LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 April 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Women’s National Welfare League. The membership of the Masterton Women’s National Welfare League now stands at 80. College Playing Fields. The Wairarapa College playing fields have been resown after lying fallow during the summer. The seed was sown yesterday. The Old Boys’ Cricket Club donated a ton of superphosphate for topdressing. Fall From Bicycle. Mr E. Kjestrup, of Cambridge Terrace, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday with a fractured arm and other injuries, sustained when the front forks of a bicycle, on which he was pillion riding with his brother, suddenly snapped, throwing both men heavily to the roadway.

Hockey Umpires. The annual meeting of the Wairarapa Hockey Umpires’ Association, called for last night, lapsed for want of a quorum, only three members being present. A circular is being sent to all umpires, soliciting their asistance, and another meeting has been called for Tuesday night, in the Y.M.C.A. If no response is made the Association will be wound up. Guaranteed Price Wanted.

Fifty South Canterbury farmers at a meeting called for those favouring a guaranteed price for meat and wool carried a resolution that the meeting form itself into a Guaranteed Price Association to approach the Government for a guaranteed price for meat and wool to enable farmers to pay costs and give a standard of living commensurate with that of other sections of the community. Thanks to Park Custodian.

“I am very glad to receive a letter expressing appreciation of the work of a member of our staff,” remarked the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, at last night's meeting of the Borough Council when a letter was received from the Wairarapa R.S.A. thanking the Park Custodian, Mr H. Sturgeon for the artistic manner in which he had decorated the War Memorial surroundings-on Anzac Day. His assistance was greatly appreciated. Discovery of Moa Bones.

Digging under his house in the suburb of Seatoun, a Wellington man, Mr N. W. Thomas, came across the bones of a moa buried in the sand. They were in an excellent state of preservation, and have been identified by Di- W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Dominion Museum, and an eminent authority on the moa, as the bones of one of the larger species, not previously recorded from the North Island. Mr Thomas has presented.” them to the museum.

Erections of Hoardings. A motion, of which Councillor G. W. Morice had given notice to move, that the borough by-law relating to the erection of hoardings be repealed was briefly discussed at last night’s meeting of the Borough Council. Councillor Morice said he did not object to ad? vertisements on buildings, but took exception to hoardings plastered all over the countryside. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordon, pointed out that the Railways Department would not submit to the jurisdiction of local bodies in the matter of hoardings. The motion was defeated.

Fine Address. “I would like the board to congratulate the Rev E. J. Rich on the very inspiring address he gave to the boys and girls of the College,” said Mr Alex Donald, speaking at last night’s meeting of the Wairarapa College Board of Governors in reference to the Anzac service held in the College Assembly Hall. Mr Donald said the pupils listened with the closest attention, a fact which he attributed to a large extent to the excellence of the address. The board decided to write to Mr Rich on the lines suggested. New Zealand-made Wines.

New Zealand-made wines were supplied to guests at the opening ceremony of “Manufacturers’ Chambers,” the new home of the Wellington Manufacturers’ Association, yesterday. The president of the association, Mr W. H. Stevens, said they were of excellent quality and compared quite favourably with many of the best imported brands. He apologised for having no New Zea-land-made whisky and gin. New Zealand had not yet got to the stage where it was able to manufacture its own spirits, he said, but perhaps at some later time the Government and people of New Zealand would realise that the consumption of New Zealand-made spirits would save a great deal of overseas exchange funds.

Sequel to Fatal Motor Accident. Ruling that a prima facie case had not been established. Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, dismissed the charge of negligent driving thereby causing death preferred against James Alexander Wilson, alias James Kennedy, aged 19. The case arose from a fatal accident on the Hutt Road early on the morning of March 2 when two young women, Mavis Eleanor Sixsmith and Audrey Joyce Wright, lost their lives as a result of a motor-truck overturning. Accused pleaded guilty to a charge of converting on March 1 a motortruck, the property of Boon and Braid; plumbers, and was remanded till next Monday for sentence. The magistrate said there was no evidence of recklessness or excessive speed, but there was evidence of a defect which accused knew nothing about.