LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 January 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Firewood Plentiful. Country districts will not lack for firewood for the next few months. On every roadside in Hawke’s Bay split and smashed willow and other trees will require cleaning up and the loss of shelter will provide home warmth during the winter months.

international Croquet Contests. The Dominion Croquet Council, at its annual meeting, received a letter from the English Croquet Association accepting New Zealand’s challenge to a match in New Zealand in January or February, 1940. Matches between the above countries and Australia are being arranged.

Cheap Fruit. An abundance of cheap fruit, mostly suitable for jam making, is being offered to Napier and Hastings housewives as a result of the heavy gales of the past few days. Fruitgrowers in many parts of the district are in the unfortunate position of having to take what they can get for fruit stripped from trees by the wind, and a plethora of these windfalls has brought the price very low.

Drunk and Disorderly. Pleading guilty to a charge of having been drunk and disorderly in a public place, Rewi Tamihana was convicted and fined £1 when he appeared before Mr W. G. Lamb, J.P., in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning. Senior-Sergeant G. A. Doggett said that when defendant was arrested by Constable Diggle in Queen Street last night he was under the influence of liquor and was in a quarrelsome and argumentative mood.

Programme by Band. A programme, selected from the following items will be rendered in the Park by the Municipal Band this evening commencing at 7.45 o’clock: Overture, “Fedora” (Rayner); march, ’’B.B. and C.F.” (Ord Hume); march, “Brigadier” (Bulch); march, “Knight of the Road” (Greenwood); march, “M.M.8.” (Trussell); waltz, “Donauwellen” (Ivanovici); march, “Middy” (Alford); fox trot, “Ten Pretty Girls” (Grosz); fox trot, “Can I Forget You” (Kern); selection, “Mikado” (Sullivan).

Waipoua River Deviation. Excellent progress is being made with the Waipoua River deviation work, which forms the major part of the Masterton Borough Council’s flood protection scheme. Twelve teams are at present engaged and an artificial river-bed is being constructed through the horse paddock adjacent to , the Park. Already water from the river is seeping through and is assisting in deepening the channel. The concrete piers of the new swing bridge have been erected, but the decking still remains to be done.

Revival of Horsebreeding. There is every probability of the Government-subsidized scheme, sponsored by the New Zealand racing authorities, for the breeding of horses meeting with the success anticipated. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, a keen advocate of the scheme, told a racing club deputation at Wellington yesterday that the owners of sires and mares in several parts of both islands had taken up the project with a pleasing enthusiasm which augured well/for the revival of horse breeding in the Dominion. “I am informed,” Mr Parry added, “that by the end of the present year New Zealand will have many more foals in the paddocks than have been 'seen for the past several years. Let us hope we will be able to say in the near future that the horse has not entirely been displaced by the machine.”