LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 March 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

L Exhibition Attendance. On Saturday the attendance at the Centennial Exhibition was 17,292, bringing the total up to 1.808,348, a daily average of 16,145. Interhouse Banner. Considerable attention was attracted at the Wairarapa Interhouse Association’s dance on Saturday night by the artistic green and white banner shown for the first time and bearing the association’s title. Fancy Dress Awards. In the list of prizes awarded at the children’s fancy dress Centennial parade on Saturday, first prize for a decorated pram was secured by Myra Allan, and the special prize for the decorated cycle section went to Mrs Briden. A Popular Attraction. A large number of visitors and citizens took the opportunity of the warm sunshine over the week-end, in the beautifi.il surroundings of the Masterton Park. There was a very large attendance yesterday, visitors commenting very favourably on the splendid display of flowers which are now at their best. Oyster Dispute Settled. The dispute between the Bluff oystermen and the merchants ended on Sat- | urday, when the parties came to an agreement, after a conference lasting all day. There was complete settlement, except for one outstanding matter, which will not be difficult to overcome. If the wether is favourable the oyster fleet will go to the beds in Foveaux Strait today. Military Enlistments. The following is the latest list of recruits for overseas service at the Masterton Defences Office: Messrs John Allan (C Qompany, First Hawke’s Bay Regiment) and B. D. Howard (Masterton); M. W. Jackson (Wangaehu); A. G. Moorcock (Carterton.); and T. N. Reed (Featherston). The total enlistments to date are 580. Returned Soldier Found Dead. Daniel Duggan, aged 47, a returned soldier, was found dead in a bath at his lodgings in Church Place, Wanganui, yesterday. It is understood that he was suffering from stomach trouble. He served with the Canterbury Regiment of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force and went to Wanganui several years ago. For the past seven years he had been employed as a gardener at the Sacred Heart Convent. St. John’s Hill. Half-baked Opinions. Some interesting evidence is available of revolt in the university colleges of the Dominion against permeation by Communist and other propaganda. For example, the “Critic.” official organ of student opinion at Otago University College, declares that it is not going to be used for the propagation of “the half-baked opinions of so-called intel- •' lectuals at the University" and sup- < ports a denunciation of these Russo- « philes published by “Cantee," the mag- ( | azine of the student body at Canter- 1 bury College. Stating that it is tired of 1 '•‘this perpetual jibber upon 'capitalists’ ' and ‘workers.’ “Cantee" adds: "We ■ are tired of these Russophiles who see 1 virtue in every country but their own, ' and gaze on Stalin’s cynical betrayal. ' both in his own country and abroad, I with such rapt admiralion. We are 1 tired, most of all. of this insistence that all those who do not believe in the c right ‘ism’ are either fools or knaves. 1 Wo arc tired of these magical words 1 that are going to clean up all the : world's problems. It docs not need any r ' mystic creed to make this a livable world.”

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