LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 December 1939, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Attendance at Exhibition. Saturday's attendance at the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington reached 23.328, bringing the total up to 430,839', a daily average of 15,387. Generous Donation. The Masterton Cycling Club has made a donation of £6 towards theOtaki Health Camp funds, per Mr SI Barber. Earthquake in Masterton. A few minutes before 7 o’clock yesterday morning a sharp earthquake was felt in Masterton, being preceded by a slight tremor, and lasting a few seconds. Labourer Drowned. When he fell in to the water near the Western Viaduct, Auckland, on Saturday afternoon, James Meikle. aged 34, single, a labourer who lived on the barge, Samoa, was drowned. Although a passer-by dived in and recovered his body, efforts at resuscitation were fruitless. Flag Day Appeal. Further receipts from the sale of flags in Masterton on Friday bring the total to £166 10s Id. the latest contributions being 13s, balance of Masterton street collection and £2 from Solway College. It is likely that this sum will be the total for the Masterton appeal. Dance at Kaituna. A most enoyable dance was held in the Kaituna Hall on Saturday night by the Kaituna-Fernridge Women’s Institute the proceeds being in aid of the Institute funds, Mr Alan Keir was an able M.C. and Barnes's Orchestra supplied the dance music much appreciated extras being played by Mrs Keir and Mr J. Peters. A ladies' committee attended to the supper arrangements. Alleged Favouritism.. The London Machine Branch of the National Society of Operative Printers adopted a resolution, a London cablegram reports, protesting against the Air Ministry's preferential treatment to the 8.8. C.. as instanced by the truncated narrative supplied to the Press of the New Zealand pilots’ flight over north-west Germany on November 30. also the facilities provided the 8.8. C. in permitting the pilot fully to broadcast details and incidents of the flight. It added that such undue preference was detrimental to Press prestige and the employment of printers. The resolution urged the immediate removal of this unfair discrimination. Art Union Profit. Allocations from the surplus profits of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions to various organisations in the Dominion doing philanthropic and kindred work were announced on Saturday by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry. The sum involved totals £12.325 and the organisations and institutions benefiting operate in their activities in different parts of the Dominion. The largest individual grants made are £lOOO each to the New Zealand Crippled Children Society and to the Order of St John for branches and subsidiary organisations for relief purposes. The other grants range from £3OO down £5O. Commenting on the work of the institutions to which grants had been made. Mr Parry said that a survey of the results of their activities showed I hey merited the financial support given by the Government from the surplus amounts gathered after the usual amounts from the profits of each art union had been paid over to the Mayoral. Relief Funds. "A splendid service is being rendered by many of the bodies to benefit from from the allocations,” added the Minister, "and the wide range of that community service lias much to commend it in lhe recognition Piven by the Government