LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 October 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Frost in Masterton. A frost of 6.7 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Chinese Relief Fund. The Mayor (Mr T. Jordan) desires to acknowledge the following donations to the Chinese Children Relief Fund:— Pupils of Wairarapa College, £4 4s 8d; proceeds of cardigan,, knitted by Mrs W. H. Harcombe, £3 Bs. Right Hand Rule. “Some day I suppose we will have a rule making it obligatory to stop before coming out of a side road on to a main road,” said Mr C. R. Orr Walker, S.M., when a motorist appeared in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, charged with a breach of the right-hand rule. "They have it in America,” he added, “and in certain parts of Europe. Still the right-hand rule here has to be maintained as long as it is law.” Trust Lands Trust. The monthly meeting of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust was held last night, the chairman, Mr H. P. Hugo, presiding over the following trustees: —Messrs J. Macfarlane Laing, E. G. Eton, A. O. Jones, C. E. Grey, H. H. Daniell and R. Krahagen. Credit balances of £443 4s lid, £242 11s 9d, £39 Os 3d, were shown as Nos 1,2 and 3 accounts respectively. Accounts amounting to £154 17s 7d were passed for payment. Demand for Houses. The demand for houses still is far short of the number available for letting purposes in Auckland, and. according to Mr J. A. Lee, Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Housing, during a speech at Remuera, for every vacant house at Orakei there would be something like 500 applicants. Inquiries at land agencies for houses invariably meet with the same response, “I am sorry, but there is none at present.” Check on Dual Voting. The political parties in this General Election are leaving nothing to chance. One party this week began a scrutiny of tne 14 Canterbury and West Coast electoral rolls • in order to guard against the possibility of dual voting and personation. Note will be made of any apparent duplication of enrolment so that investigation of the bona tides of the voter or voters may be made in the event of a close poll in any of the electorates concerned. The checking of the rolls is an arduous task for 14 men. A Community Asset. Several comments on the useful place the Opera House is taking in the community life of the Masterton people were made at last night’s meeting of the Trust Lands Trust. It was pointed out that a number of societies had been revived and strengthened since the Opera House was reconstructed. Some discussion took place on the advisability of keeping a telephone in the building, and it was decided to ask the secretary to look into the matter and. report at the next meeting. An Unusual Accident. Frederick Robert Wallace, painter, of Petone, had his right leg broken in an unusual accident yesterday. Mr Wallace, who is employed by the Petone Borough Council, was scraping the fence of the Recreation Ground at the north end of Buick Street preparatory to painting. A motorist was moving a car to allow Mr Wallace to get at part of the fence when the latter was caught between the vehicle and the fence, his right leg being broken as a result. Growth of Rotary. The growth of the Rotary organisation since 1915 was mentioned by Mr J. R. McKenzie, delegate of the Christchurch Rotary Club to the recent international conference at San Francisco, in an address to the club. Mr McKenzie said that one of the speakers at the conference had said that mere were 186 Rotary Clubs in 1915, and now there were 4700. In 1915 there were. 20,700 Rotarians, and today they numbered 199,000. The conference in 1915 was attended by 1888 delegates, and the one in 1938 had been attended by 10,000 persons from various parts of the world. Schoolboys’ Tour in 1940, A possible visit to the Dominion by a party of Canadian schoolboys in 1940 is mentioned in a letter from the secretary of the Canadian National Council of Education (Major F. Ney) which has been received by the rector of the Waitaki Boys’ High School (MiFrank Milner). The rector’s monthly report presented at the meeting of the Board of Governors said that the letter commended the results of the tour recently made to Canada by Waitaki schoolboys, which, he said, created a very favourable impression. It was hoped to reciprocate with the dispatch of a Canadian party in New’ Zealand's centennial year. U.K. Taxation on Visitors. » In consequence of a legal decision there has been a complete change in the basis of liability tp English income tax in the case of visitors to the United Kingdom. It is fairly well known, an oversea correspondent states, that a visit of more than 182 days in a financial year involves liability and in order to avoid this liability it has become the practice for funds to be remitted for living expenses in the year prior to that in which the visit is made. The decision referred to above completely alters the position and readers making arrangements for long leave in England or for return there on retirement are advised most strongly to obtain reliable advice as to the present tax position. The old methods of minimising liability, the correspondent states, are not only useless in most cases but may now have the opposite effect to that intended.

Danger Theory Exploded. When' Mr H. F. W. Meikle, Mayor of Devonport, visited the naval base to complain aDout the practice of carrying high explosives through the borough, he was told that there was no dangertwo men were always placed on top of the load with fire extinguishers. This fact Mr Meikle revealed to the borough council, when a letter was received from the authorities, notifying that all explosives were now stored further up the harbour at Kauri Point, and that supplies would no longer be kept in the armament store in Vauxhall Road. Members expressed gratification at the news. "High explosives should never have been carried through a thickly-populated area like Devonport,” commented Mr E. Aldridge.

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