LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 April 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

War Loans and Donations. Further contributions of interestfree loans and donations for war purposes have been received by the Government. bringing the total to £ 688. Included in tin.’ loans received yesterday was one ol £ 150 from Bernard William Wills, of Pahiatua. for the duration of lhe war. Autumn Tints. Autumn tints are enhancing the beauty of many Masterton streets at the present time. At The Terrace. Lansdowne, the scarlet oaks are now a blaze of colour, and in Pownall Street the mountain ash and liquid amber trees are likewise at the height of their beauty. Even the lime trees in Cole Street add a gaudy tint to the flanks of the road. Food for Stock. The Mid-Canterbury executive of the Farmers’ Union discussing yesterday a proposal by Mr Burnett, M.P., for importation of Australian oats for stock feed resolved to ask the Government to make a survey of stocks of feed in the Dominion before allowing importation and grant concesIsions on railage of stock to areas where feed is available or of feed to districts where there is a scarcity. Centennial Exhibition. The Exhibition authorities have decided to avail themselves of the permission granted by the Wellington City Council to open the Exhibition on Anzac Day. It has been decided that the Exhibition will be open from 3.30 p.m. till the ordinary closing time. This includes all sections of the courts and Playland. The attendance yesterday was 12.013, making the total 2,276.494, a daily average of 16.159. Musical Examinations. The following pupils of St. Bride’s Convent, Mastertori, were successful in the Theory of Music examination held by the Trinity College of Music, London, last December, the results of which have just come to hand: Licentiate Diploma and Rudiments and Art of Teaching Kathleen Bergin. Advanced Intermediate. Edith Barcham (86 points, honours), Grace Burch (85 points, honours).

Body of Fisherman Found. An extensive search by the police of beaches near the spot where two fishermen, Thomas Edward Tunnage and Robert Dow Tunnage, were drowned when a launch capsized on the bar at Taieri Mouth on Wednesday resulted in the body of one of the men being found yesterday on Taieri Island at the mouth of the river. The body was that of Robert Dow Tunnage. The launch was washed on to the beach and the fishermen of the district, in spite of trying conditions, succeeded in removing the Diesel engine valued at £4OO from the wrecked craft. Whale Skeleton for Museum.

The 18-foot long skeleton of one of the four Tasmanian blackfish, or “false killer whales,” stranded between North Beach and Leithfield Beach, has now been separated from the carcase and brought to the Canterbury Museum for mounting. Mr R. S. Duff (ethnologist) and Mr P. J. O’Brien (taxidermist) spent two days in removing the skeleton of one of the whales at Leithfield Beach. It will be the first Tasmanian blackfish skeleton to be possessed by the museum. and with it. will be included a scale model of the whale.

Food- Rationing in Dominion. A recommendation that the Dominion executive of the New Zealand Returned Soldiers’ Association consider whether it would be worth while recommending the Government to introduce a reasonable scheme of foodrationing in New Zealand, as a possible quick means of alleviating the food problem in Great Britain occasioned by the cutting off of supplies of butter, cheese, eggs and bacon from the Scandinavian States, is to be made by the Woodville branch of the association. The mover said New Zealanders wore not experiencing anything like the hardships or mental strain that were the lot of the people of the Old Country, and he thought a rationing scheme would meet with approval.

Hangars at Harewood. "We certainly haven't got hangars anything like those on our lines in the States.” said Mr E. H. Forrest, local traffic manager of United Air Lines of America, when he was asked what he thought of the new municipal airport at Harewood. which was used as a civil airport for the first time recently. Mr Forrest has an office in Sydney, where he has been for three months as representative of United Air Lines, and this is the first of his visits to New Zealand, which he will make three times a year. He was very much impressed with the administration buildings at Harewood, which he says, prove that New Zealand has shown a great interest in aviation. The hangars which he saw at Harewood seemed enormous to Mr Forrest, and he said that they were much bigger than any used by United Air Lines.

Museum's Part in Centennial. Letters of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and John Robert Godley having considerable historical importance are housed at the Canterbury Museum. Recently they were sent to Wellington,, where they were copied out by the Internal Affairs Department, and they have now been returned to Christchurch. These letters are among several of the older exhibits at the museum which have recently figured in the celebration of the New Zealand centennial, The museum's portrait of Edward Gibbon Wakefield and his clogs, by E. J. Collins and Richard Ansdell, is at the moment hanging in the National Gallery in Wellington as part of a special exhibition of portraits associated with New Zealand history. Natural history exhibits from the museum are still in use at the Canterbury Court at the Centennial Exhibition, and 23 pieces of English porcelain have been sent for display at the Dominion Museum. The centennial procession in Christchurch included a whaleboat, ;i reaper, and other material from the museum.