LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Severe Frost in Masterton. A frost of 13.7 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. In many cases residents found their water taps frozen, and in some instances, it is reported, taps burst.

Lapse of Creditors Meeting. A meeting of the creditors of Elwyn John Adams, Masterton, plasterer, who was adjudged bankrupt on Thursday last, which was to have been held at the Courthouse, Masterton, today, lapsed as no creditors were present.

Victim of Accident Dies. Mr N. F. Trolove, Wainoni Road. Christchurch, who suffered a compound fracture of the right arm when a car in which he was travelling collided with another car near Motukarara on Saturday, died in Christchurch Hospital at 10.35 o’clock last night.

Centennial Memorial. After having considered several proposals. the Otago centennial committee yesterday decided that the Dunedin centennial memorial will consist of a specially constructed look-out on Signal Hill, a vantage point which gives a comprehensive view of the city and upper harbour. Infectious Diseases.

For the week ended yesterday, 20 cases of infectious disease and three deaths, from tuberculosis, were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department, from the central Wellington area. The cases were:— Diphtheria (13), pulmonary tuberculosis (3), scarlet fever (2), and leadpoisoning (2).

Not Available for All Blacks. It is stated that T. Berghan will not be available for selection in the New Zealand Rugby team to tour South Africa next year, and it now appears that he may not be available for Otago teams during the coming season. Berghan, who is a dental student at Otago University, lost time from his studies last year through his tour of Australia with the New Zealand team, and it is known that he is not anxious to take any more time from his university studies.

Pipe Band Contest. The next centre contest of the Wel-lington-Hawke’s Bay Pipe Band Centre will be held in Feilding on the last Saturday in February, 1940. The assisting band will receive 10 per cent of the net profits, the centre 25 percent., and the remaining 65 per cent will be divided among the competing bands. No entry fee will be charged competing bands. The quickstep and drum-major’s display will be held in the afternoon and the test selection in the evening. These arrangements were made at a meeting of the centre at which affiliation was granted to the Wairarapa Scottish Pipe Band. Record Rates Struck.

“This year the council will strike the largest rate in its history,” said the chairman of the Hawke’s Bay County Council, Mr C. C. Smith, at yesterday’s meeting, when the 1939-40 rate, amounting to £60,000, was struck. This sum, when added to the hospital and harbour levies, made a grand total of £95,000. The two main reasons for that were last year’s disastrous flood, and the fact that because of the flood last year’s rates were unchanged and the council was now faced with an accumulation of two year’s increase in costs, said Mr Smith.

Goodwill Visit.

A goodwill visit to the Auckland Grammar School will be made by a party of 50 pupils and four masters from the Wellington Boys’ College, who will leave Wellington next Friday afternoon. This will be the first time that there has been contact of this nature between the two schools, and the headmaster, Mr W. A. Armour, will accompany the party. The visit will be on similar lines to the Otago Boys’ High School visit to Wellington some time ago. One of the outstanding events on the programme will be a Rugby match between the first fifteens of the two colleges.

State Lotteries Proposal. The question of State lotteries for hospital maintenance was discussed at yesterday’s meeting of the Hawke’s Bay County Council, members viewing a suggestion to this effect put forward by Cr E. H. Beamish in a favourable light. After some discussion it was decided to leave the question to Cr W. Tucker to bring up at the counties’ conference. The chairman said the money for hospitals should be provided by the Social Security Department to relieve the ratepayers. If they were not to be relieved as a result of this Act a most unfair position was created.

Deficiency in Estate. At a meeting at Invercargill yesterday of creditors of Charles Stephen Longuet, aged 78. solicitor, the amount owing to unsecured creditors was shown as £34.893, and to secured creditors £650. Assets were shown as £19,000, leaving a deficiency of more than £16,000. Unsecured creditors numbered 64, and the amounts ranged from £l7 to £2OOO. The affairs were described by the official assignee as "very complicated,” and the meeting was adjourned to July 24 to enable the assignee to get the assistance of a qualified accountant, and to allow creditors an opportunity to give proof of claims.

Fisherman’s Death.

"In my opinion death was due to cerebral haemorrhage,” said Dr Walter Gilmour, pathologist at the Auckland Hospital, when giving evidence before the coroner, Mr F. K. Hunt, S.M., yesterday regarding the death of Cecil Lock Earl, a fisherman, aged 51, who was found dead in a launch at Rakino Island on Tuesday. Dr Gilmour said that the post-mortem revealed a small bruise on the left side of the skull. The vessel on the right side of the brain had ruptured, causing a large haemorrhage. This was due to natural causes and not to injury. The inquest was adjourned.

Not Aware of Accident.

How a motorist ran over a child without being aware of it was related to the Coroner. Mr F. J. Adeane. at an inquest yesterday in Waipukurau. into the death of lan Arthur Natta, aged two and a half, a son of Mr and Mrs W. O. Natta, Porangahau Road. It was suggested that defective eyesight might have prevented James Wharmby, builder, Waipukurau. noticing the child on the roadway but this was denied by Wharmby. The Coroner returned a verdict that death occurred on July 5. from a fracture of the skull, received when the boy was knocked down by a car driven by Wharmby.