LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 November 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Health of Masterton. Mr T. A. Russell, Health Inspector, informed a “Times Age” representative today that the Masterton borough had been free of infectious diseases for some considerable time. There had not been a positive case of diphtheria since August 11 last. Jumble Sale.

The Masterton branch of the League of Nations Union held a successful jumble stall yesterday in the .“Daily Times” building, Church Street. It was the last sale of the year. The branch wishes to thank the proprietors for the use of the building for the occasion. Te Wharau Rainfall.

Mr S. Gray reports that in October 120 points of rain were registered at Te Wharau, as compared with 285 points in the corresponding month last year. In the ten months of this year 55.21 inches of rain were recorded as against 42.16 inches for the same period last year. October, 1938, was the driest October at Te Wharau during the past ten years. University Election.

Details of the voting in the recent postal ballot to elect five members to represent the Court of Convocation on the Senate of the University of New Zealand are as follows: —Elected candidates: F. A. de la Mare, 1992; G. W. von Zedlitz, 1853; W. Newlands, 1708; G. H. Benson, 1685; A. E. Flower, 1663. Unsuccessful candidates were: F .H. Campbell, 1597; T. U. Weis, 1577; N. M. Gibson, 1285.

Tramways Dispute. The Wellington tramways dispute was advanced a further stage yesterday when a deputation from the Wellington Trades Council and members of the Tramways’ Union executive waited on the tramways committee of the city council. The discussions were taken in committee, but will be the subject of a report by the committee to a meeting of the city council the week after next. Names for Traffic Signs.

“I hope we are not having a new traffic term introduced,” remarked Mr Justice Callan during the hearing of a case in the Supreme Court at Auckland when counsel referred to a pedestian crossing as a “safety zone.” His Honour said domes had been designated as “silent policemen,” which did not find favour with the police, and also as “poached eggs,” which he himself disliked. “I hope we are to be saved from similar designations,” his Honour added, smiling. M.P. As Show Rider.

Possibly for the first time in the history of agricultural shows in the Waikato, a member of Parliament was a competitor in the jumping competitions at the Royal Show at Claude - lands at the end of last week. The competitor was Mr J. M. Allen, recently elected National Party member for Hauraki, who is a well-known farmer in the Piako district and is'- widely recognised as an enthusiastic horseman. He competed in several of the jumping events. Animals Follow Aeroplane..

Travelers by Air Travel' (N;Z.), Ltd, aeroplanes on the West Coast have been amused to see a pet lamb, a dog, and a tame deer run across the landing field.., at the.Haast to meet incoming machines. The machines land within about 50 yards of the homestead of Mr J. Cron, who owns the animals. The deer was caught by Mr Cron ip the Landsborough Valley when on a deerstalking expedition, and it' was taken from the valley to -fne Haast by aeroplane. ' Praise For United States.

“Far from the ‘almighty dollar’ occupying the thoughts of Americans utterly, I found in America more evidence of genuine philanthropy and of humanitarianism than in any other place I visited,” said Mr E. J. Strachan, principal of the Rangio.ra High School, who has returned after visiting the United States, Great Britain, and Europe. Mr Strachan visited these countries at the invitation of the Carnegie Institute. Educational institutions in America were an inspiration, he said, and were a lesson to the rest of the world. Windfall for Government.

Approximately £200,000 will be the residue of the estate of the late Mrs Marianne Caughey Preston, M.8.E., of Auckland. This money, together with a specified bequest of £20,000, is to be devoted to the establishment of a rest home for aged, infirm and impecunious women, irrespective of their religious beliefs, who have been unexpectedly reduced in their circumstances. With this gift is associated part of a residential property in Ponsonby. An unexpected windfall comes to the Government. It is estimated that the trustees will be called upon to pay death duties of about £150,000. The estate is valued at £450,000. Bequests and legacies amount to about £90,000.

New Zealand and (Sweden.

“It seems that New Zealand is quite well off to be able to allow her people so much leisure time,” said Professor Carl Skottsberg, professor of botany at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, who is visiting Christchurch, during an interview. “You are very fortunate.” he added. “We can’t quite manage the 40-hour week yet. We enjoy a good standard of living, and our wages are high, but not so high as in New Zealand.” He said that Sweden generally was in a good economic condition. Her unemployed had never reached more than 100,000 out of a population of 6,000,000. “I guess we are making some profit out of the. present rearmament,” he said when discussing the iron industry in Sweden. Liquor Issues. At the Baptist Assembly in Wellington temperance matters were discussed as the result of the report of the Temperance Committee. On Dr J. J. North s motion the Assembly resolved: “That the long established right of the people to vote by periodic referendum on liquor issues must at all costs and in adequate forms, be preserved”; further, “That in view of repeated appeals for transfer to existing licenses to other districts, appeals that have been repeatedly reported in the Press, the Assembly demands that no license be moved to another district without a referendum being provided for the expression of the will of the people of that district, as to whether the license shall be established among them or not.”