LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 February 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Nev/ Serial Story. There commences in the ‘'Times-Age” today a new story entitled “Peggy in Hollywood” by that noted authoress Mrs Patrick Macgill, “straight from Hollywood,” the story is novel, true, to life and intensely interesting. Mrs Macgill lives in Hollywood, is in the heart of the film industry, and gives a wonderfully faithful picture of the world of film “stars” and aspirants. Enjoyable Tennis. An enjoyable tennis match was played on the Masterton Club’s courts yesterday between the motor departments of Messrs Wright, Stephenson and Co., at Wellington and Masterton. The result was a win for the visitors by 15 matches to 8.

Engine-Driver’s Death. An engine-driver, Albert Ernest Rowley, married, agd 36, died in the Taihape Hospital early on Saturday morning from injuries received in a railway accident near Hunterville last Saturday. He was on the tender of the engine trimming coal, and is believed to have been struck by an overhead bridge. He was picked up unconscious on the track, and died without regaining consciousness. Health in the Schools.

Appointed to the School Medical Service as inspector of schools, Dr. Mavis V. Zane arrived in Auckland from London on Saturday and expects to begin her new duties on Monday. She explained that her duties were in furtherance of the Government s plan to raise the standard of physical fitness among the people in New Zealand. Her sphere would be in the schools, where she would supervise the health of children, with emphasis on the preventive side of medicine. She proposed to meet parents as well as children, and to tell them what they could do m their homes to improve the general health of children. Dr. Zane’s appointment is for three years. Harbour Swim.

The annual harbour swim for the Peck Shield was held from the Wellington dock wharf to Aotea Point and back, a distance of U miles, on Saturday afternoon before a large crowd. The water was practically smooth, but the temperature, not above 60 degrees, considerably affected the swimmers; more than 'half, though finished the course, suffered severely from cramp in the legs. The team finishes were keen, only seconds separating first and second. F. Pennington, AVellington club, gained fastest time, 60.2, a particularly fine effort. He finished in sixteenth position after giving away 25 minutes. The Peck Shield, which is awarded to the club team with the first four representatives home, went to Maranui A with 53 points; Lyall Bay A was second with 57, and Lyall Bay C third with 59.

British Pavilion.

The architect responsible for the design of the United Kingdom pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition, Mr G. O. Pratt, arrived in Auckland on Saturday. He said that he expected that the construction of the pavilion would be started in April. The building would be of striking modernistic design, with an interior of imitation stone. The displays would include model aeroplanes, ships, motor cars and locomotives. A feature would be a large map of the world, showing transport routes throughout the Empire. Mr Pratt stressed the fact that the pavilion would be purely a Government concern, and he had no knowledge of the possible effects of the new import regulations on exhibits from the United Kingdom. Mr Pratt is attached to the Department of Overseas Trade. London. Oysters by Air. Air transport was used the other day for the conveyance of 300 dozen oysters from Invercargill to Auckland, the journey occupying seven and a half hours. At 7 o’clock in the morning an aeroplane piloted by Mr A. J. Bradshaw' left Invercargill with the oysters safely stowed. It connected with the Union Airways liner at Taieri airport at 8.30 a.m. The oysters were transferred to the liner and arrived in Auckland in first-class condition at 2.30 p.m. in plenty of time for Aucklanders to enjoy the first catch of the season at their evening meal. This consignment of oysters by air was undertaken as an experiment,, and if it proved entirely successful it is more than probable that a quantity of oysters will be sent to Auckland by air during the remainder of the season. Girls from Britain. | The readiness of her organisation to ' arrange for this dispatch of domestics to New Zealand was mentioned on Saturday by Miss E. M. Thompson, C.8.E., chairman of the Society for the Overseas Settlement of British Women, who arrived in Auckland by the Mataroa to spend a short time in New Zealand before going to Australia to discuss the immigration of English £irls into the Commonwealth. If there was a shortage of domestics in New Zealand, said Miss Thompson, and satisfactory arrangements could be made for their reception and employment, her society would be pleased to see what relief it could afford. Though it would necessarily depend upon the circumstances and conditions, at a guess she would say that she could supply the Dominion with 200 girls in 12 months. Bull Invades Hotel. A blood-spattered Jersey bull shattered the Sabbath calm at the Ben Nevis hotel, Turakina, yesterday afternoon. when it burst into the lounge from the road and remained in possession of the room for two hours, while 15 men, armed with sticks, tried to drive it back to the road. A crowd of 200 gathered, and the excitement was intense, though no one was injured. Mr G. Lishman, proprietor of the hotel, said the damage was not extensive, though blood and shattered glass were strewn about, and carpets rumpled. The bull climbed half-way up the main staircase at one stage. A large mob of cattle was passing the hotel at about 3 p.m.. when the bull broke away and charged through the hotel doorway. The occupants of the lounge vacated it quickly as the animal entered with wild eyes and started charging about. The Ben Nevis Hotel is a new building, recently constructed to replace the original structure. which was gutted by fire a few months ago. The longest telegraph line in the world connects Darwin, North Australia, with Port Augusta. It measures ! 1900 miles long and took twenty-three months to instal. .