LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 November 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Exhibition Attendances. The attendance at the Centennial Exhibition yesterday was 9850, making the total number of visitors to date 290,870. The daily average has been 17,100. Territorial Camp. The Hawke's 'Bay Regiment's annual camp will be held at Waiouru from March 2 to March 9. The Taranaki Regiment will be in camp at the same time. It is anticipated that the Masterton unit will be well represented. Tui Kills Thrush in Fight. Bird lovers are delighted to hear the notes if the tui, but this native can be more than a minstrel. The other day a tui and a thrush came down fighting on a lawn of an Auckland hotel, a few feet from where people were sitting. The struggle was short. • When the tui flew off, the thrush lay dead with a deep beak-wound in the top of the head. Infectious Diseases. For the week ended yesterday. 19 cases of infectious diseases and five deaths from tuberculosis, were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department from the central Wellington area. The notifications were as follows: —Diphtheria (8), Pulmonary tuberculosis (4), Erysipelas (3), scarlet fever (1), puerperal fever (1), septic abortion (1) and eclampsia (1). Training College Candidates. About 170 candidates for entrance to the Wellington Teachers’ Training College are at present appearing before a selection committee comprising Mr W. V. Dwyer, chairman of the Wellington Education Board, Mr F. C. Lopdell, principal of the Training College, and D. McCaskill, senior inspector. There’ is also a medical examination. Wellington’s quota of students for next year is 84. Warm Day in Wellington. Yesterday was the warmest day Wellington has experienced this season. The maximum temperature recorded at Kelburn was 69.4 degrees, compared with 68.8 degrees on November 16 66.8 degrees on October 11, and 66.3 degrees on October 9. The day was unusual for Wellington, being dull and muggy with a light breeze from the north. There was practically no sunshine. In Masterton yesterday the shade temperature was 70.9 degrees. Student’s Powers. A variation of the story of the punishment that descended on the son of the house when his father did his homework —In a suburban school (says the Dunedin “Star”- a student teacher was entrusted with marking the children’s home lessons, and when the teacher examined the book of one pupil it was found to bear the mark, in monotonous succession, “Bad, bad, bad, bad.” Thoughtfully considering a plan to test the student’s powers of judgment, the teacher decided to do the child’s home work for one night, but received a rude shock when the effort appeared labelled “Very bad.” After Twenty Years. A pupil at the Auckland Girls’ Grammar School in 1919 was awarded a bronze medallion by the St John Ambulance Association for first-aid and home nursing, but on the day it was to be presented she was too bashful to receive it. and it was not until last week that she, now a married woman, took courage and claimed the medal. About eight weeks ago she took a refresher course in the two subjects in which she proved proficient as a school-girl, and passed once more. When she received her certificate, she mentioned her maiden name and asked if the office had any trace of a bronze medallion unclaimed for 20 years. It was duly handed to her. Sickness in Soldier Camps. Discussing the recent cases of influenza among the soldiers, the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones said last night that seasonal sickness had been general throughout the camps. Such sickness would very probably become more general in such places as military camps, where men were congregated together, but medical officers and nurses with whom he had talked all agreed that sickness was rapidly waning, It was interesting to note that the buildings which had been so generously lent to the Wellington hospital authorities by the Wellington Racing Club, for the use of soldier patients, would be empty during the next few days. These buildings had been very useful at the time. Christmas Fair in Masterton. Masterton is responding in a splendid fashion to the appeal for donations of produce, cakes, sweets, fancy work, etc., for the stalls at the Christmas Fair to be held in the Municipal Hall, Masterton, on Friday, December 1, the opening of which will be performed by the Mayor (Mr T. Jordan), at 1.30 p.m. The competitions are of a varied character and include cakes, butter, sweets, scones, and best dressed doll. The baby show promises to be one of the most successful held in Masterton as a considerable number of entries have been already promised. The fair is being held in aid of the patriotic fund to help the soldiers. Those who wish to contribute to the stalls may leave their donations at the R.S.A. office, the premises of Mr C. E. Grey, Queen Street, the De Luxe Cafe, Queen Street or with Mr J. V. Dolan. Municipal biddings, or the secretary. Mr P. Doyle, telephone 1956, Liquor at Dance Hall, “There is only one decision in this particular case, and that is that defendant is guilty,” said Mr Levvey in the Christchurch Magistrates' Court when giving his decision in a case in which Colin Curragh. who transported liquor to a dance hall in his car, was charged under the new law. The magistrate added that he had come to the decision reluctantly .specially in view of the excessive penal nature of the statute. (He regretted that defendant was not in a position to appeal, as he felt that the question raised by the man of the word “control” was an important, one and worthy of the attention of the Appeal Court. Curragh, who was convicted and ordered to pay costs, was charged that, while a dance was being held at the Lincoln Public Hall, on November 5. he had in his possesion or control a two-gallon jar containing beer. At last Thursday's sitting of the Court another young man named Childs, owner of the jar and the beer, who was a passenger in Curragh’s car. was fined 10s on a charge similar to that brought against Curragh.