LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wireless Programme.

Tonight's wireless programmes will be found on Page 8.

Nursing Division. First aid certificates will be presented tonight at the usual meeting of the Nursing Division, St John Ambulance. The lecturer, Dr Graham Cowie, will make the presentations.

Egg Prices in Wellington. Supplies of eggs are said to be rapidly increasing in Wellington, and prices dropped by 2d a dozen yesterday. The wholesale price of specials is now Is lid a dozen, A grade Is lOd. B grade Is 9d and duck eggs Is lOd. It is stated that these prices are expected to be maintained for a full week. Card Evening. A bridge and five hundred card tournament was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms last evening by the Ladies’ Auxiliary. The winners of the prizes were: Bridge, Ladies, Mrs Beecroft; men, Mr Brabant. Five hundred, ladies, Mrs Searle. Interesting Competitions.

Two interesting competitions sponsored by the Wairarapa and Ruahine Aero Club and by the Masterton Model Aero Club will appear in tomorrow's "Times-Age.” The first competition of interest to all entitle the winners to free flights of 15 minutes each and the second provides for prizes of one year’s free membership in the Masterton Model Aero Club. Consolation prizes of free theatre tickets will also be awarded. Ngaruhoe Active.

The unusual activity of Ngaruhoe yesterday afternoon aroused much interest among guests at the Chateau Tongariro. A distinct column of light coloured fumes was visible on the summit of the volcano. At times it became darker and almost black, and rose for about a quarter of the height of Hie mountain above the summit. At first the column was thought, to be clouds round the mountain, but it persisted and was seen rising steadily most of the afternoon. Fumes often emerge, but the quantity today was unusual. Gaol for Car Conversion.

"I have to view these cases in a serious light,” said Mr J. Miller, S.M., in the Magistrate's Court. Napier, yesterday when sentencing three young men to terms of imprisonment with hard labour for unlawful conversion of a car in Napier on August 11. They were Joseph Meehan, hairdresser, Napitr (six weeks’ imprisonment), and Gustaf Albert Peterson, wharf labourer, Napier, and James Edward Forne, wharf labourer, Napier (each three months’ imprisonment).

Religious Toleration. Described by a home missioner as a great example much needed in these strenuous days was the action of a number of people when lie visited the back country of the Murchison district. Speaking in Wesley Church, Wellington. the missionary said that on the occasion of his visit to the district in question his congregation consisted of four people, nominally Roman Catholics, who not only entered freely into the spirit of the service, but also gave him' fine hospitality.

Singers For New Zealand. The centennial year in New Zealand is to be marked by the importation of some notable singers from the Old Country. 'Among these will be Miss Elizabeth Baillie, soprano; Miss Gladys Ripley, contralto; Mr Heddle Nash, tenor; and the New Zealand basso, who made such a good impression at the last Covent Garden opera season, Oscar Natzke. Mr Andersen Tyrer, pianist. composer and conductor, who has visited New Zealand on three previous occasions, is also to return to these shores next year.

Tapioca for Oranges. The artists engaged on the modelling for the Dominion Court at the New Zealand are represented by tiny green trees but the solution of depicting their golden harvests called for ingenuity. Ingenuity is never lacking among the Dominion Court staff, however, and tapioca painted yellow serves to indicate oranges. Lemons are yellow painted barley seeds stuck on the modelled trees. Rice grains are also used but their purpose is animal, not vegetable. The white backs of sheep in distant pastures are depicted by scattered rice and the effect is strikingly real. Hectic Wrestling. King Kong Cox was disqualified for striking Lofty Blomfield with his fists and for downing the referee, Mr J. McLean, with a forearm jolt in a wrestlingbout at Auckland last night. Exchanges were not friendly at any stage of the proceedings, but they culminated in a hectic tussle at the start of the seventh round, when both contestants punished each other with powerful jolts. When the referee intervened Cox grabbed the official in a headlock before flattening him with a jolt. A sergeant of police entered the ring with the intention of stopping the bout, but the referee jumped to his feet and disaualifled Cox. Two constables vaulted into the ring and ranged one on either side of Cox. Each wrestler had previously secured a fall.