Maori Co-operation.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 February 1940, Page 4

Maori Co-operation.

At the meeting held in Masterton last night, Mrs K. Te Tau on behalf of the local Maoris offered their full support and co-operation in the proposed local Centennial celebrations. The offer was accepted with thanks. Treaty of Waitangi.

Flags are flying over the Masterton Post Office and other local buildings today in commemoration of the onehundredth anniversary of the affixing of the first signatures to the Treaty of Waitangi.

Military Enlistments.

The total military enlistments in the Wairarapa recruiting area to date have now reached 515. The following is the latest list of recruits:—Messrs G. Booth, N. F. Hawtin. F. O’Reilly (Martinborough): R. M. Holden, F. J. G. Deller (Masterton): H. R. Carter, J. I. Sigvertsen (Eketahuna); and A. R. Fuge (Featherston).

Wairarapa College Pipe Band.

Eulogistic reference was made by the deputy-mayor of Masterton, Mr. W. White, at the local Centennial celebrations meeting last night to the splendid success achieved by the Wairarapa College Pipe Band at the recent New Zealand Pipe Band meeting. Mr White's remarks were greeted with applause.

Schools Resume This Morning

Secondary and primary schools resumed activities this morning, when good attendances were recorded. At the Wairarapa College the following are new members of the teaching staff: Miss J. M. Irvine, Dip. H.Sc., formerly of the King Edward Technical College, Dunedin; Mr H. N. Bibby B.Ag., of the Hastings Boys’ High School; and Mr J. K. Brown. M.A., B.Sc.. formerly of the Napier Boys’ High School.

Milk for Babies. Pleasure that the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council had been able to assist the Plunkot Society in the last year in the preparation and supply ol milk for babies was expressed by the chairman of the council. Mr I. J. Goldstine A free testing scheme, he said, had been instituted by the council to make sure that the milk supplied for this purpose complied with the society's requirements, and the society was taking advantage of the scheme. His First Egg. For the first time in his life, a nine-year-old Christchurch boy ate a hen’s egg while at a health camp at Rangiora Hiis season. Officials of the camp who at first were amazed al the boy’s bewilderment when he was given the egg, had to show him how to set about eating it. U is not uncommon for children attending the camps to have their first meals of some vegetables there; but it was said at the camp yesterday that this was (lie fits! time on record that a child had been given his first egg. Substitutes for Cornflour. The disappearance of cornflour from most grocery stores has led people to resorGto several substitutes, according to retailers. The most popular of these appears to be ground rice, many housewives discovering it can be pul to many of the uses in cooking ol cornflour. The difficulty in obtaining cornflour is described as due to the prohibition on export imposed by Britain, and in the fact dial the smalt quantities, that it has been possible to obtain under the import control scheme from Australia and Canada are mostly beins used by manufacturers.