LOCAL & GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 July 1939, Page 6

LOCAL & GENERAL

A Clean Sheet. No bankruptcies were recorded in Wairarapa in June, neither have there been any so far this year. Drivers’ Licences. The Masterton County Council issued 252 drivers’ licences last month, bringing the total issued to date this year to 1127. : Vital Statistics. The vital statistics for Masterton for last month, with figures for June, 1938. in parentheses, are: —Births, 13 (25); deaths, 6 (6); marriages, 12 (13). Power Interruption. Electric power will be off tomorrow, to allow essential in the following districts: —Greytown Borough, Papawai, Moroa, Morison’s Bush, Tawaha, Ward’s Line and Battersea. Farmer Gored to Death. The death has occurred in the Waikato Hospital of Claude Harry . Doe, 54, single, farmer, Kinohaku, who was gored by a cow on June 14. The animal charged him and forced him against a fence, causing severe injuries. Building Permits. The Masterton Borough Council issued in June 11 permits (1 for a new dwelling) of an estimated value of £1,618, compared with 5 permits (1 new dwelling) of an estimated value of £3,049 5s for June, 1938. The County Council issued 2 permits of an estimated value of £4lO last month. f Drama League Festival. Record entries have been received for the Wairarapa Drama League’s Festival to be held on July 15, 17 and 18. Thirteen teams have entered, four in the junior section and nine in the senior. Mr E. N. Hogben, of Dannevirke, is unable to judge the junior plays which are to be presented on Saturday afternoon, July 15, and Mrs Victor Lloyd has accepted the position. Royal Air Force Pilots. Trained pilots sent from New Zealand to serve with the Royal Air Force at the rate of 220 a year under the expanded aviation scheme announced on Thursday by the Minister of Defence, -Mr Jones, will be worth £374.000 sterling annually to the Government. It was explained yesterday by. Mr Jones, in discussing further details of the scheme, that New Zealand would receive £l7OO sterling for each trained pilot sent to England, instead of the allowance of £1550 ruling up to the present. Trout Yearlings. Thirty thousand trout yearlings, at present accommodated in the Wairarapa ponds at the Masterton Fish Hatcheries will probably be liberated in the Ruamahanga and Kopuaranga rivers next month. During the absence of the curator, Mr J. G. Miller, who for the past seven weeks has been trappingfish in the King Country, the yearlings have been under the care of members of the Masterton committee. A batch of 160,000 brown trout ova from Otago, the first of the season, has just arrived at the Hatcheries, and further consignments are expected in the near future.

Imperial Cadet Competition. At Scots College, Wellington, yesterday afternoon the Governor-Gen-eral, Lord Galway, handed over to C Company, 7th Cadet Battalion (Scots College), the Wellington Regiment, the Earl Roberts Cadet Trophy which it won for 1938 in competition with cadet corps throughout the British Empire. The Scots College team, which comprised Company Sergeant-Major J. G. Ross, Sergeant P. G. Brown, Sergeant A. M. Jolly, and Sergeant I. H. MacDonald, won the trophy in September last with an aggregate of 294 points for a team of four. St Andrew Society. About 50 members of the Wellington Caledonian Society, including the Pipe “Band, will visit Masterton tonight to attend the St Andrew Society gathering to be held in the Municipal Hall. On arrival the visitors will be entertained at tea in the Social Hall by the Masterton Society. A large attendance is expected at the dance to be held tonight. Scottish dancing and items by the pipe Band will be features of the evening’s entertainment, and a most enjoyable time is assured all who attend. On this occasion non-members of the society will be admitted without introduction. Cheaper Oranges.

As a result of a very large shipment being brought from the Cook Islands by the Matua, oranges are selling in Auckland at cheaper rates than for many weeks past. Store prices are 25 per cent lower than those set for the Matua’s last shipment, and a corresponding decrease is noticeable in the retail figure. The Matua unloaded 19,000 cases on Thursday, and the Auckland consignment, consisting of those brought from Atiu, was available at the markets today. The South Island is receiving 5000 cases from Aitutaki and another large consignment from Mangala is being held in cool store for later requirements. Wholesale prices, fixed by the Internal Marketing Department for the Auckland consignment, were: 126 count. 14s 6d case; 150 count, 15s Gd: 176 count, 17s; and 200 to 252 counts, 18s 6d. Meat Producers' Board. Nine nominations have been received for the three vacancies for producers’ representatives on the New Zealand Meat Producers' Board. Those nominated: — Messrs H. D. Acland, Christchurch (sitting member): I. L. M. Coop, Ataahua, Canterbury; J. Cowie, Balfour, Southland; C. C. Holmes. Otaki Railway, Wellington; J. M. James, Masterton; J. D. W. Ormond. Waipukurau (sitting member): J. H. Reid, Toa Toa, Bay of Plenty; H. E. Worsp, Whangarei. The election will take place on August 31, when the delegates who will be elected to represent the various districts throughout the Dominion and who will constitute the Electoral Committee, will assemble in Wellington to consider the seventeenth annual report and statement of accounts of the board and to elect the three producers' representatives on the board. Nominations for delegates to the Electoral Committee close at the Board’s Office at noon on July 7. and a postal ballot will then be conducted amongst the sheepfarmers in tiie districts where the nominations are in excess of the number of delegates required. Prospective settlers in South Africa are advised that there is money- in ostriches. But seldom, it is understood, more than a few small coins of little value.