Life-Saving Tests.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 February 1940, Page 4

Life-Saving Tests.

In the recent life-saving tests carried out at the Ladies' Baths, Maisie Pauling passed for both the intermediate and bronze awards.

Territorial Camp. The local advance party of the Hawke's Bay Regiment to attend the annual camp of instruction at Waiouru will leave Masterton by the 7.10 o’clock train tomorrow morning. British Israel Society.

There was. a large and interested audience in the Masterton Opera House last night, when Major Barrows delivered a very fine address, under the auspices of the British Israel Society, on the marks of Israel, .the Bible, the Flag, the Sword and the Soldier.

Import Control Policy. When one considered the enormous dislocation to trade, the restrictions placed on business, the extra time and cost involved, and the trouble to which all industrial and commercial concerns had been put as the result of the imposition of import control, it was extremely doubtful if the results to date had been worth while, said the president of the New Zealand Society of Accountants, Mr W. R. Brown, at the opening of the annual convention of the society in Wellington yesterday. Government co-operation with the banks, as on other occasions, to ration exchange and so check the drift, would have been just as effective. Mr Brown said, and could have operated without the harassing complications and anxiety to which business had been subject during the last twelve months.

Bullock Power. Bullock power of 1840 was tested against the transport facilities of 1940 when floats drawn by lorries became bogged in the rain-soaked surface of McLean Park. Napier, during the progress of the Napier centennial procession and display. When the lorries became bogged it was decided to enlist the services of a bullock team which was in the charge of Mr Kingston, Waipawa. and which was participating in the procession under the command of a team driver. "Old Sam." The bullocks strained at their yokes for a moment, and away came the lorries and floats as if they were toys. The bullock team also proved its usefulness when il was used to remove the carcase of a horse which had dropped dead on the park during the procession.