LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 November 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

College Cadets and Pipe Band. Headed by the Wairarapa College Pipe Band, the College Cadet Battalion, about 300 strong, will march through Queen Street on Monday afternoon at 3.30 o’clock. £6O Dropped in Street. When walking along one of the main streets of Taumarunui recently a wellknown business man dropped a large roll of more than £6O in notes and cheques. A few minutes after the incident a young man handed the money into the police station. The police had no difficulty in locating the owner, who presented the finder with a generous reward. A Broad Highway. Remarking that highways in Europe reach great heights, so that the mountain peaks are comparatively little higher, Dr W. H. Simpson, who recently toured Europe by motor-car, said during an address at Wellington College yesterday that the famous Brenner Pass between Italy and Austria, which one pictured as a mountain road, was a bitumen highway wide enough for six cars. Christmas Cheer Collection. About £340, compared with £295 last year, was collected by the Wellington Commercial Travellers* Association in its annual street day appeal yesterday. The money collected will be used for the provision of Christmas cheer for children in homes and orphanages and for the Commercial Travellers’ Blind Soldiers’ Fund. Since this effort was inaugurated £11,501 has been distributed. Theatres and Churches. “Against your hard-benched, draughty, comfortless churches are set in contrast the luxurious picture theatres, warm in winter, cool in summer, comfortably upholstered and made attractive by the world’s best drama, music and song,” said the Rev Clarence Eaton (chairman) in his 'adress to the North Canterbury District Methodist Synod. Mr Eaton was drawing attention to possibilities in chtirch work offered by the motion picture industry. Twenty-eight Pound Eel. The Manse crossing of the Temuka river was the scene of a great struggle on Sunday when a 281 b eel was landed by Mr Robert Watson, of Temuka. The eel, which has been placed in a cooler, is five feet long, and is the second eel of such dimensions that Mr Watson has caught recently in the Temuka river. It' is thought that the eel had been doing great damage among the young trout with which the South Canterbury Acclimatisation Society is stocking the rivers. College Old Boys Blazer. Sports organizations often have difficulty in reserving for- their members the exclusive right to wear the organization’s blazer. Among them is the Wellington College Old Boys’ Association, which, finding its blazer worn by many who have had no connection with the college, has changed the design of its blazer. An attempt to protect the coat of black, gold and white stripes by registering it failed. The new blazer is black with a gold badge on the pocket and gilt buttons bearing the college crest. The buttons, which are the distinctive part of the garment ,are to be produced only from the association. Memorial to Horticulturist. A' suggestion that the name of Mr J. A. Campbell, former head of the Horticultural Division of the Department of Agriculture, should be linked in some way with the new School of Horticulture, which it is proposed should be established in Christchurch, was made at a meeting of the Christchurch Domains Board. It was stated that the school, for the establishment of which Mr Campbell had worked so hard, would itself serve as a memorial to him, and for that reason his name should be incorporated in its title. Efforts to secure a Campbell memorial on a Dom-inion-wide scale are being made by the Institute of Horticulture. New Aeroplanes Landed. A type of aeroplane new to the Dominion has been imported by the Te Kuiti Aero Club. The machine, a Rearwin Sportster, is of American manufacture, and was stated by Mr Morton to be an excellent training craft. It was tested by Mr Morton a Auckland and proved entirely satisfactory, he said, being very easy to handle and particularly steady. Although he does not yet know the exact cost, he said the machine was very cheap. Another machine of the same type has also been delivered in New Zealand, and is now awaiting tests. It is on order bv the Western Federated Flying Club.

Wrong in Principle. “The riding system is wrong in principle, and should be abolished,” said the Minister of Public Works, Mr Semple, in the course of a reply to a deputation of Puketapu settlers, which waited on him in Napier to request assistance in rebuilding the Dartmoor bridge, which was destroyed in the flood of last April. Mr Semple said the riding system was unfair on the poorer districts in a county, and he was pleased to know that some counties of New Zealand had abolished it. The riding system was all right for those who owned the richer lands, but he thought one should help the other. Mr T. E. Cross, who headed the deputation: The poorer country pays the highest rates and has the worst roads. The resources of the county ought to be pooled, said Mr Semple. The load was heaped on people who could not affod to pay. The Red Star Football Club will hold a social and dance in the Savage Club rooms tonight, at which the trophies won during the past season will be presented.