LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Indoor Basketball. Further games in the inter-house indoor basketball competition, being conducted by the Masterton Y.M.C.A., were played this week. The results are as follow: —C. Smith, Ltd., beat Faulkners, 20/8; Harcombes beat Hamills, 22/15.

Card Evening. The combined ladies' hockey clubs held a most enjoyable 500 card evening in the Odd Fellows’ Hall last night, when, in spite of the unfavourable weather, there was a large attendance. The winners of the prizes were Mrs R. Foster and Mr C. Spiers, and the consolation prizes went to Mrs D. Andrews and Mrs K. Welch. It is intended to hold another card evening next week. Table Tennis.

The Wairarapa Table Tennis Association has made final arrangements to meet a representative team of men and ladies from the Wanganui Association in the Masterton Y.M.C.A. rooms tomorrow night. The personnel of the Wairarapa team has been altered on account of the inability of J. Nicholls and R. Clarke to play. Their places have been taken by J. Haywood and F. Bodie. Work Not Wanted?

“We have the greatest difficulty in finding anyone prepared to go into a home where there is a sick person in bed requiring someone beside them to assist with food and so on,” said Sister V. H. Collins, sister in charge of the St John District Nursing Guild, Wellington, in an interview yesterday. “There are .a number of women in Wellington in receipt of 14s a week sustenance money,” she added, “but they apparently prefer to accept that and do nothing, even when we offer to subsidise the amount to £1 a week.” Lantern Lecture.

A very interesting lantern lecture was given in the Salvation Army Hall on Tuesday evening by Mr T. W. Graham, who spoke on his experiences in Shanghai and elsewhere to a large audience. Views in Ireland were also shown, including several of Enniskillen. Captain Mahaffie presided. Mr Trudgeon said he had much pleasure in moving a hearty vote of thanks to Mr Graham, as his grandfather was a soldier in the famous 6th Inniskilling Dragoons. The very powerful electric lantern used was kindly loaned by the Rev E. J. Rich, and was efficiently operated by Mr Jones. Each picture told a story of trials and triumphs of religious faith in the Near and Far East.

Labour Candidates. The New Zealand Labour Party will have 78 candidates in the field for the general election. Of this number 76 have been endorsed, including Messrs J. Robertson (Masterton), Ben Roberts (Wairarapa) and G. A. Hansen (Pahiatua). Three candidates previously approved have found it necessary to withdraw owing to unavoidable circumstances—Messrs W. C. Simpson (Patea), A. G. Ogilvie (Stratford) and Matu Rangi (Eastern Maori). Mr Ogilvie was replaced by Mr J. W. McMillan. It is expected that the candidates for the other two seats will be endorsed in a week or two. The Labour Party does not intend to oppose Mr H. Atmore, M.P. (Nelsen) or Mr D. McDougall, M.P. (Mataura).

Estimates of Time. The difference between a minute and a moment was' emphasised by Mr Justice Callan in the Supreme Court at Auckland during the hearing of a pedestrian’s claim for damages against the owner of a taxi-cab involved in a collision. Several witnesses had been asked by counsel to estimate the length of time between two happenings. His Honour warned the witnesses to be very careful in making a reply, and not to say minutes when perhaps they meant moments. “A minute, as one eminent judge in New Zealand has said, is to say to yourself, ‘Jack Robinson, Jack Robinson,’ 60 times,” he said. “Do this and you get one minute.”

Housing in Counties. A reported statement by the Leader of the Opposition (the Hon A. Hamilton) that not a single house had been built in county areas under the Government’s housing scheme was denied in the House of Representatives by the member for Masterton (Mr J. Robertson). “In my own district,” Mr Robertson stated, “the Masterton County Council and Eketahuna County Council have both obtained money under the three per cent scheme, and have built houses for their own workers. Their action is, I am sure, typical of the action of other local bodies throughout the Dominion. Every one admits that the farmers are faced with the problem of accommodation for married farm workers, but the Government is tackling the matter, and I am satisfied that it will tackle that problem as energetically and as successfully as it has tackled others.”

Extradition Appeal. Brought to Auckland to determine a disputed question of extradition law between Australia and New Zealand, the Court of Appeal concluded its sitting yesterday. Decision was reserved. The Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) presided. ' The matter before the court was a motion for a writ of mandamus to compel Mr C. R. OrrWalker, S.M., to hear and determine an application by Detective-Sergeant C. E. Godwin, of the New South Wales police, for his endorsement of an extradition warrant. Mr Godwin is the plaintiff and Mr Orr-Walker the defendant. The Crown was represented by the Attorney-General, the Hon H. G. R. Mason, and Mr C. E. EvansScott, Wellington. Mr T. Henry and Mr’ F. McCarthy appeared for Karl Jacob Regner, the man for whom the extradition warrant has been issued. A New Magistrate.

The appointment of Mr William Carrol Harley, barrister, of Nelson, as a magistrate is announced in last night’s “Gazette.” Mr Harley will arrive at Wellington on Monday. It is not yet known where he will be stationed. Mr Harley, who is prominent in the public life of Nelson, was born in 1888 at Nelson. He was educated at Nelson College and at Canterbury College, where he took his LL.B, in 1911. He started in practice as a barrister and solicitor in Nelson in 1913, and on the outbreak of the Great War enlisted in the New Zealand Rifle Brigade, in which he rose to the rank of captain. In 1919 he resumed practice in Nelson. Mr Harley was a member of the Nelson City Council from 192125, and is a member of the Nelson Harbour Board, on which he has served for five years. He is chairman of the Nelson Patriotic Society and was president of the Nelson College Old Boys' Association for five years and has been a member of the college board of governors for about seven years.