Visiting Soccer Team.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 May 1938, Page 6

Visiting Soccer Team.

Advice having been received from the Wairarapa sub-association that a third grade team would not be too weak to play the country team, the management committee of the Wellington Football Association at its meeting last night decided to invite the Diamond club to send its third division team to Masterton on May 28. The subassociation is to be asked for its assistance toward the cost of providing meals. Wanganui Man Missing. The Wanganui police are making inquiries as to the whereabouts of Donald McKay, Mathiesbn Street, Wanganui, who has been missing from his home since last Monday. Mr McKay is aged 68, fair-haired, sft 7in in height, clean-shaven and walks with a limp. When last seen on Monday at 9 a.m. he was dressed in brown trousers, an old brown coat, white shoes and a brown hat. He is a married man with a family and was employed some years ago on the Wanganui tramways. Tasman Air Service. Discussions concerning the projected trans-Tasman air service took place' in Wellington yesterday, between Ministers of the Crown and Mr A. E. Rudder, personal representative in Australia of Imperial Airways and a director of Qantas Empire Airways. In an interview last evening, the Prime Minister, Rt Hon M. J. Savage, said that discussions in the morning with Mr Rudder had been attended by the Minister of Finance, Hon W. Nash, the Minister of Marine, Hon P. Fraser and himself. They had been continued in the afternoon between Mr Rudder and Mr Nash. “I hope to be able to make an announcement shortly regarding the establishment of the air service across the Tasman,” said Mr Savage. Mr Rudder left on his return to Sydney by the Awatea, which sailed from Wellington last night. Liberation of Insects. The concern with which the Government viewed the introduction oi' liberation in New Zealand of insects of an allegedly harmless nature by individuals who sought to add what appeared to them to be attractive types to our local fauna, was referred to yesterday by the Minister in charge of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Hon D. G. Sullivan. It was, he said, the well-defined policy of the Government to discourage the random importation and liberation of insects in the Dominion. “Probably it is not generally known that the importation of insects is prohibited by Order-in-Council, gazetted on January 16, 1936, save with the consent of the Minister of Internal Affairs,” he said. “In view of the very extensive damage which the Dominion already suffers each year through the ravages of insects which have been introduced, for the most part inadvertently, there should be no need for anyone to emphasise the need for such restriction.”