LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

"Early Wairarapa.” It should have been stated that much of the matter embodied in a contributed article on "Early Wairarapa,” which appeared in the “Times-Age” yesterday, was obtained from “Early Wairarapa,” by H. A. Herron, M.A., which was adapted and published, in 1929, by Messrs A. Clemas and J. H. Fieldhouse. The omission to make the acknowledgment that was due is very much regretted. Earthquake in Hawke's Bay. A short, sharp earthquake was felt yesterday morning about 10.28 o’clock at Waipukurau, Hastings, and Dannevirke. Magistrates’ Courts. New provisions affecting the procedure in magistrates’ courts are included in the Statutes Amendment Bill which was introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday. In an action for debt it is provided that the assignment for debt is not to be deemed a material part of the cause of action. There is also a technical provision covering appeals concerning assignment of debt. Another clause states that the giving of notice of appeal is not to operate as a stay of execution or of proceedings, unless the court so orders, and the amount of judgment appealed against, together with costs, is deposited with the clerk of the court to await the event of the appeal. Commercial Radio. The agitation by Palmerston North citizens for a radio broadcasting station in the city has been successful, and according to advice received by Mr J. Hodgens, M.P., Cabinet has approved the establishment of a commercial station. Representations were made to the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon M. J. Savage, when he was in Palmerston North for the winter show, and he promised that the city would receive consideration. It is understood that the station will operate in evenings only, from 6 o’clock to 10 o’clock, and will give a seven-day service. . Equipment will probably be similar to that used in one of the Auckland stations. No definite information has yet been received about the location of the transmitter and studio. Safety in a Gaol. “I was sister-in-charge of the mental hospital at the time of the Japanese air raid on Shanghai, and we were evacuated to the gaol, which was considered to be safer,” said Miss Edith Parkerson, of Christchurch, who has returned recently from Shanghai, where she has been nursing for three years. “We were there five days because that area unexpectedly became the centre of hostilities, and a Japanese military convoy was sent to take I us to a safer place in the International Settlement. We kept the mental hospital going for a month, until the staff was absorbed into the other hospitals to deal with the cholera epidemic. Our hospitals were in territory occupied by the Japanese, and we had to leave at six hours’ notice and set up again in a school in an unoccupied area.” Pioneers Die on Same Day. Two pioneers of the Waikato, who came from England in the same ship, died within a few hours of each other recently. They were Mr Walter Chitty, of Hamilton, and Mrs Ellen Rosa Holloway, of Kawakawa. They met on the sailing ship Bulwark, which had an adventurous voyage to New Zealand in 1872. During a severe storm the ship was dismasted, and was delayed at Mauritius for two months while she was refitted. The journey from England to New Zealand occupied over seven months. The friendship formed on the Bulwark was continued throughout their lives, and, although Mrs Holloway lived away from the Waikato in her later years, she and Mr Chitty kept in touch with each other by correspondence. Joke Just Misses.

Whilst listening to community singing from station 4YA, Dunedin, at about midday on a recent Friday a party of Kaponga football enthusiasts heard an announcement that the Taranaki touring footballers were present. Prompted to perpetrate a mild joke upon the Kaponga members of the team, H. Benton, J. Coull and R. Walker, they sent an urgent telegram requesting that the Kaponga members of the Taranaki football team be asked to sing a trio or pay a fine of three shillings. The message was lodged at Kaponga at 12.50 p.m., and at 1.10 p.m. the song leader at Dunedin announced that the footballers had left the hall some five minutes before and suggested tkjat the fine be paid by the senders of the telegram. A Real Fog. People who complain of winter fogs in Christchurch would have every reason for complaint if they lived in Manchester, according to Dr E. R. Cooper, who described conditions in England to members of the Cathedral Grammar School Old Boys’ Association. The blackness of buildings in Manchester depressed New Zealanders after the cleanliness of their own cities, but if they lived there a while they would know why everything looked so dirty, he said. The fogs which were prevalent for most of the year in Manchester were the explanation, for they carried soot from thousands of chimneys. The fringe of these fogs was white, but in the heart of them it was black as midnight, and even in daytime shops and cars had to light up. Anyone walking in one of these fogs for a time came out with his face thoroughly grimy. Power Line Fault. Trams, electric trains, lifts, and all services relying upon direct electric current were halted in Wellington yesterday for several minutes shortly after half-past one, and again a few minutes later. As happened a week i or two ago, a fault far away up the , line, in the Urewera country, temporarily cut off the electric power supply ' in Wellington. The source of yesterday’s trouble was the blow-out of a 1 110,000-volt brush at the Tuai elec- • trie power station, Waikaremoana. The i blow-out caused a surge of power t throughout the interlinked systems of > the North Island, and in Wellington I it had the effect of cutting out the i rotary condensers and shutting off t direct power. In the Wairarapa there t were two very brief interruptions of s power early yesterday afternoon, but < they were of such slight duration as s to cause little trouble. f \ r According to a writer on nursery topics a baby enables its parents to sec t things they never saw before. The a dawn, for instance. n