LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 September 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Appeal for Reading Matter. An appeal is being made by the Masterton Y.M.C.A. for books, periodicals, etc, for forwarding to men on coastal defence duties on the East Coast. Donations may be left at the Y.M.C.A. Death After Accident. Mr James More, aged about 56, died in the Timaru Hospital yesterday from injuries received on Sunday night, when he was knocked from his bicycle by a motor-car on the Pleasant Point Road. Mr More suffered severe head injuries and had both legs broken. Recreation Week. The practice of the Inter-House and College girls’ teams for the ball game competitions in Recreation week have been postponed from tonight until tomorrow night. They will be held in the Municipal Hall at 7 p.m. under the direction of Miss Edwards. The Port Bowen. The work of unloading the cargo from the stranded steamer Port Bowen was finished yesterday, advantage having been taken of the fine weather to work continuous shifts. Work is now being concentrated on preparations for an attempt to move the steamer from the beach during the high spring tides this week. Infectious Diseases. For the week ended yesterday, 14 cases of infectious disease and one death, from pulmonary tuberculosis, were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department from tht? central Wellington area. The cases were as follows: Diphtheria (7), erysipelas (4), pulmonary tuberculosis (2), and eclampsia (1).

Price of Medical Supplies. In view of the urgency to replenish by importations of essential medical supplies of various classes which have become scarce, the Price Tribunal has told a large Auckland importing and distributing firm that it is prepared to allow it to market supplies ordered from overseas on a basis by which it can recover the increased costs that are now almost inseparable from importation. This is accepted as a satisfactory solution of the problem, and orders have been accordingly lodged in the United States of America for supplies urgently required by hospitals and the medical profession. Drowning of Cats.

“There is no actual cruelty in drowning a cat,” stated Mr J. J. Hinchcliff when reporting to a meeting of the Otago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals on a complaint of cruelty to cats. The complainant had stated that a neighbour (a girl of 16) drowned all the cats that came about her place, including the pets of her neighbours. It was not a case of cruelty, and the complainant had been advised that the society had no jurisdiction in the matter. “I saw a pile of three or four cats she had drowned,” Mr Hinchcliff added. “It looks more like a case for the sanitary inspector,” commented a member.