LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 May 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Band Parade Cancelled. As the public meeting convened by the Wairarapa R.S.A. for tonight has been cancelled, there will be no parade of the Municipal Band tonight. Alfredton School Committee.

The following have been elected a committee in connection with the Alfredton School: Messrs C. H. Hartley, chairman; O. Walker, secretary; H. Burch, J. Perry, J..McKay. Adjourned Inquests.

The adjourned inquests into the deaths of Brian Patrick Brennan and Lyle Leslie Barber, victims of a motor accident at Homebush, will be held at the Masterton Magistrate’s Court at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning, before the District Coroner, Mr E. G. Eton.

Heavy Enlistments at Napier. Two medical boards will sit in Napier this week to examine recruits who have signed up with the forces recently. It was stated yesterday that recruiting had been heavy during the past fe.w days, and on three days more than 40 enlistments were received. Badminton Team.

The following will represent St Matthew’s Badminton Club in a return match against the Red Star Club, at the latter’s court on Wednesday: Messrs Ninnes, Carle, Cameron, Marchbanks, Forrest, Peters; Mrs Ninnes, Misses Richards, Russell, Yates, Baird, Boyd.

Enlistments for Military Service. There have been 12,942 registrations in the Central Military District for overseas service since recruiting began on September 12, 1939. Of these 7273 are already in camp. Wellington and the Hutt Valley have contributed 5616 of the total registrations and Napier, Hastings, Poverty Bay and Wairarapa 3398, of which 2194 were passed as fit. Infectious Diseases. For the week ended yesterday, 11 cases of infectious disease and six deaths—five from pulmonary tuberculosis and one from puerperal fever — were reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department from the central Wellington district. The cases reported were: Pulmonary tuberculosis (4), pneumonic influenza (2), scarlet fever (2), erysipelas (1), puerperal fever (1), and eclampsia (1). Sick and Wounded Fund.

The Sick, Wounded and Distress Appeal for £250,000 passed the first £lOO,OOO last night, with a total of £102,400 contributed id a fortnight. The latest district returns are as follows: Wellington, £23,000; Auckland, £20,000; Canterbury, £20,500; Dunedin, £13,000; Gisborne, £500; Hawke’s Bay, £8750; Taranaki, £4000; Blenheim, £700; West Coast, £800; Palmerston North, £8000; Wanganui city, £3200.

Soldier Forgotten in Hospital. One Christchurch recruit for the Third Echelon found himself in a curious position when, on a suspicion of having goitre, he was sent to the Christchurch Public Hospital by the medical board for a couple of days’ observation. Forgotten, apparently, by the board, he was there for a week, before the joint appeals of himself and his employers obtained his release, the nurse in charge having taken away his clothes, to prevent his unauthorised departure. The hospital, to all the employers’ inquiries, used to. reply suavely: “The patient passed a comfortable night, and his condition is satisfactory.”

To Go Into Camp at Tauherenikau. Further details affecting the Territorial training scheme in the Central Military District were given yesterday by the officer commanding the district, Colonel R. A. Row, who said that on Saturday 170 officers, N.C.O.’s from above the rank of sergeant, and two corporals from each platoon o’f the Ist Battalion, the Wellington Regiment, would go into camp at Tauherenikau for a month preparatory to the calling up of the other ranks on July 1 for training in Wellington. When the whole battalion was called up there would be more than 600 in training. On August 1 the officers and n.c.o.’s of the Hawke’s Bay Regiment and Wellington-West Coast Regiment, the Second Field Company and the Central Depot, N.Z. Corps of Signals would go into training at Tauherenikau for two months, and those of the Taranaki Regiment, Army Service Corps and Field Ambulance on November 1 for a like period.

Seven Sons in Military Forces. All seven sons with the fighting services and one daughter working at base records —this is the proud record of the family of Mr and Mrs A. O. Standen, Wellington, and probably constitutes a record for any family in the Dominion. Mr Standen is senior passenger foreman, New Zealand Railways, Wellington, and with Mrs Standen has lived practically all his life in Wellington. There are It children — seven sons and four daughters. Of the seven sons three are married, one having two children and another one child. The oldest son, Edward (married, with two children) left with the first acheion. Two more, Ivan and Aubrey, left with the second echelon. ' Two more, Colin (married, with one child) and Stanley (married) are in the third echelon, Stanley being with the Railway Battalion. Another, Hector, has ■enlisted, and the youngest, George, has served with the Permanent Artillery in New Zealand since the outbreak of war.

Too High a Price Charged for Tea.

The first informations under the Price Stabilisation Emergency Regulations were heard in the Palmerston North Magistrates’ Court yesterday, when two charges alleging breaches were preferred against Harry Jackson, grocer. He pleaded guilty and was fined £1 with costs on one information, and was convicted and discharged on the other. It was stated that Jackson sold two half-pound packets of tea at a price higher than permitted and without the authority of the Minister of Industries and Commerce or the Price Tribunal. The prosecuting solicitor said that a customer was charged Is lid instead of Is 6d. No permission had been granted for an increase in the price, which however, came some days later. The customer, after inquiries, sought a refund from Jackson, who refused. The Inspector of Labour visited the shop, and, in the meantime, the price of tea had been increased by authority to 3s 6d a pound, but the inspector was charged Is lid for half a pound. When he explained his identity Jackson returned twopence.