LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 March 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Frost This Morning.

A frost of 3.5 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Yesterday’s southerly was responsible for a light sprinkling of snow on the Fararuas. Napier Harbour Swim. Swimming in water that was cold and rough, Miss Rona King, Napier, won the Napier harbour race of 2 1-6 miles for the Stewart Greer Cup. V. Osmond, Napier, established fastest time, 47.13 4-5, the next best time being that of A. Taylor, Havelock North. Fourteen swimmers entered, but the full number did not compete and only six of those who did take part completed the course.

Achilles Men to Visit Wellington. An announcement that in the near future the whole of the ship’s company of H.M.S. Achilles would visit Wellington was made by the Mayor, Mr T. C. A. Hislop, speaking at the recruiting rally in the Town Hall last night. This had been arranged, Mr Hislop said, through the co-operation of the Government, the city council and the Exhibition authorities, and he was sure that when they came they would receive the welcome they so richly deserved. Timaru Loan Requirements.

A most satisfactory position, reflecting creditably on the finances of the Timaru borough, exists as a result of the council completing negotiations for a waterworks renewal loan of £55,400. The council has accepted an offer to take up the whole amount at the due date, June 17, at 4 per cent, free of commission and exchange. This saves the council overlapping interest and brokerage and exchange and means that the loan is disposed of at a quarter per cent less than authorised. The balance of the water supply 10 per cent additional loan has also been allocated among applicants at 4 per cent, and the council has now filled all loan requirements. Bullock Wagon Driver.

Clad in working shirt, trousers girdled with string, heavy boots and an old battered hat, the Rt Hon J. G. Coates, M.P. for Kaipara, was the driver of an old four-wheeled bullock wagon which led the grand parade in the Ktimeu show on Saturday. Thousands of people were present and they gave the driver of the bullock team a rousing reception. The old wagon drawn by six bullocks and driven by Mr Coates, was the original which used to go between Kaukapakapa and Riverhead a great many years ago. Bystanders noted Mr Coates’ skill as a driver, and.his neat cracking of the whip as he drove the team twice round the ring.

Territorial Camp. Members of the Hawke’s Bay Regiment who were in camp at Waiouru last week thoroughly enjoyed thenexperience, strenuous as it was. The Hastings units were the only ones to enter camp up to full strength. Reports from the camp show that the regiment distinguished itself in many respects. Colonel Farr, camp commander, paid a tribute to the cleanliness and orderliness of the regiment when he said the Hawke’s Bay Regiment was the cleanest and most efficient in its domestic arrangements that had passed through the camp. Lieu-tenant-Colonel R. A. Row, officer commanding the Central District, also complimented the men on their efficiency on parade.

Hoarding of Petrol. A fine of £25 was inflicted on a Palmerston North man yesterday, who pleaded guilty through his solicitor to a charge that he kept 586 gallons of benzine in premises contrary to the provisions of section four of the Explosives and Dangerous Goods Amendment Act. In addition, the benzine, which was stated to be worth £7B, was ordered to be confiscated. Defendant was James Larsen, 7 Carow Street. An assurance that the bulk of the petrol was bought before the restrictions originally came into force was given by Mr G. E. Rowe, who appeared for defendant. Defendant operated over an area between Gisborne. Taumarunui, and Wellington, using a car and a truck.

Collectors’ Rough Spin. "Our collectors have been getting a rough spin from some of the city business men,” said Mr J. L. Hay yesterday at a luncheon of the Christchurch Business Men’s Club. Mr Hay appealed for support for the national appeal for funds for the work of the Salvation Army and Young Men’s Christian Association among the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Mr Hay mentioned that some city men had refused to see collectors and that others had put them off with a “miserable” donation of five shillings. That, lie said, was a disgrace to the city. If young men were willing to go overseas and sacrifice their lives for their country, surely wealthy business men could spare more to provide a few comforts. Accident Victim. A motorist whose attention was atatracted by fallen telegraph wires on lhe main highway near Paekakariki last night discovered a man unconscious at the wheel of a car which had gone over a bank after striking a telegraph pole. The victim of the accident was Mr R. Johnston, labourer, High Street, Lower Hutt. He received head injuries and concussion, and was taken to the Wellington Public Hospital by the Free Ambulance. The accident occurred at the level crossing about a mile and a half north »1‘ Paekakariki at 7 p.m. Mr Johnston's car could not be seen by passing motorists, and it was not till about 9 p.m. that he was discovered. His condition was reported late last night 10 be satisfactory. Protective Inoculation. Yesterday the inoculation of 1700 men in the Trentham Camp against tetanus was completed. Two days sufficed to put through this number —Friday and yesterday. The inoculation will give the men "active" immunity against lockjaw, tlie danger of which is greatest when wounds are inflicted in an agricultural country. In the Great War “anti-tet” was the routine inoculation when a man was wounded. This gave him a passive kind of protection against, the infection. The injections are made in an arm. The serum is obtained from Hie blood of a horse which lias been prepared to render this important service to mankind. Certain reactions can be expected in about three cases of 1000 treated, and the men inoculated were required to rest for a period afterward. The inoculation is only precautionary. In wound cases on active service there will be the usual injection of the passive agent against tetanu-J