Donation of Cup.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1939, Page 4

Donation of Cup.

Mr J. H. Cunningham has donated a challenge cup to the Wairarapa Interhouse Association for competition on March 11. Swimming. A party of Masterton swimmers will be paying a return visit to Eketahuna on Thursday night for thp “Keep Fit” sports. Swimmers are advised that private cars will leave the Post Office at 6.30 p.m. College Pipe Band. The Masterton Borough Council decided at its meeting last night to make a donation of £2 2s to the Wairarapa College Pipe Band contest fund. The grant was made in response to a request by the St. Andrew’s Society. Waste of Scrap Tin. Tin scrap previously valued at £7 a ton is being dumped in Auckland for the reason that a licence for export cannot be obtained and nothing can be done with it a Press Association message reports. It is estimated that the loss daily is at least £3O, and it is reported that as a result of the embargo one firm is losing £3OOO a year on its waste products. There is a ready market in Britain, Germany, and Japan for scrap tin, which is treated and rolled into tin sheet. Big Grass Fire. Between 2000 and 3000 acres of hill country with some, flat land also involved was swept by a disastrous grass fire which broke out near the southern entrance to Dashwood Pass, near Seddon, at 9.30 o’clock yesterday morning. By 1.30 p.m. the blaze was under control, after it had been fought for four hours by approximately 150 men. It was "only through the strenuous efforts of the fire-fighters that the homestead of Mr M. H. Costello was saved from destruction. State Forest Fire. Reference to the fire in the State Forest in Balmoral, North Canterbury, was made yesterday by the Commissioner of State Forests, Mr Langstone. He said it was not yet known whether the fire was due to carelessness or vandalism. Whatever the cause, the damage to the greater part of 200 acres was severe. The prevalence of bush and plantation fires was causing the department much anxiety. “Forest loss by fire has been very heavy this season,” said Mr Langstone, “and in most cases the outbreak could have been avoided if people had exercised reasonable care. It is difficult to understand why any intelligent person should light a fire in an area close to native bush or a plantation reserve, and yet it has been done time and time again this summer with enormous loss to the country.” Broadcasting Control. A request by the New Zealand Freedom Association for broadcasting facilities to deliver a series of addresses surveying actions of the Government, which, it is claimed, have successively weakened and even undermined the ' authority of the courts of justice has . been refused by the director of the National Broadcasting Service. Profes- ' sor J. Shelley, an Auckland message j states. The organiser of the association, , Professor R. M. Algie, said that this ■ decision meant that the Labour Government had established and intended to assert a complete dictatorship over ' the air. The association’s request was made, he added, following the Government’s decision to the effect that the . Bureau of Importers was to be denied ' the ordinary privilege of an appeal to the Full Court by originating summons J for an authoritative decision as to the ‘ validly or otherwise of the import con- * trol regulations. 1

Mistress: “I thought you had given up the milkman, Mary, but I saw you out with him again this evening.” Maid: “Oh! I’ve chucked him all right, mum. I'm just workin’ off a week’s notice with him.’’