LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 July 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

False Alarm. The Masterton Fire Brigade was called out this morning at 10.37 o’clock in response to an alarm from the street box at the corner of Chapel and Wrigley streets. The alarm proved to be a false one, having been given by a flve-year-old child. Oranges and Lemons. A Raorikia. Wanganui, farmer has produced a fine crop of oranges in his homestead garden this year. He has also had success with grapefruit, one tree having nearly 40 fruit ready for picking at the present time. Lemons also do remarkably well at Raorikia, and this year they have been more prolific than ever before. Trawling Dispute. The trawlers Futurist and Nora Niven are still held up at Wellington because of the dispute between the crews and the owners, New Zealand Fisheries, Ltd. The owners, however, have agreed to meet representatives of the New Zealand Seamen’s Union on Monday to see whether it is possible to reach a settlement.

A Hardy Veteran. What must constitute a record for enthusiasm was given at the Dominion conference of the South African War Veterans’ Association by the Auckland delegate (Mr A. G. Bertram) in his report. At the annual reunion in Auckland recently, Mr Bertram said, one veteran, 72 years of age, cycled 96 miles from Cambridge to Auckland to be present. Credit Business.

Maintaining that credit business was not to be despised, Mr W. L. Thomas told members of the Canterbury Advertising Club in an address that 99 per cent of the people purchasing on credit were fundamentally honest .and intended to pay. They were not out to take the businessman down, and, in a carefully-controlled 'business, credit loss was very low. A rapid turnover of credit meant better buying for the businessman, he said. Industries Publicity.

A subsidy of £lOO to the New Zealand Manufacturers’ Federation to assist in the distribution of a flew Zealand industries supplement to senior pupils in the schools has been approved by the Government. This information was given to the federation by the general secretary, Mr M. Rocke O’Shea, at its quarterly meeting yesterday. The publication, added Mr O'Shea, would supply interesting information about the various- Dominion industries, and would include the history and progress of some of the. large industries.

Bridge Worker Killed. . Royal Frank Chapman, a married man, aged 33, was killed in an accident at the Conway Bridge early yesterday. He was an employee of ’the Public Works Department, and was engaged on railway construction work for the South Island Main Trunk. Mr Chapman was on night shift, and at 3.20 a.m. was preparing to fire a shot under a cliff when a piece of rock fell on him from a height of about 10 feet. He died on the way to the Kaikoura Hospital. Praise for Negro Debaters.

In a letter to her parents (Mr and Mrs G. W. Morice, of Masterton) Miss Jean Morice, who is studying < home science at Otago University, makes complimentary reference to the American negro debaters, whom she heard debate against Otago University in His Majesty’s Theatre, Dunedin, on Wednesday last. She begins: “I do wish you could have heard the negroes debate. They were marvellous. They were really witty, and turned all their opponents’ arguments to their own side. They kept having jokes at their opponents’ expense, and at each others.”

The Art of Ploughing. Whether ploughmen at matches should concentrate on turning over the turf for utility purposes or should devote some of the time to straightening the furrows by hand, was discussed at the champion ploughing match at Invercargil this week. When the question was put to the judges they said that a ploughman’s task was to do the best possible work, and if he left uncovered furrows he would lose points. It was in the interests of the owner of the paddock that the land should be well ploughed, and therefore no objection could be taken to a ploughman going over his work to see that it was done thoroughly so long as he did not exceed the time limit. World Motor Tour. To keep an appointment to meet an English acquaintance in the bar of the Piccadilly Hotel, London, on December 14, two Auckland motorists will leave the Dominion on August 1 with their car to drive some 16,000 miles to England. They are Messrs D. N. Strang and R. W. Haddrell. Purely a pleasure trip, the journey has been carefully planned. The car is a closed model fitted with extra leaves in the springs, an additional petrol tank; giving a large touring range, and seats that can be adjusted to convert the car into a sleeper. It has already been thoroughly tested by a test run from Auckland to Mount Cook and back.

Art Scholarships. Nineteen entries from various parts of New Zealand have been received for the Carnegie travelling scholarship to be awarded this year by the Auckland Society of Arts. The scholarship is to assist promising New Zealand students in any of the creative arts, preferably painting, to further their education abroad. The grant for the establishment of the scholarship was made over two years ago by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, which appointed the council of the Auckland Society of Arts as trustees. The money was given on condition that the society provided a pound for pound subsidy. This is being contributed partly from the funds of the society and partly from donations.