LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 September 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Daffodil Show. Mrs C. James, Opaki Road, was the winner of a cake raffled by the Masterton Horticultural Society at the Daffodil Show. ' Electric Power Interruption. Electric power will be cut off on Sunday from 1.30 p.m. to 3.30 pm., to allow work on the new line in Greytown, Kempton Road, Fabian Road, Moroa Road and Papawai. Decision Reserved. Decision was reserved by Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court yesterday in a complaint brought by Gladys Waters against Frederick Henry Andrews to keep the peace. Mr J. Macfarlane Laing appeared for complainant and Mr C. C. Marsack for defendant.

A New 'Hobby. A resident of New York collects the front page mastheads of newspapers from all over the world. He has followed his hobby for many years and his collection totals a variety of more than twenty thousand. He has written to the “Wairarapa Times-Age” stating that he was always looking for new and different headings and asked if he could be supplied with some from New Zealand papers. A selection has been sent forward, representative of papers in this country. Recreation Week.

A numb,er of girls representing Inter-House and College teams had an instructional practice in ball games for 'the Recreation Week competitions, at the Municipal Hall last night. The girls were trained by Miss Thompson, area instructress of the Physical Welfare branch of the Department of Internal Affairs, who will give further instruction next Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Municipal Hall. These ball games are almost all entirely new and tyill prove a special attraction for the programme to be given at Memorial Park on Saturday, October 7. Coloured Petrol for Tractors?

A decision to approach the Government about shorter hours for service stations was reached at a meeting of the Invercargill Petrol Resellers’ Association. It was decided to cease the practice of granting credit and to sell petrol on a cash basis. It was also resolved to ask the Government to colour petrol for use in tractors, as it was stated that many persons' were buying petrol for tractors, iobtaining a rebate, and using the petrol in their cars. Whitebait Marketing.

Advice has been received by a Dunedin firm that it is not intended to bring whitebait under the gen'eral licensing plan for the fishing industry as far as production is concerned. It will be included in so far as it is sold wholesale by the merchants and retail by the fishmongers, but this will not take place this season. Next season the general plan for the whole industry will be operating, and under this whitebait will come into the scope of the arrangements for distribution by wholesalers and resellers. Canning firms will therefore not be affected to any great extent. Oxford Group Assembly. In an atmosphere free of sectional and racial distinctions, people of varied nationalities and stations in life are attending the Oxford Group Assembly in Wellington. When the assembly was continued last night Europeans, a Chinese and a Maori were present. One of the most striking addresses was an appeal by this Native woman for a breaking down of barriers between races. Housewives, business men, school-teachers, sheepfarmers and carpenters were represented, ranging in age from those who had just left school to others well on in years. Age seemed just as keen to learn from youth as youth to benefit from experience. Hours in Industry. No such scheme was under consideration, said th<j Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, when referring in an interview yesterday to a rumour that the Government is preparing a plan for the extension of working hours in industry. Mr Webb added that he could only repeat his previous announcement that there would be no variation of awards till all parties concerned had been consulted. Arbitrary methods would not be adopted, and the Government had not yet contemplated making any extension of hours for any section of workers. In reply to a question, Mr Webb said he had not heard of a suggestion that a section of railway servants were to be placed on a 44-hour week. In any case, the suggestion \yas incorrect.