LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 April 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Publication on Good Friday. The “Wairarapa Times-Age" will not be published on Good Friday, April 7. Advertisers please note. The “Times-Age” will be published as usual on Easter Monday. Summer Time Ends on April 30. Summer time, which came into operation on September 25 of last year, will end on April 30 in accordance with the legislation which provides for a summer time period from the last Sunday in September of each year till the last Sunday of the following April. The next period will begin on September 24 of this year.

Vagrant Cows. “Te sand she blow up against te fence and cows just walk over. You have to build te higher fence.” This, said the chairman of the Hawke’s Bay Rivers Board. Mr C. Lassen, was the reply made by a Maori when complaint was made to him that his stock were grazing on a river board plantation in Moteo. The board decided to take stronger measures to protect its plantation.

Rough Rugby in Napier. "Club football in Napier was spoilt in a great many matches by rough play,” said Mr W. T. Foster, a vice-, president of the Hawke’s Bay Rugby Union, at the annual meeting of the union. The only really enjoyable matches outside the representative matches, he said, were provided by the interschool games. He asked whether the union could do something to prevent a repetition of some of the incidents which occurred last season.

Service of Witness. The annual Service of Witness, organised by the Masterton Ministers’ Association, is to be held on Good Friday night in the Opera House commencing at 7.45 o’clock. The chairman of the Ministers’ Association (the Rev D. McNeur) will preside, and the speakers will be the Revs J. Davie and F. J. Parker. Other ministers will also take part in the service. A collection will be taken up to defray expenses. The public are invited to be present at the service. Tradesmen from Australia.

Twenty-seven carpenters, two bricklayers, eight plasterers, two tilers and a painter arrived at Dunedin yesterday from Australia under the Government scheme. All were originally intended for Dunedin, but because of the shortage of men in. Wellington, most of them will go there. Four plasterers will remain in Dunedin for work on the railway bus terminal. A number of other tradesmen and labourers who have come on “spec” will remain in Dunedin or go to Christchurch. Centennial Exhibition. At the meeting of the board of directors of the New Zealand Centennial Exhibition Company, it was reported by the general manager, Mr C. P. Hainsworth, that more than 15,000 square feet of exhibition space had been allotted since the previous meeting of the board. This is a big increase over the areas previously allotted. A further 393 shares in the company were allotted to applicants, bringing the total to 126,622. The company will take over the buil'dings from the contractors at grhdual intervals during the next three weeks. Progress is still well ahead of contract schedule. Missing Car Mystery Solved.

The mystery of a missing Woodville motor-car for which the police had been inquiring over the whole of the North Island for the past fortnight, has been solved in an unexpected way. Two men from Levin were instructed to collect a car of a certain make and model which was supposed to have a cracked cylinder and which was parked in a side street in Woodville. In error, they took instead another car of the same make and model, and though it was in first-class running order they towed it all the way to Levin, where a garage failed to find any trace of a cracked cylinder. In the meantime the disabled car remained in a Woodville garage. Athletic Records Granted.

A number of applications for New Zealand records were dealt with by the council of the New Zealand Amateur Athletic Association last night. The following records were granted: 220 yards hurdles, P. F. Sharpley (Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay), 25 1-5 sec. on March 11 and 24 4-5 on March 18; 80 metres hurdles, Miss R. Tong (Hawke’s Bay-Poverty Bay) 12 3-5, on March 18; shot put, Miss E. Somers i (Auckland), 30ft 4in., on March 11; high jump, junior, W. M. Smeeton, 37ft O 'in., on March 11; 100 yards, Miss D. Lumley (Auckland) llsec. The following were recognised as best New Zealander’s performances: — Javelin throw, Miss M. Mitchell (Auckland), 117 ft 4in„ on March 11; high jump, Miss B. Forbes (Canterbury), sft Oijin, on March 11. New Generation of Sheepfarmers. “A new generation of sheep-farm-ers has arisen in New Zealand since the beginning of the post-war period and the problems and difficulties have increased with every year. The squatter has disappeared and in his place is the runholder with his 2000 to 5000 sheep and a host of handicaps which his predecessor never knew. I sympathise with the New Zealand woolgrower today and could wish that the average city dweller would show a little more understanding in the matter also.” In such fashion Mr E. C. Stewart, a visitor from New South Wales who arrived at Dunedin by the Maunganui, commented on a branch of primary industry in New Zealand with which he was familiar in Otago and Southland two decades ago, and which he has studied since. School Leaving Age. “Careers advisers have asked for information concerning the raising of the school leaving age,” stated the report of the boys’ vocational guidance officer of the Christchurch Youth Centre (Mr L. R. R. Denny), considered at a meeting of the Christchurch Technical College Board of Governors. “I should welcome a statement of the position showing at what age and under what conditions children are free to discontinuue their education and go to work. A clear statement seems urgently necessary, especially in connection with the issue of permits to go to work. Instances have come before officers of the centre where young people have left school at the age of 13, with only a Form 1 (Standard V) pass and have been working overtime before the age of 15. Some tightening of the conditions under which permission to leave for work is given would appear to be imperative if we are to prevent the absorption into industry of juveniles at. far too early an age.”