LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1939, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attendance at Exhibition. Yesterday 8151 people attended the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington. The total attendance has reached 328.847. the daily average being 15,659. ■ Books For Soldiers. Sergeant-Major C. E. Rogers, of the local Defence Office, advises that books kindly donated by citizens have been duly forwarded to Trentham military camp. Queen Carnival Abandoned. Because of apparent lack of public interest in the project, the Feilding Centennial Celebrations Committee has decided to abandon the holding of a queen carnival as part of the centennial celebrations. New Soldiers Club. Because of its inability to conform with the membership rules and have 24 financial members, the Mosston subbranch of the Wanganui Returned Soldiers' Association has decided to break away and form a separate club. Successful Dance. The dance held in the Municipal Soc--1 ial hall last night in connection with the Christmas Fair was an outstanding success. Mr P. Ward was an efficient M.C. and the music was supplied by Barnes’s Rhythm Boys. Car and Lorry Collide. An accident occurred on the Tinui road last night when a car and a lorry were involved in a collision. It is understood that the vehicles were considerably damaged, but that nobody was injured. Military Enrolments. The latest enrolments in the Wairarapa for the Special Force are those of D. M. McKenzie (Featherston) and F. L. Sigvertsen (Eketahuna). The total enrolments to date have reached' the satisfactory total of 312. Women’s Police. The Wanganui Justices' Association has framed a remit for Die order paper at the centennial conference of the New Zealand Federation of Justices that, in view of the existing conditions, the Minister of-Justice be asked to expedite the appointment of women police. Wagons Derailed. Several wagons of a mixed train were derailed on the Tokanui branch line yesterday, an Invercargill message reports-. There was no damage to the permanent way and the wagons did not tip over. No one was injured and the passengers were brought to Invercargill by bus. Beer for Nurses. Red-capped nurses were among the customers when the wet canteen was opened at the Burnham Military Camp. Lusty cheers were given as the three nurses from the camp hospital were escorted to a table under an umbrella. Each carried a foaming tankard which was drunk in the company of the officers and men. Queue of Cars. The Masterton Railway Station yard was taxed to its capacity last night when some of the largest queues of ears seen for many years were waiting 'for the special train conveying a large party of pupils from the Wairarapa College. Some idea of the number of cars can be gauged from the fact that almost 300 pupils made the trip. Sunday School Anniversary. The fifty-ninth anniversary of the Kuripuni Methodist Sunday School will be held tomorrow, in the morning the scouts will parade at the church and a choir of 80 voices will be heart? in various items. The preacher will be Mr B. Roberts, M.P. At 2.45 o’clock there will be a musical festival at the church and the Whatman Home choir will be in attendance. Mr W. White, Deputy Mayor, will be in the chair, and a very happy service is anticipated. At the evening service, the Rev Fred Parker will be in charge. At all of the services the large children’s choir, specially trained by Mr W. Davies, will lead the praise service. Saw no Stock. “We went right across France and half-way across Switzerland without seeing any sign of stock,” stated Rotarian A. B. Hurst in an address to the Napier Rotary Club on his recent tour of some of the European countries. "There were green pastures but not a cow of any description.” continued the speaker, and this peculiarity had caused him to ask the reason. He had been told that all the stock was at. that time in the Alps. The Alps appeared to be the higher grasslands, and not the mountains as we in New Zealand understood them. In the Alps the grass was shorter and the stock was moved to these areas for grazing during the summer months. Public Enemy No. 1. At a recent meeting of the council of the South Island Acclimatisation Societies. the delegate from South Canterbury described the Public Works Department as "Public Enemy No. 1." It had. he said, destroyed all cover along the rivers and had also depleted certain streams of their natural water supply. The delegate, who sought to prove that Government control of acclimatisation matters was undesirable, denied the truth of the reported statement of the Minister of Internal Affairs (Mr W. E. Parry) that the sports of shooting and fishing were deteriorating and declared that sport was better in South Canterbury today titan tor 10 or- 12 years past. 1914 and Today. The outbreak’ of the lasi war. writes the Bishop of Chelmsford, was signalised by an angry belligerent spirit. Today there is a sad resignation to what appears to be the inevitable. .1 feel that Ibis is a real sign of grace in tile heart of the nation. Not a soul in ibis country wanted the war. Not a soul wished hurt to the Germans. Everyone desired friendship and peace I with every other nation. Every effort i was made to avert war and create peace, and today, instead of Die songs of defiance of 1911. we are chanting the "De profundis." The idea that Die Church is an institution which conies to our rescue with a speedy and simple remedy when a nation lias got itself into grave trouble is quite erroneous. The office of Die Church is Io teach people how to Jive together so that such troubles will never arise, and if through disobedience to that leaching misfortune and sorrow come, then Die Church is there, not to disclose a GJd remedy, but to proclaim that repentance is the only door to hope