LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 March 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Truby King Memorial Bed. The money collected by the New Zealand guides for a Truby King Memorial is to go toward the endowment of a bed at the Karitane Hospital, Dunedin. Call to Grass Fire.

The Masterton Fire Brigade received a call at 9.45 o’clock this morning to a grass fire in a vacant section at the southern end of Queen Street. The brigade quickly had the outbreak under control, and prevented the flames from spreading to a nearby shed and a wooden fence.

Social Security Act. In connection with the payments locally of benefits under the Social Security Act, the officer in charge of the Masterton Employment Bureau states that he has now received the official forms in connection therewith, and these can be obtained on application. Orchestral Society.

At the annual general meeting of the Masterton Orchestral Society which will be held on Tuesday next, March 21, at 7.30 p.m., in the Savage Club Rooms, Perry Street, the annual report and balance sheet will be presented and officers elected for the ensuing year. A number of matters of importance to members will come up for discussion.

Unsightly Hoardings. At a meeting of the Paraparaumu Beautifying Society, attention was called to what was termed “the tremendous number of unsightly hoardings in some quarters of the district.” The meeting was of opinion that very strict control should be exercised by the authorities over the issue of permits for the erection of hoardings, and it was decided to approach the county council and ask if it was not possible to have offending hoardings removed. Bowling Tourney Dates.

A letter from the New Zealand Federation of Funeral Directors asking for the date of the closing of the New Zealand bowling tournament in 1940 was received at last night’s meeting of the Wellington Bowling Centre. It was explained that the federation proposed to hold its next annual Dominion conference in Wellington in January next, after the bowling tournament, as a number of delegates would be very much interested in that tournament. The secretary, Mr A. F. Spiller, reported that he had advised the federation that the tournament would finish on January' 20 or 22.

Sir Julien Cahn’s Generosity. Not content with bringing his cricket team to New Zealand at his own expense, Sir Julien Cahn has proved what a good patron of the game he is by giving £lOO to the New Zealand Cricket Council to recompense it for the loss of gate takings through ram preventing any play on Friday and Saturday in the match between his team and the New Zealand'eleven in Wellington. The donation has been gratefully accepted. Sir Julien Cahn’s team will play a one-day match in Rotorua today, and will conclude the tour with a match against Auckland, in Auckland, on Friday, Saturday and Monday next.

Motion Pictures in a Church. One meeting at the annual assembly of the Congregational Union of New Zealand in Christchurch this week will be unique in that for the first time in New Zealand motion pictures will be shown in a church. For his missionary address this evening, the Rev D. Gardner-Miller, Christchurch, who is a member of the Religious Film Society of Great Britain, will use a projector which he has brought back from England to display sound and silent films of religious subjects and of the missionary work of the Church. Mr Miller is engaged with ministers of other denominations in efforts to form a Christian Cinema Council in New Zealand, so that recent developments in this aspect of church work overseas may be extended to the Dominion.

Polo Tournament at Feilding. The annual Savile Cup polo tournament will open in Feilding on Monday, March 20, when leading teams in Feilding, as well as the pick of the players of the North Island, will be seen in action on the New Zealand Polo Association’s ground on the Feilding Jock* ey Club’s property. As well as the competitions for the Savile Handicap Cup and the Junior Handicap Cup, the Australasian Gold Cup will be played for by selected teams. The draw for the Savile Cup is:—Monday afternoon: Cambridge v Rangitikei; Matangi v Hawke’s Bay. The final will be played on Wednesday afternoon. The draw for the Junior Cup is:— Tuesday afternoon. Taihape v Hawke’s Bay; Rangitikei v Masterton. The final will be played on Thursday afternoon. Benefactor of Orphanages.

A further donation toward the North Auckland Protestant Orphanage, to be built in Whangarei, has been made by an anonymous donor who has already been instrumental in the founding of the orphanage. Writing to the Whangarei Hospital Board, he said he was prepared to give £2OOO to be used for the benefit of boys and girls from the orphanage who might require hospital treatment. The offer was accepted with thanks. “This sum will bring the donations to the orphanage from this gentleman to £13,600,” said Mr F. Higginson, a member of the board. He had given £lOOO for the site of the orphanage, £lO.OOO as a trust fund for the maintenance of the institution, and £6OO toward the building. The balance of the building trust is being raised by public subscription. Mr Higginson stated that the same donor had given £73,000 toward orphanage funds in Auckland. Centennial Exhibition. Arrangements for the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington, which is to be opened in November, are already six weeks ahead of schedule. The general manager, Mr C. P. Hainsworth, who was general manager of the New Zealand and South Seas Exhibition in Dunedin 15 years ago, said in an interview last night that, in spite of the time that had elapsed, Dunedin people were still “exhibition minded,’ and in this way differed from the citizens of Wellington, who were proving rather difficult to educate in this direction. The Government pavilion at the exhibition, with its 104,000 feet of floor space, had just been taken over, Mr Hainsworth added, and work on the internal fittings was being proceeded with. The combined Dominion court had been occupied for several weeks, and work on the interior was going ahead quickly. Arrangements were now in hand for the erection of the British pavilion.