LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 November 1938, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Headteachers’ Association. In order to give an avenue of approach with outside activities, a Masterton Headteachers’ Association has been formed, the first body of its kind in the Wairarapa. Mr E. G. Coddington has been elected president, and Mr J. W. T. Jones hon. secretary.

Accident at Castlepoint, i Mr Andrew Esler, of 75 Church Street, is in the Masterton Hospital with a fractured leg, received when he fell down a bank at Castlepoint yesterday. Mr Esler, who is 33 years of age, was spending a holiday at the beach. He was conveyed to the Masterton Hospital by ambulance.

Cycling Events at Masterton. Two cycling events (J mile and 11 miles) will be decided at the athletic meeting at Masterton tomorrow evening. The following will be handicapped on the ground: —K. Woollett, R. Copp, C. Osborne, R. Deane, J. Brader, J. McAliece, C. Dykes, M. Graham, L. Green, R. Killington, J. Duckett and C. Gourlay.

"A Mystery Car.” An old model car, well smashed, with its wheels in the air, is lying down a bank, near the school, on the Ponatahi Hill. It has been there for several days, and no one appears to know anything about it or how it came to be in its present position. It. is stated, however, that two men were seen strolling casually away from the car, but they might have been merely inspecting it.

Archbishop Julius Fund. The fund for providing a memorial to Archbishop Julius now amounts to £3281. This represents about oneeighth of the total sought to establish a fitting memorial to one of New Zealand’s greatest churchmen. The aim of the committee organizing the appeal is to raise £25,000, which it is proposed will be spent in extending the chancel of the Christchurch Cathedral, this being a work in which the archbishop was keenly interested. After Nineteen Years. A voluntary undertaking to pay 19 years’ arrears of subscriptions to the Auckland Returned Soldiers’ Association was made by a former soldier living on the Great Barrier Island in a letter read to the quarterly meeting of the association last week. The writer stated that he had allowed his membership to lapse after 1919, but lately, while seeing some patients in the casualty ward of the Auckland Hospital, he had seen the association’s visiting committee at work, and had decided to pay his arrears, amounting to between £4 and £5, in instalments, the first of which he enclosed.

Street Names at Auckland. No immediate action is to be taken by the Auckland City Council to change the'names of a large number of city streets, as recently proposed. The movement was started as a means of removing the difficulty experienced by the Post Office, caused by the widespread duplication of street names throughout the metropolitan area. There has been so much opposition to many of the new names suggested that the council, at a special meeting recently, decided to defer action, and a special sub-committee was appointed to prepare a new list, choosing names that have' some relation to the area and are likely to have the approval of the residents.

The Dairying Season . “As far as the season has advanced, some exceptionally fine individual monthly herd averages have been recorded,” Mr A. H. Humphrey, secretary of the Wairarapa Herd-Testing Association .stated yesterday. “Where the care of pasture and the breeding and building up of the herd have been attended to, the high yield of butter-fat returns per cow and butter-fat •produced per acre is most noticeable. A big percentage of heifers under test are producing remarkably well. For some years now the breeding of better heifers has been aimed at and attained by many of our members. These are the future herd.” Sheep-Worrying Losses.

Serious losses caused by „ sheepworrying dogs in Hawke’s Bay were again stressed by members of the Hawke’s Bay County Council at yesterday’s meeting, when a letter enclosing a- series of photographs taken on his farm was received from Mr R. G. Montgomery, Wharerangi. Mr Montgomery asked the council to consider taking steps to minimis? the menace to the sheep industry by stray dogs, and said that so far this year he had shot 12 stray dogs on his property, mostly of the sporting type. Last year he had shot 26 stray dogs. It was decided by lhe council, that the inspector be empowered to shoot unregistered stray dogs, was carried unanimously. Backblock Roads.

“It is unnecessary expense constructing all these deviations on the main highways, when backblock roads are being neglected because lhe county councils cannot get any money." said Mr H. W. Wilson at a. recent meeting oi the Raglan County Council. Other members of the council also claimed that the Government was expending huge sums on improving main highways, while backblock farmers were unable to get adequate access because county councils were not granted money for road work. Much of the work on the main roads, said Mr Wilson, was absolutely unnecessary. He expressed the opinion that counties should be considered before roads which were good for at least 20 years. Band Contest. The music for the A and B grade band contests, to take place in Christchurch from February 6 to 25, has been distributed to competing bands. The test pieces selected are as follows: —A grade. No 1, “Robin Hood” (Geehl); No. 2, “The Valkyrie” (Wagner), arranged by George Hawkins. B grade, No. 1, “The Flying Dutchman” fantasia (Wagner); No 2, tone poem, “Labour anl Love” (Percy Fletcher). Bandsmen throughout New Zealand will learn with interest that Mr H. R. Shugg, Melbourne, has been appointed adjudicator of the 1939 contests, in Christchurch. Mr Shugg, who adjudicated in Wellington in 1922, has had experience both as a bandmaster and judge in all parts of the world.

A motor journal advises novices to stop a car at once if they hear a strange knocking noise. And to wait until the passenger has his knees under control again?

“A fine hunting dog, that—remarkably intelligent!” “Yes, I’ve noticed he gets behind a tree whenever you shoot.”