LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Homestead Destroyed. A well known Konini homestead, that owned by Mr Herbert Avery, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night. When the family returned from a visit to Pahiatua all that greeted them was two chimneys and a heap of twisted iron. New Police Station. Yesterday workmen began demolishing the police station at Palmerston North, and on the same site the building will begin shortly of a new station which, it is understood, will be accepted as a model for the Dominion. It will cost in the vicinity of £28,000. The new station will be a two-storied reinforced concrete building, the first of its kind in New Zealand. Infectious Diseases.

For the week ended April 19. 25 cases of infectious diseases and four deaths (three from tuberculosis and one from diphtheria) were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department. In the central Wellington area there were 13 cases of diphtheria, three of erysipelas, two of tuberculosis and one each of scarlet fever, septic abortion, hydatids, and undulant fever. In Nelson-Marlborough, one case of poliomyelitis (paralysed), one of scarlet fever and one of tuberculosis were reported. Easter Weddings.

Easter weddings were increasingly popular in Wanganui this year if the figures obtained from the registrar’s office are an indication. At the close of business on April 14, the day before Good Friday, 94 marriage certificates had been issued since January 1, an increase of 15 over the same period last year. For the month before Easter this year 30 certificates were issued, this number being seven fewer than last year. Twelve licences were issued during the week before Easter, as against 10 for the corresponding week last year.

Help for Chinese Students. A decision to launch an appeal for funds in aid of students who have been rendered destitute as a result of the war in China was made at the annual meeting of the New Zealand University Students’ Association, which was held in Auckland in conjunction with the Easter tournament. Committees are to be appointed in constituent colleges to organise an appeal which has been sponsored throughout the world by the Student Christian Movement. Mr A. P. Blair, president of the association, said over £lOO had already been subscribed toward the appeal by students of Otago University.