LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1938, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Mawley Park. Five motorists availed themselves of the facilities at Mawley Park motor camp during November. Fees collected amounted to 14s 9d.

Municipal Band. The Masterton Municipal Band held seven practices during November. A. programme was rendered in the Park on Sunday, November 6. Items were rendered at the Church of Epiphany Garden Party on Saturday. November New Town Clerk. The Masterton Borough Council decided at its meeting last night that the four chairmen of committees consider the applications for the position of Town Clerk and. after reducing the number to 5 or 6, report back to the council at a meeting on December 22.

Killings at Abattoir. The following stock was slaughtered tit lhe Municipal Abattoir during November: Cattle, 450; calves, 147; sheep, 1714; lambs. 261: pigs. 189. Killing fees were £32 Is 4d in excess of those for the ■'•orresponding month cf last year. To date, fees are £47 10s lOd lower than those for the corresponding period of last year.

Physical Welfare. The Masterton Borough Council, at :ts meeting last night, agreed to a suggestion that there should only be one committee, under the National Recreation and Physical Welfare Act, for the borough and for the Masterton, Mauriceville and Castlepcint County Councils. . The Mayor Mr T. Jordan, was appointed to represent the council on the committee.

“Cockiest Little Town.” Waimate was referred to as “the ■cockiest’ little town in the Dominion” by Mr T. D. Burnett, M.P., in his address at a social given in honour of the new member for Waitaki, Mr D. C.-Kidd, at Waimate. Waimate, he said, was putting into operation an isolationist policy that was putting Timaru in the background in South Canterbury.

Cheese Vat as Swimming Bath. An old cheese vat was successfully used by a country school teacher to teach some of his pupils to swim, according to Mr P. F. Coira, chairman of the National Committee of Swimming, and Life Saving, speaking to a gatnering of Oamaru swimmers. “The teacher got good results too,” he said. “I don’t know how he would have got on with a brewery vat —he probably would have taught some of the older people.”

Hollywood Minds. Across Colombo Street, Christchurch, at the Armagh Street intersection, there was stretched a big banner bearing the slogan: “Stop, Look and Live.” It was designed to inculcate caution in pedestrians, motorists, cyclists and pram pushers, but the two Hollywoodminded flappers who were waiting for a Papanui tram did not take it that way at all. “Oh, look,” said the peroxide blonde one. “ ‘Stop, Look and Love.’ I wonder where that’s on? It orta be good.”

Centenary Appeal. A total of £2215 Is lOd has been given for The Wellington diocesan centenary appeal, since the end of November. The fund now stands at £43,268 12s Bd. The Wellington citizens’ fund, since the end of November, has increased from £19,165 to £19,719 17s. The Masterton total is £3438 13s, Eketahuna £924 ss, Carterton £832 12s, Grey town £347 14s 6d, Martinborough £250 8s 6d, Pongaroa £lO4B 0s Gd, Featherston £2796 17s 6d, Pahiatua £75.

Big Game Fish Expedition. An expedition, composed of members of the staff of the American Museum of National History, New York, will arrive in New Zealand next month to secure specimens of the Dominion’s big-game fish. Still and moving pictures of the same subjects will ba taken. The Minister in Charge of the Tourist and Publicity Department, Mr Langstone, has instructed his department to get in touch with other Government departments concerned so that the expedition may be assisted in every possible way.

Ice Cream Consumption.

At last night’s meeting of the Maslerton Borough Council, the Inspector, Mr T. A. Russell, reported: “The licensing of ice cream premises has been completed, 29 licenses having been issued to date. Approximately 9000 gallons of ice cream v-as consumed in Master ton last year. Ice cream is really a very excellent food containing. at least 10 per cent of butterfat and all the other valuable constituents of milk and in those districts where it has not been possible to introduce milk into schools its introduction as a substitute for milk is well worthy of consideration.”

Goodwill Visit.

On a goodwill visit, a party of Otago High School boys is to be at Wellington College during the second weekend of next June. In a letter read at yesterday’s meeting of ’he Wellington Colleges Board, the headmaster of Wellington College, Mr W. A. Armour, stated that he hoped to arrange for a party from Wellington College to visit one of the larger schools in the North Island with which lhe college did not come into regular contact. Such visits, said Mr Armour, should be of great social and educational value, and so he hoped the scheme of goodwill visits would develop to considerable dimensions.

Church Army Work. A novel method of giving a report on the activities of the New Zealand Church Army by showing a film was adopted by the field secretary (Captain S. R. Banyard) at a meeting of rhe Church Army executive in Auckland. The film, part of which was in colour, revealed the work being done by wholetime evangelists in Public Works Department railway camps, lhe military training school, parishes, and among Maoris. Features of the film were the newly-built church at one of the railway camps and a scene of the Waiapu van in an afforestatkv camp. Captain Banyard also reported that four religious films would be ready in February for showing in churches and halls. The whole of the Church of England evensong could be shown on the screen, by the use of lantern slides, and the film used in place of a sermon. A forward move was the erection of cubicles in a large dormitory at headquarters for the use of the men students.