LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1939, Page 4

LOCAL & GENERAL

Win for New Zealand Bowlers. The touring New Zealand bowlers yesterday defeated Sandgate (Queensland) by 92 points to 79. Weatherburn won. 23-18 Adess won, 32-14; Dee lost, 15-24; Lancaster lost, 22-23. Diggers’ Market. In an earlier announcement the prizes for the best knitted articles containing 6 skeins or more of wool, for the Diggers’ Market, were inadvertently given incorrectly. The prizes are: Tirst, 12s 6d; second, 7s 6d; third, 2s 6d. Entries are to be handed in at the Municipal Hall between 3 -and 5 p.m. on Thursday, July 13. Railway Revenue. An increase of £70,257 in the net revenue compared with the same period last year is shown in the New Zealand Railways working account return for the period April 1 to May 27, 1939. The total revenue for the period under review was £1,585,319, as against £1,476,245, and expenditure £1,362,967, as against £1,324,150. The net revenues were £222,352, and £152,095.

Table Tennis Tour Approved. The secretary of the New Zealand Table Tennis Association has received cable advice that the visit to Australia of the New Zealand team of four at the end of August has been approved. New Zealand championships will be held in Dunedin on August 18 and 19. The South Island championships will be held in fnvercargill on August 16 and 17.

Improving Aerial Service. The first of the six new steel towers to be erected on the top of Tinakori Hill to improve the aerial system of ZLW, Government wireless station, was hoisted yesterday in 35 minutes without a hitch. A Post Office official explains that it is desired to improve the' existing services, including the radio telephone service, and this is being done by the adoption of a better aerial system by having six steel towers spread out along the ridges

Long-Range Bombers. Thirty Vickers Wellington longrange bombers, which are to be delivered by air to New Zealand, will probably leave Britain in five batches, between October next and. the following April, according, to advice received in Auckland. Outstanding among big bombers, the Vickers Wellingtons are built on the geodetic system of construction, which yields a specially low structure weight and so enables an unusually large load to be carried. With a heavy load of bombs they carry enough fuel for a non-stop flight of 3250 miles.

Equipment for Territorial Force. Orders had been placed for boots and clothing for the expanded Territorial Force and those members of the National Military Reserve who would be equipped, said the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, yesterday. Mr Jones said that the Army Department placed orders for such equipment every year, but the expansion of the Territorial Army, the Territorial Air Force, and the establishment of a reserve, together with the need for replenishing stocks, had led to orders being placed for 16,000 pairs of boots. The manufacture of these would be undertaken by a number of factories throughout the Dominion, but all footwear factories would not receive orders as some did not manufacture military boots. Revised Railway Charges.

The simplified railways tariff, embodying a revised scale of charges for general goods, to which reference has recently been made in the Press, will be brought into operation on Saturday, announced the Minister of Railways, Mr Sullivan, last night. ’ “The main feature of the simplified tariff is that it introduces a system of rating that has long been pressed for by commercial interests by reducing the number of classes for general merchandise from four to two,’.’ the Minister said. “This reduction in the number of classes had had the effect of bringing the railway tariff more into line with the requirements of present-day trading conditions and incidentally stabilises the rates on a lower average level.” Sent to Borstal. Because, as he said, Viola Winifred Ingram, a married woman, aged 21, Masterton, did not appear to appreciate the leniency extended by a term of probation, Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., sentenced her to 12 months’ borstal imprisonment when she appeared before him in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, charged with theft. De-tective-Sergeant P. Doyle said that Ingram was at the Wellington hospital when a Miss Joyce Wilson gave her a wrist watch, a fountain pen, a pair of gloves, and £1 5s 6d in cash to send to Miss Wilson’s home. Ingram kept them and later disposed of some of the articles and cash. The detectivesergeant said that 16 days before the offence was committed. Ingram was placed on probation on a charge of false pretences. Industrial Crowding. The tendency for new industries to crowd into two or three industrial areas such as Wellington and Auckland where they would be open to attack from enemy aircraft was pointed out by Mr Cullen (Government, Hawke’s Bay in a notice of a question in the House of Representatives yesterday. Mr Cullen intends to ask the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan, if he will give consideration when granting licences for new industries to the question of issuing them on the basis of a better distribution of population and the safeguarding of essential industries against possible enemy attack. The erection of a factory in Rongotai for the manufacture of aeroplanes,” said Mr Cullen, “is a striking instance of the present trend to which the question draws attention.” Guaranteed Price. The fixation of the guaranteed price for the coming dairying season at the figure recommended by the Price Advisory Committee for last year was advocated yesterday by the National Dairy Conference in Wellington. A suggestion that unless farmers were given a guaranteed price satisfactory to them, they should resort to “passive resistance” by not paying their taxes was made by Mr W. Harbutt, Cambridge, mover of the remit, which initiated the discussion. The remit was that the conference should endorse the resolution passed at the Dominion Dairy Board Conference, asking that the guaranteed price for 1939-40 bo that recommended by the Price Advisory Committee for 1938-39. This remit was carried. Discussion, however, of what action dairy companies should take if the Government did not accede to the request was deferred.