LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Maori Battalion. The Maori Battalion will enter camp al Palmerston North on January 26. Territorial Parade.

There will be a parade of C Company, Hawke's Bay Regiment in the Masterton Drill Hall tonight, at 7.30, Dress will bo full webb equipment and puttees.

Heavy Seas at Castlepoint. Very heavy seas were experienced at Castlepoint over the week-end. A launch owned by Mr J. Duncan, a local fisherman, was swamped at its moorings and sank.

Clay Target Championship. J. McMillian, of Morrinsyille, won the New Zealand Centennial clay target championship at Auckland on Saturday. The total prize was £250, and there were twenty-six competitors. McMullan and D. P. North, of Whangarei. tied with 49 hits out of 50. McMullan winning the shoot-off.

Centennial Exhibition. Saturday's attendances at the Centennial Exhibition at Wellington were large, in view of the heavy rain that marred the evening. In all there were 25.338 visitors. 'This leaves only 22.569 to come before the millionth visitor enters. to be presented as a souvenir with a valuable cabinet radio set. The daily average attendance is 16.852.

Gun Club Meeting. Messrs C. E. Grey, R. .1. King. G. Breatherton. 11. J. Smith, D. McKenzie. James McKenzie and John McKenzie, of the Masterton Gun Club, will take part in the New Zealand Centennial Gun Chib's championship meeting, which will open at Lower Hutt tomorrow. Slips on Railway Line.

Through slips on the lino between Kaitoke and lhe Summit yesterday morning, rail services were delayed for about an hour and a half, and passengers had to be transhipped by buses Passengers on the railcar from Wellington to Woodville were taken by bus from Kaitoke to Featherston, where they met another railcar which took them on to Woodville. Those travelling on the railcar from Woodville were transhipped at Featherston and brought over the Rimntakas by bus to Wellington. Austrian Refugees Enlist. Forced to flee their country last year as a result of Nazi domination, tlire.Austrian refugees now living in Auckland have enlisted for service overseas with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. So far as they are aware they have complied with the army requirements and expect to begin training, shortly. Two of the recruits, Mr T. Spira. a freezing works employee at Westfield, and Mr Franz Loewil. an electric welder, are singly, while the third. Mr C. Selinger, a cabinetmaker, of Mount Eden, is married. Maori Battalion. The Maori Battalion is to go into camp at the Palmerston North Showgrounds on Friday. January 26. The officers and non-commissioned officers at present al the Army School of Instruction at Trantham will proceed to Palmerston North on January 24. The battalion is now designated as the 28th Maori Battalion. The quotas of the various Army areas are: Area No. 1 (Auckland). 25: No. 2 (Paeroa), 166; No. 3 (North Auckland). 206; No. 4 (Waikato), 35: No. 5 (Wellington). 10; No. 6 (Manawatu), 15: No. 7 (Napier). 165; No. 8 (Hawera), 6; No. 9 (Nelson). 2; No. 10 (Christchurch.), fl No. 11 (Otago), nil: No. 12 (Southland). Primatial Election.

The impending retirement of Archbishop Averill calls for separate elections to fill the otl'ices of Primate and Bishop of Auckland and the necessary arrangements for both are now being made. The primatial election is to be held at the triennial session of the General Synod, which will open in Nelson on February 15. hut the exact date lias not yet been fixed. Archbishop Averill will preside throughout (lie session' for lhe transaction of general business, mid in Un-, ordinary course his resignation will lake elleel on Hie final day. h is possible, however. that lie will be asked to retain office for a further period of a few weeks, in order to deal with routine matters arising out of the proceedings. Eucharistic Conference.

Further messages from distingiiished overseas churchmen have been received by Archbishop O'Shea, extending best wishes for the success of die National Eucharistic Congress, which will open in Wellington on February 1. Cardinal Ilinsliy. of Westminster. I .on don. li.is written: "I am glad tli.it both lhe Church mid the civil authoiilies are determined that tin 1 religion.', mid secular celebrations will take place to commemorate the centenary of New Zealand. It will be impossible loins to travel from England, and so I musl be resigned to (he sacrifice of visiting you as legate for the event, 'lhe Australian bishop:: ami clergy ami

many bishop", arid people from America will make your congress a great