LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 September 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Day of Atonement.

The Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, began today. It is the culmination of the tenday period of repentance which began with the New Year. Special services and observances mark the Day of Atonement.

Football Tour May be Abandoned. The tour of the All Blacks in South Africa will be abandoned if the war is not over by January 1 next. This decision was reached by the council of the New Zealand Rugby Union at a meeting in Wellington yesterday. It has been decided that the trial matches continue as scheduled.

Theatres to Open Later. As from Monday, the Masterton theatres will commence their evening programmes .at 8 p.m. instead of 7.45 p.m. as at present. The. practice of changing the time of opening is usual in Masterton and with the introduction of Summer Time, ’ programmes commence at 8 p.m. daily.

Old Buildings Demolished. During the past few days some of the most ancient wooden dwellings in mid-Wellir.gton have disappeared. These were “Ye Ancient Smithy” and the two dwellings that stood between the Terminus Hotel property and York Street in Taranaki Street. It was estimated that these residences were over 70 years old.

Summer Time Begins Tomorrow. ■ Summer time will begin tomorrow at 2 a.m., when all timepieces must be advanced 30 minutes. This is the earliest possible date for the commencement of summer time, which is fixed by statute to begin on the last Sunday in September. As summer time ended last autumn on the latest possible date, April 30, that having been the last Sunday in April, it follows that the present period of standard time has been the shortest possible.

Daventry "Rebroadcasts. With .the change to summer time tomorrow, the times of the rebroadcasts of the Daventry news bulletins by all national stations will be: —Monday to Saturday: 6 a.m. (full), 7 a.m. (summary), 9.45 a.m. (full), 11.30 a.m. (summary), 12.30 p.m. (full), 4 p.m. (full), 6.15 p.m. (full), 9 p.m. (full), 10.45 p.m. (summary), 11.30 p.m. (full). Sunday: 6 a.m. (full), 7 a.m. (summary), 8 a.m. (summary), 9.45 a.m. (full), 12.30 p.m. (full), 4 p.m. (full), 9 p.m. (full), 10.45 p.m. (summary), 11.30 p.m. (full). Work of Parliament.

With five bills put through all stages and passed, good progress was made by the House of Representatives yesterday with the legislation on the order paper. The last of these was approved at 4.55 p.m., when the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, who;was apparently satisfied with the day’s . work, took the usual weekend adjournment till Tuesday afternoon. He indicated that he hoped to introduce the war time taxation proposals at that sitting. The measures passed were the Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Amendment Bill, Reserves and Other Lands Disposal Bill, Native Purposes Bill, Wages, Protection and Contractors’ Liens Bill and Local Legislation Bill.

Doctors and Resuscitation. “Many medical practitioners are very lacking in knowledge of resuscitation,” stated Mr H. H. Henderson at a meeting of the committee of the Otago branch of the Royal Life Saving Society of New Zealand, when it was decided to distribute 500 copies of a parhphlet, setting out the correct manner of applying the Schafer method of artificial respiration, among all medical practitioners, schools and clubs in the branch’s area. “Some time ago,” he added, “a doctor in a broadcast gave an entirely wrong description of resuscitation methods, but I sent him one of the society’s handbooks, and in a subsequent broadcast he gave the correct methods. We should send one of these pamphlets to every doctor in the province.” A Farm Mystery.

Thirty-five pigs and eight turkeys dropped dead on Mr W. G. McAnulty's farm at Pokeno (Auckland district) after being fed with a mixture of skim milk and meat soup. An employee went round the feeding pens in a horse-drawn vehicle on Thursday morning, carrying the containers with the skim milk and soup. These were mixed as they were poured into the feed receptacles. About 10 minutes later the pigs and turkeys which had been feeding at the receptacles were noticed to be rearing up and falling over, quivering, and dying within a few seconds. The nature of the feed given to the pigs was that usually put put to them in the morning. The symptoms suggest strychnine poisoning. Detectives are investigating. Mr McAnulty estimates his loss at about £lOO.