Drunkenness Charge.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 May 1938, Page 6

Drunkenness Charge.

At the S.M. Court this morning, before Mr W. G. Lamb, J.P., a first offender for drunkenness was convicted and discharged.

Telephone Records. Records were made in telephone development and telephone business in New Zealand during the past financial year. Toll calls went up by 10.17 per cent, representing 1,337,036 more than the previous year, and bringing the total to 14,480,207. Not only was the telephone more extensively used, but the service was extended at a record rate. In December there were 1675 new connections. During the whole year the net increase in telephone connections was 9456, an advance of 7 per cent, a rate of expansion which has never previously been equalled. It brought the total number of telephones in use up to a record point of 147,846.

Whirokino Highway. Heavy rain has caused another rise in the level of the flood water, which yesterday covered the Whirokino highway south of Foxton to a depth of one foot two inches. The road was then impassable to all traffic except heavy cars and lorries. Motorists were advised to deviate through Shannon.

Power of Women’s Institutes. “If the Women’s Institutes united with one single voice nothing could stop us getting what we asked for,” said Miss E. Kane, a member of the Dominion executive, at a meeting of the South Taranaki federation at Hawera. The institutes numbered 35,000 members in their ranks and were by far the biggest women’s organisation in New Zealand. Nothing can withstand the demand of 30,000 women, needless to say the 30,000 husbands,” declared Miss Kane.