the lofty poles for New Zealand’s telegraph and telephone lines is to be made easier and much more speedy through the more extensive use of mechanical power. Six winch trucks under construction in the Wellington workshops of the Post and Telegraph Department will shortly go into service and greatly reduce the amount of heavy manual labour needed in line construction and maintenance. The full power of the sixcylinder engine normally designed for propelling the truck can, at a touch of a lever be diverted to the running of a specially-constructed winch mounted on the chassis as part of the permanent equipment. Though it is powerful, the winch when out of use takes only a few feet of the deck space of this self-contained engineering unit, which carries to the job all the wire, cable, tools and poles, and then does the heaviest lifting. The winch is under very complete control from the driver’s cab, and it is used in conjunction with a tripod of hollow steel tubes, one being telescopic so as to give almost the same adjustment facilities as an ordinary crane. While the winch is being used, the chassis is supported at the back on heavy bottle jacks, which have simply to be swung down into position.