LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Conference on Nutrition. The British Medical Association Council is calling a national nutrition conference for April, a cablegram reports. It will invite representatives of agriculturists from England and overseas. also industrialists and educationists. Glories of Bath.

The former glories of Bath are to be revived in a great international festival of music, drama and allied arts under the general direction of Mr C. B. Cochran, says a British official wireless message. The festival will open on July 17 and close on August 12. Anniversary Day.

The holiday for Aniversary Day will be observed on Monday. All banks in the Wellington Province will be closed. Sporting attractions in the Wairarapa will include the North Island tennis championships, an athletic meeting in the Park, and a bowling tournament at Masterton and Greytown. Water Shortage. There is reported to be a serious shortage of water at Lansdowne at the present; time, the reservoir being practically empty yesterday. In view of this fact the Masterton Borough Council has decided to rigidly enforce the hosing restrictions. The use of a hose is allowed between the hours of 6 a.m. and 8 p.m. daily only. Struck by a Tram.

After’ attending a special meeting of the Wellington Hospital Board on Thursday night, Mrs S. E. O. Snow, a member of the board, was struck by a tram while walking across Adelaide Road. She was admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured hip. The accident occurred near the main entrance to the hospital. Mrs Snow, who is 75 years of age, has served on the Wellington Hospital Board at different periods since 1919. Otaki Health Camp.

The children at present in residence at the Otaki Health Camp—some 50 girls and 50 boys—will be discharged from the camp next week to return to their homes, after a stay of six weeks in the camp. A further batch will be admitted from Hawke’s Bay, Manawatu, Taranaki, Wairarapa and Wellington, between January 31 and February 4. Though weather conditions during the Christmas and New Year holidays were not ideal at Otaki, the majority of the children benefited considerably by their stay there.

New Factory for Wellington. With the intention of establishing in Wellington a factory for the Lehn and Fink Corporation of Bloomfield, New Jersey, Mi’ R. G. Hoehn, who is in charge of the company’s foreign manufacturing, arrived at Auckland from the United States by the Mariposa. Mr Hoehn has previously visited New Zealand in the interests of his company which manufactures cosmetics and pharmaceutical supplies. “The decision to open a factory in New Zealand has not been prompted by the Government’s recent import control legislation,” Mr Hoehn said. “It is merely part of the company’s policy that has been followed for many years. The factory will not be very large, employing about 40 or 50 people at the outset.”

An American Fisherman. Prominent among big game fishermen who arrived in Auckland from America by the Mariposa, was Mr Richard Sutton, an American writer whose articles on sport in New Zealand have done much to bring it to the attention of anglers in the United States. Mi- Sutton, who is accompanied by his wife, also a keen angler, has made several previous visits to the Dominion. Mr Sutton’s stay will be comparatively short on this occasion. He will fish for 12 days at Tauranga and 12 days at Whangaroa, and will then leave for South Africa. He has been invited by the South African Government to survey the possibilities of the big game fishing grounds off those coasts. He plans to visit New Zealand again next year and stay three months.

The Fruit Industry. “We know now less than ever we did,” said Mr J. H. Milne, president of the Hawke’s Bay Fruit-growers’ Association, when the proposed Government control of the fruit industry was discussed at a meeting of the association in Hastings yesterday. Dissatisfaction with the method by which the referendum of orchardists on the question was taken by the New Zealand Fruit-growers’ Federation was expressed at the meeting and the following resoltion passed: “We deplore the fact that the federation executive did not act in accordance with the resolution passed at the annual conference asking the Government to take over the marketing of fruit.” The opinion was expressed by many growers that there was more in the federation’s action than was apparent on the surface and that, as shareholders of the federation, they should demand that action be taken. Roman Catholic Cathedral. The foundation-stone of a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Wellington will, it is hoped, be laid at the corner of Cambridge Terrace and Buckle Street, in February, 1940. At that time, for the first time in New Zealand history, a Papal Legate will be visiting the Dominion for the Catholic Congress in Wellington, and he will probably lay the stone. For some years it has been proposed that a Catholic cathedral should be erected in Wellington. An excellent site has been acquired on the corner of Cambridge Terrace, all the land from St Patrick’s College to Buckle Street, and from Cambridge Terrace to the Catholic school beyond Sussex Street, being now held by the Church. The last property on the site was acquired recently. Though no announcement has yet been made as to the name of the Papal Legate, it is understood that he will be an English-speaking Cardinal. Champion Mean Man.

A candidate for the world's meanest man championship was in Blenheim during the Christmas holidays, and proved his claim to the title by the manner in which he rewarded a woman for her honesty in returning a large sum of money which he lost on Christmas Eve. On Christmas morning the individual —a visitor to the town — made the startling discovery that he had lost a wallet containing £B5. He made a trip post haste to the Palace Theatre, where he had spent the previous evening, and informed the manager of his loss. The manager took him to the cleaner, who produced the lost money, which she had found under a seat in the auditorium. The man must have been tremendously relieved, but he controlled himself sufficiently to avoid any excessive generosity. He expressed his gratitude by giving her a two-shilling piece.