LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Territorial Parade. There will be a parade of D Company, First Hawke’s Bay Regiment, in the Masterton Drill Hall tonight. W.E.A. Lecture. Another public lecture by Mr. A. S. Hely, tutor-organiser of the Victoria University College District of the Workers’ Educational Association will be held tonight at 8 o’clock, in the Municipal Buildings. All interested in international affairs should attend these lectures, which are open to the public. Questions will also be answered. Men For Camp. The list of men published in the ■ Times-Age” yesterday to enter Burnham Camp has been amended. The list is now as follows: —Sixth Field Ambulance, C. L. Baird, G. W. Wilson, R. P. Bryce, R. A. McPhail, and W. R. White. Second Divisional Cavalry, E. R. M. Wingate. Divisional Cavalry Reinforcements, J. G. Heasley. Medical Corps Reinforcements, C. R. Walker. Car Converted. A car owned by Mr Alfred Caselberg, of Masterton, was unlawfully converted from a parking area by the Methodist Church yesterday afternoon. Investigations by DetectiveSergeant W. Kane resulted in the vehicle being found last night down a bank just over a bridge past Kuhumingi station. Some difficulty is being experienced in bringing the vehicle back on to the road. Body Found In Car. The finding of a car with a rubber tube leading from the exhaust into the interior of the vehicle led to the discovery by a young Elsthorpe farmer of the body of a man inside. Though identification is not definitely confirmed, lhe driver's licence and other papers in his possession furnished evidence for the belief that it was the body of Heathcote Everard Farr, 49 Thompson Street, Wellington. He was a commercial traveller employed by Modem Lingerie, Ltd.

Cattle Cause Tragedy. “Because the Wanganui River is in flood and is very discoloured, it will be impossible to recover the bodies of the victims of the river tragedy for some days,” said Inspector J. A. Dempsey last night, when interviewed' about the capsize of the steamer Ohura on Monday, in which an engineer and two deck-hands are thought to have been drowned. He said the Ohura had negotiated one rapid and was on the second when a tethered cow broke loose and stampeded the rest of the cattle, which rushed to one side, capsizing the vessel in lhe middle of a raging torrent. One of the victims was last seen struggling in lhe midst of the maddened animals in the river. Blinded Servicemen.

After conducting an appeal throughout India on behalf of St. Dunstan’s Hostel for Blinded Sailors, Soldiers and Airmen, Sir Clutha Mackenzie returned to Auckland by the Maetsuycker. He has been absent about 10 months. Sir Clutha was spending a holiday in India when he received a cablegram from Sir lan Fraser, chairman of St. Dunstan's Hostel, saying that the British Government had delegated to St. Dunstan's a similar task : 0 that for which it was founded in the Great War, namely, hospital treatment, training and after-care of men losing their sight in the present war. The cablegram asked Sir Clutha to conduct an appeal throughout India on behalf of this new work, and to this he consented. Damages Awarded.

A jury in the Supreme Court at Palmerston North yesterday awarded Marjorie Weir Way, widow, Levin, £3025 4s 6d, the full amount claimed, as damages for the loss of her husband, who -was killed in a motor accident near Levin on July 17, 1939. A car in which her husband, Bertie Rupert Way, garage proprietor, Levin, was being driven by Joseph Henry John Hayfield, ran into the back of an unlighted lorry standing on the road a few miles out of Levin. The lorry was owned by Brian Leslie Everton, stock dealer, and at the time was in the charge of Thomas Gerard and Alexander Marchant, both of Levin, who were cited as defendants. B. R. Way, Ltd., garage proprietors. Levin, were joined as a third party, but the jury s verdict absolved them from any liability. The jury found that all the negligence was on defendant s side.

Old Groper Hook at Museum. A Maori groper hook, probably more than 16-9 years old, and with its dressed flax fibre lashings still intact, has been deposited at the Canterbury Museum by Mr. H. Howell, of Lincoln, for exhibition. It comprises a bent wooden shank with a bone barb set at an acute angle and was found in a cave at Okain’s Bay in the 1860’s. Hooks such as this are important to the museum because so far probably only about 1— Pennine hooks of a pre-European period are in New Zealand museums. The museum has one wooden-barbed groper hook in its collection, this one being found at Moa Bone Cave, Sumner. This museum also possesses one of the only seven barracouta hooks found intact in New Zealand—these being found by Mr. L. J. Vangioni. of Akaroa. A second of these hooks is at Dunedin, and a third at Nelson.