LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tar Sealing Work. During the fine weather the Masterton Borough Council has pushed on with its tar sealing programme. One side of Lincoln Road has received attention during the last day or two. Exhibition Traffic. From an early hour this morning thei;e was a steady stream of traffic passing through Masterton apparently bound for the Exhibition at Wellington. Road and rail bookings are reported to be very heavy. N.C.O.’s Called Up. Messrs D. E. Aitken, E. J. Wickens and N. B. Flaws, members of the local Territorial unit will proceed to Trantham by the afternoon mail train on Wednesday next to join the N.C.O. class for the Third Echelon. Late Mr Savage’s Will. On the application of the solicitor to the Public Trust Office the Supreme Court has granted probate of the will of.the late Prime Minister, Mr Savage, tc the Public Trustee, the executor named in the will. The Public Trust Office has not made public any details of the will. Red Cross Sewing Circle. The Red Cross Sewing Circle desires to acknowledge with thanks donations from the following:—Sixth form, Wairarapa College, Mrs Simpson. Wairarapa College, Mrs Pavitt, Mrs Gordon Lee, Mrs W. Wrigley, Mrs Wardell, Mrs Candy, Mrs Taylor, Mrs Norman James, Miss Variance, Mrs W. Andrew, per Miss Kummer, St Matthew’s School, Mrs Knowles, Mrs Brenkley, Mrs Lee. Students in Military Uniforms. For the first time in nearly a quarter of a century, at the Victoria University College capping ceremony, in the Wellington Town Hall last night, many graduates came to receive their degrees in military and Air Force uniforms instead of the traditional academic cap and gown. When they mounted the dais the uniformed students were clapped and cheered by their fellow-, undergraduates. - Fighting Services Appeal.

Attention is directed to an advertisement m this issue, calling a meeting of the Citizens' Committee for the Fighting Services Welfare Appeal, for Monday evening next, at the Y.M.C.A. at 8 o'clock. An invitation is also extended to all team captains, collectors and other campaign workers. The purpose of the meeting is to consider a final statement on the result of the recent appeal for funds. Vacuum Cleaner Wanted.

The Masterton Y.M.C.A. is in need of a vacuum cleaner, for use in connection with certain new floor coverings to be purchased in the. near future, and an appeal is made, in the hope that someone, who has a suitable machine now not required, may find it possible to make a gift of it to the association. Anyone able to assist in this way is asked to communicate with the General Secretary. Farmers Disappointed.

Disappointment at the display of the Department of Agriculture at the Centennial Exhibition was expressed bydelegates to the annual meeting of Wairarapa District Young Farmers Clubs in Masterton yesterday. Mr G. H. Perry said agriculture was the mainstay of the country yet its representation at the Centennial was dwarfed to insignificance by the display of the Public Works Department.

Fishermen Disappointed. The trout fishing season in the Ro* torua and Taupo district will close on May 15, and on the whole anglers have been very disappointed with their sport up to the present. There seems to be an abundance of feed everywhere, but the fish are very diflcult to catch. Those that have been caught in the main are in better condition than for years past, and this improvement should be maintained till the trout again overtake the food supplies. Auckland Housing Scheme.

Involving a purchase cost believed to be in the vicinity of £50.000, the Government has acquired for State housing purposes about 400 acres in the outer portions of West Tamaki. Reading will have to.be carried out and drainage, water supply, and other amenities provided before the housing scheme can be launched. It will then be next in importance to the Orakei scheme. About 1000 houses are visualised, with a possible population of more than 4000. Exhibition to Close Tonight.

Tonight the Centennial Exhibition, which in the last six months has been visited by more than 2,500,000 people from all parts of New Zealand, will close its cioors. Thousands of people visited the Exhibition yesterday, making the most of the warm autumn sunshine and the fine night, but record crowds are expected for closing day, when the previous best figure of 62,500 is expected to be surpassed. The attendance yesterday.was 28,865, bringing the total up to 2,562.279. The daily average is 16.785.

Delivery of Milk. Milk roundsmen in Auckland put in--10 effect yesterday a decision made at a union meeting on Thursday to start work not earlier than 2.30 a.m. and to make their deliveries at a smart walking pace, without running, as they claimed was often necessary in the past. The action, which was officially denied as a "go slow” move, has been taken as a protest against the alleged possibility of men' having to deliver greater quantities of milk and start half ah hour earlier each day under the proposed zoning scheme. In isolated cases milk deliveries suffered a- slight delay. ■ In the city and suburbs todayonly a limited number of customers always served near the end of some of the largest rounds were inconvenienced by the late arrival of their supplies. Allowances to Wives of Soldiers. "A wrong impression appears to exist in regard to the allowance for newly-married wives of soldiers.” said Captain H. P. Conyers-Brown, officer in charge of the Whangarei Army Office. "Men have approached me and stated that they' would be enlisting later, after they had been married foi six months. When asked for their leasons for this delay, they' have said that they understood that their wives would not receive an allowance unless they had been married for that period. This is entirely' incorrect. The allotment is paid immediately the man goes into camp, even it he may just have been married. The same conditions apply to a soldier marrying on final leave. His wife receives her allotment immediately.’’