LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Summer Time. Summer time will commence at 2 a.m. on Sunday next, when residents should advance their clocks half an hour. Mawley Park. Eight motorists availed themselves of the facilities at Mawley Park motor camp during August. Fees collected during the month amounted to £1 Is. Municipal Band. The Masterton Municipal Band held ten practices during August. Two concerts arranged to be held in the Park had to be postponed on account of unfavourable weather. Killings at Abattoir. The following stock was slaughtered at the Municipal Abattoir during August: Cattle, 549; calves, 162; sheep, 1813; lambs, 132; pigs. 108. The killing fees are £8 12s lid less than those for August of last year. To date fees are £149 19s 2d lower than those for the corresponding period of last year. Municipal Library. The following are the figures for the Municipal Library for August:—Books issued, fiction, 3394; non-fiction, 388. Books added: Fiction, 99; non-fiction, 19; subscribers at end of July, 404; new subscribers. 8; subscribers left during August, 3; total subscribers at end of August, 409. The amount spent in books from April 1 to July 31 was: Librarian, £ll9 17s lOd; committee £43 15s 6d. The amount to be spent in books for the month of August was, Librarian £22 6s 3d. Money Turned Away. The Scottish community of Waipukurau were compelled, against the traditional Caledonian habits of thrift, to turn away money when they held their first Ingleside on Saturday night. Although two halls were engaged for the gathering, arranged by the Waipukurau branch of the Hawke’s Bay Centre of the Piping and Dancing Association, these proved quite inadequate to accommodate the crowd, which came from all parts of Central Hawke’s Bay. A concert was followed by a dance. Station Trucking Yards. The trucking yards at the Masterton Railway Station came in for some passing mention at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, reported that Departmental engineers had inspected the yards in company with representatives of the stock firms. “To my astonishment and delight,” he said, “all the auctioneers agreed that the yards should be shifted to Solway and were unanimous • that no money should be spent on the existing yards.” Pedestrian Crossings. At the August meeting of the Masterton Borough Council a proposal by Councillor R. Russell that a system of pedestrian crossings be instituted in Queen Street was defeated by 9 votes to three. At last night’s meeting he moved that a pedestrian crossing and a sign, school, be painted on the street in front of the Central School for the use of the children. The motion was defeated by six votes to five. Councillor Russell said he had been asked to bring the matter up by a member of the Central School Parents’ Association. Snooker and Billiards. The Y.M.C.A. Club met St Patrick’s Club last night in the usual competitions, the scores being as follows, St Patrick’s Club members being mentioned first in each case:—Billiards: J. Curry beat A. Bate; H. Keen beat P. Watson; M. Remine won by default; J. W. Curtin beat S. Onion; L. Rees beat W. Reynolds. Snooker:—J. Curry beat A. Bate; H. Keen lost to P. Watson; M. Remine won by default; J. W. Curtin beat S. Onion; L. Rees beat W. Reynolds. St Patrick’s won by 9 games to one. The following is the draw for the next matches:—Thursday: Post Office v Pioneers. Tuesday: Y.M.C.A. A v Y.M.C.A.- B. Cows Electrocuted. Leaving his house to milk at about five o’clock on Sunday morning, a South Auckland dairy-farmer was greeted by the sight of 11 of his cows lying dead in the paddock. They had been electrocuted. Another cow had been affected, but was still alive. In a storm the previous night one of a line of four poles carrying the electric power wires from the road into the milking shed had broken off at ground level and fallen into the paddock, bringing the wires down with it. The herd comprised 50 cows, and had been put in the paddock for the night. Included among those killed was one pedigree Jersey cow. The farmer’s loss was about £l5O. Church in Danger. “The Church appears to be slipping altogether in New Zealand, to be slipping over the precipice into oblivion,” said the Bishop of Wellington, the Rt Rev H. St Barbe Holland, in his presidential address to the Dominion conference of the Church of England Men’s Society, which opened in Wellington yesterday. The bishop’s remarks were made in conjunction with an appeal to members of the society to rouse the Church against the danger that threatened it. “The Church is being challenged today more than ever before, and it is in reality ‘Christ or paganism,’ ” he said. “The Church is not advancing at the present moment and seems like a church that is going to die. I hope that your deliberations will result in a strong and definite advance in your capacity to rouse the Church to the dangers that face it. Unless the Church can make a move forward one is afraid for the future of this Dominion—not only the Church, but also the nation.