LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 May 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

High Price for Eggs. Eggs offered in a Napier auction mart on Thursday were bid for freely, and sold at prices up to 4s 6d a dozen. It is believed that this is an all-time record for egg prices. Footballer Injured. W. Workman, a member of the Masterton Football Club’s senior team, received slight concussion while playing against Gladstone on Saturday. After receiving medical attention he was taken to his home. Aurora Australis. “For the next five years or so the number and brightness of the aurorae will gradually decline, though there should be a number of very fine displays during the next two years,” said Mr M. Geddes, the recent-oppointed Director of the Carter Observatory, in an address to tne last meeting of the Wellington branch of the Astronomical Section of the Royal Society of New Zealand. , Tractor Driver Fatally Injured. Mr Arthur James Stewart (junior), aged 22, Kirwee, died in the Christchurch Public Hospital yesterday from injuries received last Wednesday when a chuff-cutter passed over him. Driving a tractor near Aylesbury School, Stewart fell from the vehicle when making some adjustments, and the chaff-cutter, being drawn by the tractor passed over him. Stewart suffered severe internal injuries and a compound fracture of the right arm. Christchurch South By-Election. The central executive of the New Zealand Labour Party has chosen Mr R. M. Macfarlane, mayor of Christchurch, to contest the by-election for Christchurch South rendered necessary by the death of Mr Howard, M.P. Mr Macfarlane, who is 38 years of age, is a native of Christchurch, and has had a long association with the Labour movement. He was elected mayor of Christchurch last year, and is a member of various local institutions. Wellington Burglary. A number of offices in Kelvin Chambers, The Terrace, Wellington, were entered late on Saturday night or early on Sunday morning. It is believed tliat the contents of some of the rooms were ransacked, but it was not known last night whether anything was missing. Included in the premises entered were the rooms of the. Mental Hospitals Department on the first floor. An unsuccessful attempt was made to enter a building adjoining Kelvin Chambers. Body of Missing Woman Found. The body of Mrs Esma Valeria Harding, wife of Mr W. C. Harding, 17 Torwood Road, Kandallah, was found on the foreshore near the Kaiwarra railway station early yesterday afternoon. Mrs Harding,' who was aged 60 and had recently been in illhealth, is believed to have wandered from her home early yesterday morning. When she was z found to be missing, search parties consisting of police and Boy Scouts, assisted by Khan'dallah residents, were organised. The body was discovered by a party of Boy Scouts.

Tobacco Prices. The Government has decided that the average overall price to be paid tobacco growers for the 1939 crop shall be Is 10ad a pound for flue-cured leaf and Is 7Jd for air-dried. Manufacturers are being asked to open their buying for the season, which, begins on Monday morning, on this basis, on the understanding that the Government will see to it ( that they will be recouped later to the extent of the cost' involved over and above the basis they are themselves prepared to pay, namely, Is 8d and Is sd. This statement was made at Auckland on Saturday afternoon by the Ministei- in charge of the Tobacco Board, Mr Sullivan. New Rail Car Service. ' Information supplied by the Minister of Railways, Mr Sullivan, indicates that the recently inaugurated night railcar service between New Plymouth and Wellington was immediately popular with Taranaki and Wanganui travellers. “These railcars have proved so fast, comfortable, reliable and mobile that I am fully satisfied as to their superiority over other modes of transport, particularly in certain areas where difficult country has to be traversed,” said Mr Sullivan. “The next section to be operated with standard railcars is the Napier-Wairoa line, which is to be officially taken over by the Railways Department soon. “Application for railcar services have been received from various parts of the Dominion, and are now being considered. As the required railcars become available,- they will be placed on services in localities, where the best use can be made of them.”