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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 January 1939, Page 7

Six Devonshire milkmaids are leaving for Hollywood. To appear in cowgirl films, we take it? ’ / Would girls rather have pockets or handbags’? asks a writer. Not many girls would pick pockets. Ottawa. —Imports of raw rubber into Canada in the month of October amounted to 7,031.956 pounds, of which the Straits Settlements supplied 6,116.509 pounds and Ceylon 325,770 pounds. Smaller quantities were imported through the United States and the United Kingdom.

Extensive burns were suffered by Mr Clifford William Hampton, a road labourer .aged 34, married, of Remuera. when a benzine stove exploded in a camp near Maramarua, Hauraki Plains, on Tuesday evening. The accident occurred in a tent, which immediately caught fire, forcing the injured man and a companion to scramble for safety through the back. Mr Hampton was preparing tea at the time. Dressed only in a pair of shorts, he was sprayed with benzine over the chest, arms and legs, his face being untouched. His companion escaped injury. The tent caught alight immediately after the explosion, and it was impossible for the men to escape through the doorway. With the flames quickly spreading, they had to force their way under the canvas at the rear. All their possessions in the tent were destroyed.