LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 June 1939, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Workmen's Clothes Destroyed. Early yesterday morning fire destroyed the workmen’s bath-house at the Blackball coal mine. Eight men on shift lost a change of clothes and another 50 their working clothes. The fire will not affect the working of the mine. The building will be re-erected immediately. Reconstruction Work. A start has been made with the reconstruction of the building at the Wainwaga Freezing Works gutted by fire earlier in the year. The task will occupy some months but the building will be completed in readiness for the next killing season. St. Andrew Society. Advice nas been received from the Wellington Caledonian Society that it has accepted the invitation of the St. Andrew Society, Masterton, to attend the gathering to be held on July 1. A large party is expected from the Wellington Society, including its wellknown pipe band.

Tribute to Mr. Savage. Tribute to the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, for his recent broadcast defence appeal was paid by the president of the New Zealand Defence League, Mr. Perry, M.L.C., in his address at the annual conference of the league in Wellington yesterday. At the same time Mr. Perry said the league advocated both compulsory military training and a compulsory national register, and the Government had proclaimed its opposition to both those things.

Chinese Boy’s Progress. The Kaikohe District High School adopted a Chinese boy at the beginning of the year, providing a home and the money required for his education. At the Auckland Education Board’s meeting yesterday it was stated that the boy, seven years old, had speedily adapted himself to his new environment. He had learned to speak English equal to others in the class, and he had also acquired a smattering of Maori. His progress is regarded as remarkable.

“Feels Very Much Like a Tax.” The president of the Accountant Students’ Society, Mr C. T. R. Cain, speaking at a meeting of the Society, referred to a conversation he had had with the speaker for the evening, Mr W. Copeland, who is the chief inspector of the Land and Income Tax Department. Mr Cain said that when he had referred to the “social security tax.” Mr Copeland informed him that the “tax” was a “contribution.” “However,” continued Mr Cain, “when going to the Post Office to pay the ‘contribution’ it feels very much like a tax.”

Breaking and Entering. Police, surrounding a warehouse in Ghuznee Street, Wellington, early on the morning of May 26, caught tw.o men, who were jointly charged in the Magistrates’ Court yesterday with breaking and entering the warehouse of Winstone’s Limited, with intent to commit theft. The men were Gordon Thomas Wilkie, mechanic, aged 40, and Charles Raoul Francis Gawp, aged 21. Both accused pleaded guilty and were committed■ by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence. Detective-Sergeant W. McLennan prosecuted. St. John Ambulance Appeal. An appeal is being made by the St. John Ambulance Brigade to all exmembers of ambulance and nursing divisions of the brigade and to men and women who have gained first aid and home nursing certificates to supply their names and addresses with a view to the compilation of a register of those willing to serve with the brigade in an emergency. It is stated that there are likely to be a number of men who have served with the R.A.M.C. or N.Z.M.C., who, if approached, would be willing to join up with the St. John Ambulance Brigade and serve in a reserve division. < . Compulsory Training Urged. The conviction that only universal compulsory training would provide the trained man-power which was essential in the interests of defence was expressed in a statement of its policy approved by the annual conference of the New Zealand Defence League in Wellington yesterday. Having regard to the seri ■ ousness of the situation as disclosed by the Prime Minister, the league expressed its conviction that an establishment of 16,000 men for the Territorial Force was entirely inadequate and it urged the complete restoration of the territorial units as they existed before 1921 with an establishment of no fewer than 25,000 men. Farmers and their Leaders. A recent suggestion by the Prime Minister. Mr Savage, that the Dominion president of the Farmers’ Union, Mr W. W. Mulholland, did not enjoy the whole hearted support by farmers was emphatically refuted by the provincial conference of the Otago branch of the Farmers’ Union yesterday, when the following resolution was carried with enthusiasm:—“That this conference greatly regrets the statement recently attributed to the Prime Minister to the effect that the farmers of this Dominion are not behind the Dominion, president, Mr Mulholland, and assures the Prime Minister that, so far as Otago is concerned, his statement is contrary to fact.” New Number Plates. On a recent evening at a few minutes to eight, a car drew up outside a Christchurch theatre with much rattling. The party clambered out and inspected both front and rear to see if their respect for the law had justified tying on the new plates with a flimsy pieec of string. However, both were intact, even though somewhat aslant. With still one day of grace, the majority of motorists had their new plates attached. Great efficiency was shown by one person who evidently refused to be caught one way or the other, as he displayed sets of plates for both years, while another had his new ones fixed permanently two days before time, and carried last year's on top tied with string. I have lost four toes in the Mount Cook snows; An eye on the Tasman Sea; A hand and a jaw in a circular saw. And a foot by a falling tree. But I never took ill from a cold or a chill. For health I could aye endure. By welting my throttle in time with a bottle Of Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 29