Military Enrolment.
The latest Wairarapa area enrolment in the Special Military Force is that of Thomas Keith Townsend. Carterton. The total enrolments to date have now reached 305. Flower Show on Wednesday.
Good entries have come to hand for the Masterton Horticultural Society's Spring Shew, which is to be held in the Municipal Hall on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Although the weather has been rather dry, there will be a profusion of choice blooms on exhibition. besides a full range of decorative work and home industries.
Intelligence of Maoris. "They are much more intelligent than many Europeans know,” said Mr Justice Blair in the Supreme Court in Gisborne, when discounting a suggestion made by Mr A. A. Whitehead that Maoris did not have the competence in business matters enjoyed by Europeans. The question occurred when Mr Whitehead said that many Maoris did not understand anything about securities. Motor Fatality at Auckland.
Fatal injuries were received by John Woods, aged about 21. Mount Eden, a passenger in the back seat of a motor car which crashed into a tree late on Saturday night in Jervois Road Ponsonby. Mr Woods died almost immediately from head injuries. The driver. Reginald Gulliver, and a companion in the front seat. James Henry GobbittDawson. both members of the air force, escaped injury. New Napier Wharf.
The necessary waiving of ceremony because of the war did not appear to lessen public interest in lhe berthing this afternoon of the first overseas vessel at the new No. 3 wharf at the Napier breakwater. The event offered a double attraction, first because the vessel was the largest of its kind to visit Napier and secondly because the harbour authorities had suspended the usual trespassing restrictions to enable residents to inspect lhe new wharf at close quarters. The ease with which the vessel was brought alongside by Captain A. McLachlan, harbour-master at Napier, suggests that with the completion of the extensive harbour development scheme Napier will assume added importance as n deep-sea port.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 4
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333Military Enrolment. Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 November 1939, Page 4
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