LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 June 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

enjoyable Dance. The Masterton Harrier Club held a thoroughly enjoyable dance in the Municipal Hall on Saturday night. Mr J. J. Hunter was a capable M.C. The large attendance danced to music supplied by Pool’s Blue River Orchestra. An excellent supper was served by the ladies committee. Many Hutt Valley harriers were present. Bad Weather in Wellington. Owing to rain, with a north-wester-ly, setting in overnight and prevailing today, the military parade to mark the King’s Birthday holiday was abandoned in Wellington. The women’s basketball tourney which was to have been held today was also abandoned, but other fixtures including Rugby and the women’s indoor basketball New Zealand tourney are being carried out. Unique Display with Sheep Dogs.

. A remarkable display, possibly unique in New Zealand, of the control of a team of four sheep dogs was given by Mr J. S. Tait, Darinevirke, at the combined field day of. the Dannevirke Young Farmers’ Club and the Southern Hawke’s Bay branch of the Farmers’ Union. Demonstrations of this kind are usually confined to a single day, but Mr. Tait used a team of four to handle the sheep, and the perfection of control astonished the spectators.

Congestion in Freezing Works. Because of congestion in the Wairoa freezing works, the proprietors made arrangements for a small shipment of frozen meat to be made through Wellington during the week-end, and to enable this to be done the Railways Department ran a special train. The' store chambers at the works are still very congested and the company has been able to cary on with killings only by incurring heavy expenditure and inconvenience in the double handling of a large proportion of the frozen meat awaiting shipment.

Play Readers Society Dissolved. The Play Readers Society of Well-, ington has decided to dissolve. The reasons that brought about this decision were the death of the president. Mr H. E. Nicholls, and the fact that the Repertory Society provides playreading facilities. It was decided that “the Play-Readers being the parent society of the many play-reading clubs now existing, the club’s library be presented to the Wellington Repertory Theatre, in memory of Mr Nicholls, the . moving spirit of the Play Readers for so many years.”

Methodist Church Memorial. The Methodist Church of New Zealand is as old as the Dominion. On Sunday, June-11, at 3 p.m., the president of the Methodist Conference, Rev. Angus Mcßean, will dedicate a monument and drinking fountain in the Manners Street Reserve, Wellington, to mark the site of the first Christian service held at Te Aro, Wellington. It was conducted on Sunday, June 9, 1839, by the methodist Missionaries, Rev. J. H. Bumby and Rev. John Hobbs. The Mayor of Wellington, Mr. Hislop, will accept the fountain on behalf of the citizens of Wellington. Drunken Motorist Sent to Gaol.. “Surely sufficient warnings have been given about this sort of thing,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, on Saturday, when imposing a sentence of 14 days’ gaol with hard labour on William Bennett, labourer, aged 17, who pleaded to being intoxicated in charge of a motor-car. At 12.5 o’clock that morning a constable, who was on duty in Adelaide Road, saw a car travelling in a northerly direction, said Sub-Inspector D. J. O’Neill, who prosecuted. Ten minutes later the constable found it parked on .the side of the road. A back door was open and accused was holding on to a girl who was vomiting. A youth was fast asleep in the front seat. Accused was in an advanced state of intoxication. The sub-inspector added that the whole party was drunk.