LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Exhibition Attendance. The attendance at the Centennial Exhibition yesterday was 9000. the total to date being 233,000. Extension of Soldiers’ Cemetery. A move for the extension of the soldiers’ cemetery at Karori is being made by the Wellington Returned Soldiers’ Association. Methodist Synod. An invitation from the Levin Church to hold the 1940 Synod of the Wellington Methodist Church in Levin was accepted by the synod yesterday.

Cricket Matches Postponed. On account of the inter-house sports being held on Saturday afternoon next, the Wairarapa Cricket Association has decided to postpone all matches.

Military Enrolments. The enrolments of F. H. Tully (Greytown) and H. M. Laing (Tinui) in the Special Military Force bring the total Wairarapa enlistments to 308. Interhouse Sports Day.

A platoon from the W.E.C. Mounted Rifles showed particularly good form at the Drill Hall last night, while the inter-house teams who were put through their final paces at the Park Oval also did well.

Search for Escapees. Police officers and warders are continuing the search in the National Park area for two men who escaped in recent weeks from prison camps. The men are Frank Norman Harrop, who escaped from the Waikune prison camp on November 15, and Raymond Patrick Leaton, who disappeared from the Houtu prison camp, near Tokaanu, on November 3. Alterations to Centra! School.

The Wellington Education Board has decided to make important alterations etc. to the Masterton Central School, these including remodelling and heating installation. Tenders for the work are being called, and will close at the Education Board’s office, Mercer Street, Wellington, at noon on Wednesday, December 6. Plans and specifications for the alterations can be seen at the “Times Age” Office. Union of Churches.

General approval of the proposed basis of union between the Congregational Church and the Methodist Church was given at the annual synod yesterday of the Methodist Church of New Zealand, Wellington district. The scheme has been submitted to all synods in New Zealand during the last two weeks, and they will forward their opinions to the Methodist Conference of New Zealand.

“John Buchan’s” Son to Marry. The Hon. William Buchan, second son of Lord Twcedsmuir, GovernorGeneral of Canada, is to marry Miss Nesta Irene Crozier, only daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel C. D. Crozier and Mrs Crozier, of Abington, Berkshire. Lord Tweedsmuir is best known as John Buchan, the novelist. His son became an assistant to Mr Alfred Hitchcock, who directed the film of Lord Tweedsmuir’s book, “The 39 Steps.”

A Strange Cloud Formation. A-peculiar cloud and light formation was visible from Masterton in the north-eastern sky towards sunset last evening. Against a background of cloud dappled at times in light and dark shades, a formation developed in which straight and sharply defined bands radiated upward and sideways, like the spokes of a mammoth wheel, from a centre low on the horizon. For a time the extremities of the spokes were ringed by a rainbow, the total effect being that of dark spokes and a rainbow-tinted rim. Christmas Fair. In connection with the Christmas Fair, Mr C. E. Grey, Queen Street, the De Luxe Cafe, Queen Street, and Mr J. V. Dolan (Municipal Hall) and the R.S.A. Office, Perry Street, have kindly consented to receive donations on behalf of the committee. The Fair, which is to be opened by the Mayor (Mr T. Jordan) at 2 p.m. on Friday, December 1, will provide a unique competition for children in connection with the Fairy Well. Mr J. Robertson, M.P.. who has been of great assistance to the committee, will preside at the opening. Imported Lemons. A shipment of 1000 cases of Californian lemons will be landed at Auckland on Saturday. It is stated by the Internal Marketing Division, which is importing the consignment and is, in control of lemon marketing in New Zealand, that the lemons will replace North Auckland lemons on the South Island market, and thus relieve the Dominion shortage by making local supplies available for North Island consumption. An Auckland grower informed a Masterton customer recently that as there was a shortage of lemons this season, principally through the frosts, lie could not supply an order. Need for Social Work. "With improved times, one would have supposed that the burden falling upon the State and social organisations would have been less, but, unfortunately, the improvement in conditions has not done that; rather the reverse,” said the Minister of Justice, the Hon H. G. R. Mason, in replying at Auckland to a deputation of social workers who had pointed out the difficulty of collecting maintenance from many husbands against whom orders had been made. “Thus it does not appear that the obligation would be a diminishing one,” the Minister added, when it was suggested that the department should pay the maintenance and collect in turn from the husbands.

Post-school Sports. The physical welfare branch of the Department of Internal Affairs has arranged to collect information from primary, intermediate and high schools to ascertain in what physical and recreational activities children leaving school desire to participate in postschool days. Cards are being printed for distribution to children leaving schools in the Wellington district which are within the area being operated by the department's area instructors. Details of the scheme, received in a letter from the Undersecretary of tlie Department of Internal Affairs, Mr Heenan, were before the executive of tile Wellington Education Board, which at yesterday's meeting recommended that the information requested be made available. This the board agreed to.