LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 June 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

New Zealand Rugby League Team. The New Zealand Rugby League team to tour England and France will probably now assemble in Wellington and sail by the Rangitiki on July 27. Formerly the team was to have left from Auckland.

Start Early. “To teach the child to read you must start early, in Standards 1 and 2,” said Mr Jones, speaking as a member of a deputation that waited on the Trust Lands Trust last night. Mr J. W. T. Jones said he had hopes of providing books in the combined schools library for the more junior members.

Trust Estimates Meeting. Members of the Masterton Trust Lands Trust were in an argumentative mood at the estimates meeting last night and three and half hours were occupied in dealing with business. Portion of the time was taken up by a deputation from the Masterton Headmasters’ Association. Those present were the chairman, Mr H. P. Hugo and Messrs J. Macfarlane Laing, E G. Eton, A. O. Jones, C. E. Grey, H. H. Daniell, J. H. Handyside, R. Krahagen and R. Page.

Masterton Municipal Band. The Master ton Municipal band’s playing in the band rotunda last night was very highly spoken of by a number of visitors who were present. Particularly well-played was the selection “The President,’’ showing the marked progress the band is making. The members are working strenuously to bring the band up to the standard it once enjoyed as one of the leading bands in the Dominion, and their efforts are meeting with considerable success.

Last Night’s Cabaret. The cabaret held in the Masterton Municipal Hall last night by the Wairarapa branch of the Wanganui Collegiate School Old Boys Association proved a most enjoyable gathering. Visitors were present from as far afield as Dannevirke, Hastings, Wellington, Wanganui and elsewhere. The hall was brightly decorated in the college colours, black, blue and gold. Henry Rudolph’s Dance Orchestra was responsible for the excellent music for the dancing. Labour Party Dance. The fortnightly dance and euchre party held last night in the Y.M.C.A. under the auspices of the social committee of the local branch of the New Zealand Labour Party was well patronised. The winners of the euchre were Mrs Henderson and Mr A. Watson. The Monte Carlo winners were Miss Stewart and partner. Music was supplied by members of the Barnes Rhythm Boys. The duties of M.C. were capably carried out by Mr Pat Ward. The next of these series of populai’ dances will be held on' Thursday, June 22. Gift of Books.-,

“A week ago we never had a reference library at all,” said Mr J. Jones, headmaster of the Lansdowne School, when speaking last night as a member of a deputation which waited on the Trust Lands Trust. He went on to state that Mrs Hubbal had generously donated a complete set of 59 volumes of Arthur Mee’s children’s magazine, and this was now the nucleus of the school reference library. At last night’s meeting of the Landsowne School Committe reference was made to Mrs Hubbal’s gift and the committee decided to write to the donor and thank her.

Loan at per cent. “It was most satisfactory to me as chairman to be signing debentures at 31 per cent on the very day that it was announced that the Government would pay 4£ per cent,” said Mr F. Purnell, chairman of the WanganuiRangitikei Electric Power Board, at the monthly meeting, reporting the receipt of a loan of £12,000 from the State Advances Corporation. “This was probably the last loan lent by the corporation at 3i per cent interest,” said Mr Purnell. “The loan will see our finances through till March, 1940. The board would save 25s a week in interest because it obtained the old rate.” The secretary, Mr G. A. Amundson, was thanked for his efforts in the loan negotiations. School Jubilee.

First opened on Monday, October 28, 1889, Mangatainoka School celebrated its jubilee yesterday. Fully 500 people attended the ceremony at the school during the afternoon. The visitors included Mrs Taylor, Wanganui, a daughter o£ Mr W. H. Wilson, the first headmaster, and who for many years acted as her father’s assistant at the school; Sir Alfred and Lady Ransom; Mr G. W. Chatwin, headmaster of the school for 14 years; Mr Cecil Brown, son of the late Mr W. Brown, who was chairman of the school committee for very many years; the Mayor of Pahiatua, Mr Siddells; Mr Bryant, representing the Pahiatua County Council; and Colonel McDonald and Mr W. R. Nicol, representing the Wellington Education Board. Defence Volunteers.

Seventeen field officers and four members of the head office staff of the wild life branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, together with the Ministerial head of the department, Mr Parry, called on the Prime Minister, Mr Savage, yesterday to offer him their services for the defence of New Zealand. The field officers, who have been attending an official conference in Wellington, are engaged in deer destruction work in the bush and mountain ranges of the Dominion. In accepting the offer, the Prime Minister expressed keen appreciation of the men’s action. He also thanked, on behalf of the Government, the other 6000 men who had already enrolled in the National Military Reserve, and appealed to others who had not already enrolled to do so without delay.

T.B. Hesting of Cows. The opinion that the dairying industry could not stand the complete application of the tuberculin test for dairying cows at present was expressed by the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Lee Martin, at the South Island Dairy Association’s conference. The question arose when Mr W. Muir, Tuturau, asked what the Government proposed to do to make the test universal. “The problem is a national one,” Mr Lee Martin said, “and much is being done, but, with as high as 60 per cent reaction to the test, the industry cannot afford the wholesale culling and slaughtering that would be necessary. “In the meantime the Health Department considers that pasteurisation of milk is an adequate safeguard. “Both the Department of Agriculture and the Health Department are alive to the matter, however, and as soon as a universal tuberculin test is warranted it will be applied.”