LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 June 1939, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

Dominion Bowling Tourney. It was decided by the New Zealand Bowling Association'yesterday that the annual tournament should commence on January 8, 1940. Evidence of Early Tragedy. Mute evidence of an early New Zealand tragedy was brought to light when the skull of a Maori woman, split by a greenstone adze, which was still wedged in the bone, was found on the beach at Porangahau. The adze is of indifferent, quality. A tiki and ear pendants were discovered with the skeleton.

Writing Competition. In the competition that has developed in the writing of the Lord's Prayer on a postage stamp, Mr J. A. Lagden, New Zealand Railways, Wellington, has beaten all efforts so far by inscribing this prayer of 70 words eight times on the back of a New Z<. land penny stamp. Mr Lagden used a pen and printed the words.

Fumigation Victim. A verdict that Edmund Francis Glavin, who was found dead aboard the Maunganui after the ship had been fumigated at the Evans Bay Wharf, Wellington, had been poisoned by hydrocyanic acid, was returned by the coroner, Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., at an inquest yesterday. Glavin, who was aged 30, was employed as night watchman aboard the Maunganui. Footwear for Military Forces. Every boot factory in New Zealand has received orders for the manufacture of footwear for the military forces, according to a statement by Mr A. E. W. McDonald, Invercargill footwear merchant, at a meeting of the Defence League at Invercargill last night. Mr McDonald said a quota had been allotted to every factory and no factory could decline the orders. Football Tests. If proposals for the All Blacks' tour of South Africa next year, as submitted to the executive of the New Zealand Rugby Union last night, are approved by the N.Z.R.U. Council, the New Zealand team will play four Test matches on the tour. It is suggested that the team should sail in the Dominion Monarch, leaving Wellington on May 14, and arriving in South Africa on June 2. The Ceramic, which would leave South Africa about the middle of September, appeared to provide a suitable date for the return voyage.

Doctors & Social Security. The attitude of the B.M.A. towards the Social Security Act was fully discussed at the last monthly meeting of the Masterton Labour Representation Committee, when the following resolution was carried unanimously:—“That this meeting of the Masterton Labour Representation Committee strongly condemn the attitude of the British Medical Association in attempting to sabotage the finest piece of social legislation ever placed on the statute book of any country and the Government is urged to take a firm stand and insist that the will of the people as expressed at the last general election be given immediate effect to.” Garden Clubs. “Practically everything is in order for us to go ahead with the establishment of garden clubs in the city,” said Mr W. Balch, chairman of the management committee of the Canterbury Horticultural Society, speaking at the annual meeting of the society, in Christchurch.. The idea of forming garden clubs, he explained, had come from the United States, where such clubs did very valuable work in increasing interest in horticulture. The clubs would consist of women only, and would be formed in various parts of the city. Arrangements would be made for lectures and displays. Mr Balch added that he thought these clubs would be in operation during the coming year. Gambling In Wheat. A prophesy that the day is not far distant when the world’s wheat prices will be decided “not in bedlam on the Chicago Wheat Pit” but by sope international tribunal, was made by Mr J. B. Stratton, one of the biggest wheat growers and sheep breeders in Australia, in an interview at Auckland yesterday. “The present system of arriving at the price of wheat is iniquitous,” he said. “It is controlled by speculators in the wheat pit whose only knowledge of the grain is its relation to "dollars. A visit to the pit was a revelation to me. Gamblers appeared to go "beserk. Sir Stratton contends that the price of wheat must be stabilized in the interest of both the consumer and the producer. Diminished Dairy Production. Diminished dairy production, the result partly of weather, partly of labour costs, was reported by the chairman, Mr Arthur Morton (Egmont Village) in his opening address to the National Dairy Conference in Wellington yesterday. The Government was going to sustain a severe loss, he said. The Minister of Marketing. Mr Nash, had promised that if the industry would accept the stabilised price, labour also would stabilize its prices; but that had not been effected. . Speaking in Dunedin recently, the Acting-Minister of Marketing, Mr Lee Martin, had stated the loss up to May 25 as £1,827,000. That debt would now be greatly increased. All Mr Nash had in hand was a surplus from the previous year, amounting to about £500,000. Tuberculosis in Dairy Cattle. The necessity of eradicating tuberculosis from New Zealand dairy herds was urged by the chairman, Mr Arthur Morton, Egmont Village, in his opening address to the National Dairy Conference in Wellington yesterday. He said that other rival countries were already taking measures to do away with this disease; and if they succeeded in clearing their herds of it, when New Zealand had not yet done so, they would get a great advantage in marketing their produce, . which might prejudice New Zealand's export trade. “I do not want it to be thought that tuberculosis is worse -here than 'elsewhere,” he added. “New Zealand is remarkably free from tuberculosis; not more than six per cent of stock is affected.” Tonight, in the Epiphany Hall, the Epiphany Club will hold their plain and fancy dress dance. Mesdames J. A. Betts and F. Whitton have consented to act as judges of the fancy dresses, of which there is expected to be an outstanding display. Good music for the dancing wil be supplied by Mr Jack Barnes. An enjoyable time is promised patrons.