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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fall Proves Fatal

As a result of a fall in Auckland city on Saturday night. Alexander James Baron, aged 69, Point Chevalier, fractured his skull. His death occurred yesterday in hospital.

East School Dance. The Masterton East School Association held a successful social evening in the school on Saturday. Mr I. Barnes played the music for the dancing. The winners of the Monte Carlo competitions were Miss V. Constable and Mr I. Bell, and the winners of the lucky spot competition, Mrs Reardon and Mr A. A. Ball. Messrs P. Ward and G. Selby acted as M’s.C. Clergy Trade Union. A trade union of clergymen “for mutual protection and co-operative witness,” is being organised in England by the Socialist Christian League, of which Mr George Lansbury. M.P., is president. The Rev George Doble, a Church of England vicar and organising secretary of the League, said that members of the new union hoped to become chaplains of labour, unions.— International Christian Press' and Information Service. Bakers’ Dispute Settled. After conferring all day with the Minister of Labour, the Hon H. T. Armstrong, who arrived in Auckland from Wellington on Saturday, the parties to the bakers’ dispute reached an agreement. The men are offering themselves for duty again this morning. On the Minister’s suggestion a tribunal will be appointed to consider the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of a worker, which was the cause of the drivers’ strike. Each side agreed to abide by the tribunal’s decision. The agreement averts the possibility of a serious position in the baking industry. Nothing Dramatic. There has been nothing that could really be termed dramatic in cancer research' for many years, said Dr W. Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital and chairman of the Cancer Consultation Committee, in commenting on the cablegram) from. London today reporting “dramatic advances." Many hundreds of face, lip, and skin cases, he said, were treated annually at Auckland and there was a very high percentage of complete cures. The profession had come to expect cures rather than failures. An interesting fact was that cancer of the face was more common in the North Island than in the South Island. This was associated with the fact of strong sunlight in the north. There was a very real danger in constant over-exposure to the sun. Railing of Lime.

“The position is stupid and absurd,” said Mr T. H. Langford, No. 3 Transport Licensing Authority, when commenting in Christchurch on the free carriage of lime for farmers by the railways. During the hearing of an application for a renewal of a goods service licence mention was made of back-load-ing and of the service given to farmers in regard to lime, and Mr Langford pointed out that 1200 tons of lime had been taken to Mount Somers, and 4000odd tons had been railed away. Apparently farmers in the district had shares in limeworks other than those at Mount Somers, and preferred to get their requirements from them. Mr Langford said the cost of railing lime to farmers last year was £15,000, and it could have been done for half the price. Up to six tons of lime are transported free, and for additional tonnage a low rate is charged. Drunken Drivers.

A warning that if the present penalties being imposed by New Zealand magistrates on motorists convicted of being' intoxicated in charge of vehicles did not stop offences, he would provide for more severe punishment, was given by the Minister of Transport, the Hon R. Semple. He said if necessary he would tighten the law and impose greater penalties. “The drunken driver is a potential murderer, and society has got to get rid of him,” Mr Semple said. He also expressed his wholehearted approval of the recent action of Auckland magistrates in sending to prison certain offenders. “Caution after caution fell on deaf ears, and when you cannot make any impression on people’s minds by moral persuasion and warning, the only thing is to deal with them just as the magistrates are doing,” he continued. “The magistrates are doing the right thing. I am very pleased with the attitude the- magistrates of this country are taking up. I am sure it will have a beneficial effect.”

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Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi

https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/WAITA19380516.2.41

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1938, Page 6

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Tapeke kupu
704

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 May 1938, Page 6

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