LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 August 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

St Andrew Society. “Some Writers in Modern Scots" will be the subject of an address to be given at the St Andrew Society gathering to be held tonight in the Masonic Hall. commencing at 7.45 o'clock. Members are reminded that an evening will be held at Martinborough on Friday, August 12. Noxious Weeds on Farms.

Concern about the prevalence of noxious weeds on farm lands was voiced at a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Progress League. Mr I. L. M. Coop, a member of the league’s executive and president of the North Canterbury District of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, suggested that the league might press for further investigation into parasitical methods of control, particularly parasitical control of gorse and blackberry. The meeting referred the matter to the agricultural committee of the league. A New Industry.

The development of a new industry in New Zealand is linked with the visit to Auckland of Mr A. M. Ondreyco, chief metallurgist of the Meehonite Metal Corporation, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, who was a through passenger by the Mariposa. Within two months it is expected that a New Zealand branch of the corporation will begin operations, employing foundries in the manufacture of specially-processed high-test steel, specified for general engineering and munitions by the British and Australian defence authorities.

New Zealand Doctors Overseas. News of doctors from New Zealand who are practising and studying overseas was brought to Auckland by Dr A. J. Cunningham, Sydney, who was a through passenger by the Mariposa from San Francisco. He said he had made contact with Dr J. Maxwell Clarke, chief of the surgical division of the Auckland Hospital, who was temporarily associated with the Cancer Memorial Clinic in New York. Dr Cunningham added that he also met Dr Charles Reed and Dr Macindoe, two young New Zealand surgeons who had successful practices in Harley Street, London.

The “Railways Magazine.” Packed with bright and interesting reading matter and photographs, the August issue of the “New Zealand Railways” Magazine” is well up to standard. A regular contributor to the Magazine, O. N. Gillespie, this month discusses New Zealand’s achievements in painting and music. James Cowan writes another stirring story of New Zealand in the early days. Of interest to the mechanically-minded is a description of the new electric passenger coaches being used on the WellingtonJohnsonville line. In addition to many other special articles, there are the usual entertaining sections for women and children, book reviews, etc.

Mr Savage and Mr Forbes. Compliments to a former Prime Minister, the Rt Hon G. W. Forbes, whose electorate he visited on Wednesday, were paid by the Rt Hon M. J. Savage. Speaking at Rangiora after an apology for absence was read from the member for Hurunui, Mr Savage said that since he had been in the House he had always looked upon Mr Forbes as a friend. They had disagreed, of course, but Mr Forbes had - always disagreed in a very manly, fashion. For that reason they had built up a friendship that was not likely to be broken down by an election campaign. Mr Forbes showed manliness on the occasion of the last election, and “took his lickings in politics as he took his lickings on the football field —like a man,” Mr Savage said at Oxford. Chief Judge of Samoa. The announcement that Mr W. C. Harley, of Nelson, whose appointment as a magistrate was gazetted this week, is to be chief judge for Western Samoa, was made last night by the At-torney-General, the Hon H. G. R. Mason. It is expected that Mr Harley will sail for Samoa by the Matua on August 24. The Attorney-General explained that Mr Harley’s appointment was occasioned by the necessity for relieving the present Chief Judge, Mr Morling, on account of ill-health in his family. It is anticipated that Mr Morling would take up magisterial duties on his return to New Zealand. A gathering to bid farewell to Mr Harley was held in Nelson yesterday. Reference was made to Mr Harley’s scholastic and athletic career at Nelson College and Canterbury College, to his war service as a member of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (he is now a lieutenant-colonel in the reserve of officers), and to his service on local bodies and other organisations. New Zealand Materials. A Cabinet instruction has been given that architects in private practice must stipulate the use of New Zealand products or materials when preparing plans and specifications for Government buildings, provided that these materials are suitable and that they can be purchased on a comparable price basis . This was announced yesterday by the Minister of Industries and Commerce, the Hon D. G. Sullivan. “The Government architect and his officers, acting in accordance with the Government’s policy, have always stipulated the use of New Zealand products or materials in Government buildings when they could be purchased on a comparable price basis which takes into acount the measure of preference extended toward New Zealandmade goods,” said the Minister. “This has not always been the case when plans and specifications for Government buildings have been prepared by architects in private practice,- but as a result of Cabinet’s decision this procedure will be followed from now on.”

Offending Motorists. Three men appeared before Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court at Auckland yesterday, charged with intoxication in charge of motor cars. Ivan Malcolm Thomas, aged 18. seaman, had already been in prison awaiting sentence, and in view of his youth he was admitted to probation for a year and prohibited from owning, leasing or driving a motor car during that term. In the other two cases, counsel appealed to the magistrate not to send accused to prison. He declined, remarking: “There are three cases before me today, and it is obvious that drivers have not realised the seriousness of this offence. It must be brought home to them.” Thomas Greenhalgh, aged 37, engineer, whose car collided with a power pole at lo’clock yesterday morning, when he was returning from a ball, was sentenced to imprisonment for two weeks. Robert Russell Girven, aged 39, waterside worker, was sentenced to a similar term. The police said that his car was seen to swerve, and he was pursued by a traffic officer on Wednesday evening.