LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 March 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Medical Board Liflih'i. The sixleenlli billing < ( f Ilii- lot’.'il examining i>■>->l l< | H , the IVlasteidi.ii In ill Hail i;,- : i niglii I here was a v<■ > 7 11 ig 11 all > 1 ><l a> d <,l physical Glim-:;:;, IB iin-u <.iil of l!) i.i'ing passed for uversi-a-; vi<-«-Theft of Explosive. A sequel Io Un- !<;> 11 ,;•■.* 1. > ./f >r,<sensation on I'Tbrum 7 1;; v/ii'-n plug of explosive was loiilal in IJ,<- non'machinery, was heard in it,.- ('mid,Court at Dunedin yealerda 7 7, boy aged 14 was charged I a plug of samsonite from Die mim magazine. He was placed midm Uncare of the Child Welfare ( Hili'.-/. Territorial Camp. Members of the local Terriiorial unii attending the annual camp of the Hawke’s Bay Regiment at Waiourii this week, will parade at the Masterton Drill Hall at 6.30 o'clock tomorrow morning, and will leave by the 7.10 train. Carterton men will parade at the Carterton P.O. at 6 a.m. to be taken to Masterton by a transport lorry. It is particularly requested that all men be on time. Child Badly Injured.

Knocked down by a motor-car at the corner of Karori Road and Tringham Avenue, Wellington, early yesterday afternoon, a seven-year-old child, Jeanette Hart, living in Richmond Avenue, Karori, received a fractured right thigh and right arm, abrasions to her face and legs, concussion and shock. The Free Ambulance took her to hospital. It was reported at a later hour that her condition was serious.

Interho’use Choir. Members of the public privileged to hear the Masterton Interhouse Girls' Choir at the Municipal Hall on .Wednesday comment very favourably on the magnificent rendering of the New Zealand National Anthem, which is being rehearsed for the grand massed drill display at the Centennial Exhibition on Easter Saturday. The choir has picked up its training with remarkable ease and its singing will be a pleasant surprise to.Masterton people when the choir is heard in public.

Centennial Procession. The sub-committee of the local Centennial procession committee has almost completed arrangements in connection with the procession. The assistance received by the committee has been most encouraging and it is expected to have a large number of interesting exhibits on display, which should hold the interest of old and young. Among the exhibits, loaned by the courtesy of Mr T. Cripps, Masterton, is an old plough used at Whareama in 1854.

Soldiers’ Magazine. The New Zealand forces in Egypt have produced the first number of their magazine, entitled “N.Z. Abroad,” writes the special “Daily Telegraph” correspondent with the Second A.I.F. It has 24 pages filled with wisecracks, so-called war news, and cartoons. The issue is devoted mostly to accounts of the voyage from New Zealand to Egypt. The editors are G. C. Hirsh, Adelaide, and J. Stratford, Wellington. The cartoonists are G. Gentil, Sydney, and F. Ritchie, Auckland. Licensed Drivers. “Of more than 2000 licensed drivers tested at the Transport Department's pavilion at the Centennial Exhibition. 3.8 per cent have never undergone a test for a licence,'’ said the Minister of Transport, the Hon. R. Semple, last evening. “Most of these are elderly persons who obtained their licences before testing was introduced. From the results of the tests at the Exhibition, it appears that many of these drivers would have considerable difficulty in passing a regulation test at present.”

Inquiry into Collision. A magisterial inquiry is to be held in Napier into the collision in Napier roadstead on, January 31 between the explosives vessel'Miro and the coastal vessel Koutunui. Both ships were extensively damaged, and both had to go on the Westshore slip for repairs. The Miro was carrying a cago of explosives at the time of the collision, and had arrived at Napier from Dunedin to discharge portion of her cargo before proceeding to northern ports. No date has been fixed for the inquiry, nor has any announcement been made regarding who will preside. Car's Wild Career. Though the car in which they were travelling somersaulted twice down a steep bank near Waimarama, Hawke's Bay, Mr and Mrs M. Levalient and their three children escaped serious injury. The car skidded in loose gravel and ran over a bank. Two of the children were thrown clear through doors which were burst open, and the third was flung through the shattered windscreen and landed on the far side of a fence. Apart from slight shock, shaking and bruises, all escaped injury. Mr and Mrs Levalient remained in the car in its career down the bank, where it landed on, its hood. The vehicle was badly damaged, the chassis and bodywork being twisted and broken. False Declaration. “You have been rather silly over this, but no harm has been done," said the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers), in the Supreme Court at Auckland to a young man, aged 26, in an Air Force uniform, who had admitted making a false declaration under the Marriage Act relating to the age of the young woman to whom he was married. His Honour said that the prisoner was of good character and the offence was not of the kind that should prevent him serving his country. The prisoner was ordered to be released on ■six months' probation and to pay the costs of the prosecution. 21s. The Judge ordered that the prisoner's name be not published. Destruction of Pests. A vigorous plea for the wholesale extermination of vermin, which are making inroads in the once large population of native and game birds of the Dominion, was made by the Minister of Internal Affairs, the Hon. W. E. Parry, yesterday. The stoat, ferret, polecat, weasel, hawk, hedgehog, and wild cat. in spite of the crusade against the vermin by Government departments and acclimatisation societies were maintaining their killing ways among the birds, he said. A country without its birds would be a country robbed of a great asset, and he urged the pursuing and killing of every specimen seen of the species he had mentioned, which were all a direct menace to birdlife of every kind in the Dominion. '