LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 April 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Bankruptcies. No bankruptcies have been recorded in Wairarapa so far this year. Centennial Exhibition. The attendance at the Centennial Exhibition in Wellington yesterday was 8702. The grand total has now reached 2,063,746. with a daily average of 16,643. Sheep Judging Contest. Ninety-two pounds was the correct weight in the sheep-judging contest conducted by the Tinui Collie Club at its recent meeting. Messrs H. C. Bennett and R. Garland tied for first place with 92Jlbs. National Party Caucus. A caucus of Parliamentary members of the National Party will be held tomorrow. The Leader of the Opposition, Mr Hamilton, said last evening, that the notices to attend the caucus had been sent out about a fortnight ago. Rugby Team Joins Up. The leading team in the Whangarei senior B Rugby competition last season, Whangaruru, has all its 15 players in the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, the majority being with the Maori Battalion. Some are now overseas with the first echelon! and others are in camp with the second echelon. Minister Sent to Gaol. A sentence of three months’ imprisonment with hard labour was imposed on Ormond Edward Burton, minister of religion, aged 47, when he appeared before Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, on a charge of wilfully obstructing a police officer at a pacifist meeting on Friday night. After sentence had been imposed Burton said he wished to appeal, and security was fixed accordingly. Drunken Motorist Sent to Gaol.

John Moriarty, labourer, aged 36, was sentenced to seven days’ imprisonment with hard labour when he appeared before Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, on a charge of having been intoxicated in charge of a ‘motor-car in Bunny Street. Moriarty’s licence was cancelled for 12 months. He pleaded guilty. Sub-Inspector E. T, C. Turner said that defendant, while under the influence of liquor, was involved in a collision with an Eastbourne bus. Trade With Queensland.

Satisfaction with the progress of the discussions relating to trade which he opened with the New Zealand Government was expressed by Mr W. Forgan Smith, Premier of Queensland, before he departure for Canada, an Auckland message states. He hopes to resume the negotiations by spending about a week ih New Zealand on his return voyage to Australia. ’“I can make no announcement at the present stage except to say that I have met various Ministers and had certain discussions with them,” Mr Forgan Smith said. “I am quite satisfied with the progress that has been made.”

Soldiers Adopted. Two young soldiers, members of the Second Echelon, who have no relations in New Zealand, made a fortunate decision when they chose to spend their recent leave in Invercargill. They frequented the R.S.A. clubrooms, where it became known that they were without relations in the Dominion, and two prominent Invercargill women immediately “adopted” them. Now the men will receive parcels and letters from “home" and will know that someone is taking an interest in their welfare.

Spielers Sentenced. “This is the old story of two spielers getting hold of young men from the country and fleecing them by means of a specious confidence trick,” said De-tective-Sergeant Walsh in the Auckland S.M. Court, when James Leonard Thurlow, a truck driver, aged 24, and Alexander Wallace Copley, salesman, aged 41, were jointly charged with stealing on March 23 the sum of £l2, the property of William Dudley Hennessy. Thurlow was further charged with stealing £3,'the property of Leslie Sewell. Both pleaded guilty. The police said that a young, man about to be married and his best man were induced to put money on “a good thing.” The magistrate, Mr J. Morling, said the accused were a pair- of expert spielers. The only way to treat them was to punish them every time they committed a crime. He sentenced each to five months’ imprisonment. Loans and Donations. Additional interest-free loans and donations to the war expenses fund were acknowledged yesterday by the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash. Some of the amounts were paid into the Post Office or to the Treasury direct. The total sum received is now £1,461,860. The list includes the following:—Pine, Gould, Guinness, Ltd., Christchurch, duration of war and six months, £lO,000. The Mosgiel Woollen Factory Co., Ltd., duration and six months, £5OOO. The Farmers' Co-operative Organisation Society of N.Z.. Ltd., Hawera, duration and 12 months. £2OOO. Wairarapa Concrete, Ltd., Masterton, duration and six months, £250. Miss J. E. Cooper, Masterton, duration and six months. £lOO. Mr H. F. Deverill, Masterton, duration, £lOO. Mr Frank Brazendale Matarawa. Carterton, duration and 12 months. £lOO. Mr C. T. Richardson. Masterton. duration and six months. £lOOO. Wairarapa Interhouse Association. Masterton, duration and six months, £5O.

Cardboard Prices Fixed. Prices to be charged by Whakatane Paper Mills, Ltd. for its cardboard products. the subject of a public inquiry held in Wellington recently by the Price Investigation Tribunal, have now been fixed by the tribunal. In a reserved decision the tribunal stated that it deeply regretted have to come to a decision which might have the effect that the company, as at present constituted, could not obtain the necessary financial assistance to .enable it to continue in production. Prices representing an average increase of from £1 10s to £2 a ton over the December prices appioved by the tribunal have been awarded the company. The prices arc for the March-April cycle, and are those worked out by the accountants on the basis of the interim decisions given by the tribunal early in March. The tribunal refused to approve of an additional £1 a ton general increase and special additions for certain boards asked for by the company over and above the pi ices worked out on the tribunal's interim findings, and which, after the interim decisions, were submitted as the minimum prices at which the company felt it would be able to carry on business.