LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 June 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Masterton Frost. A frost of 8.3 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Patriotic Effort.

Children leading a donkey through Queen Street this morning received generous response to their appeal to the public to take tickets in the raffle of the animal in aid of the Red Cross and St John Ambulance joint appeal. Miners’ Action Commended.

Appreciation of the coal miners’ decision to work on Monday next was expressed yesterday by the Minister of Mines, Mr Webb. The Minister said the miners’ action was determined several days before the Government issued the proclamation postponing the King’s birthday holiday. Te Wharau Rainfall.

Mr F. Cotter reports that 880 points of rain fell at Te Wharau last month. There were 22 days with rain. In May last year 967 points of rain were registered. A total of 2,058 points of rain has fallen in the 5 months of this year.

Sick and Wounded Fund. The Sick and Wounded Fund reached £145,500 last night, district contributions being as follows: —Wellington, £38,700; Auckland, £28,000; Canterbury, £27,000; Dunedin, £19,500; Hawke’s Bay, £13,000; Palmerston North, £8,000; Taranaki, £7,500; Marlborough, £1,100; West Coast, £1,500; Gisborne, £1,200.

Navy League Cake. Considerable interest is being taken in a beautifully-iced cake donated by Mrs H. Reid (nee Miss Gladys Butcher) and which is on display in a W.F.C.A. window in Queen Street. The cake is being raffled by the Navy League in aid of Patriotic Funds. A charge of Is per ticket is being made. Head-in Parking.

As the result of a test held on Lambton Quay, Wellington, it is proposed to recommend to the Wellington city council at its next meeting that the head-in system of car parking be adopted instead of tail-in as at present. The head-in system nas been tried out during the last two weeks between Kelburn Avenue and Woodward Street, and tail-in between Woodward Street and Bowen Street. It was found that the head-in system was the better, both for the drivers and public. Five Shillings for a Poster.

A poster bearing the words, “Manufactured in Great Britain for New Zealand. This order came from New Zealand. Buy New Zealand Goods,” was shown to members of the North Canterbury Electric Power Board at Rangiora and earned 5s for the patriotic funds. The poster, which was favourably commented upon by members, was attached to goods recently received by the board from England. A member, Mr A. M. Carpenter, was so taken with this indication of the work of the Empire Marketing Board that he bought the poster for ss.

Fashion in Soldiers’ Hair. A small but very noticeable difference between the New Zealand soldier of the present day and the New Zealand soldier of the Great War is his hair. Now soldiers wear their hair as they please, but 25 years ago they had to have it cut short, a machine being run all over the head. Many of them liked to increase their sinister appearance by having an extra close swath cut over the head in the line of the nose and the backbone, or they had a broad arrow or their number cut in their bristly head. Sometimes they got barbers to leave a miniature pigtail, or two tufts like horns above the eyes. The Final Stage.

At the weekend the last of the stallholders and exhibitors will leave the Centennial Exhibition. While by the terms of their contracts they do not have to be out till Tuesday next, most will have completed the removal of their effects Dy the weekend. Interviewed yesterday, Colonel H. E. Avery, assistant manager and secretary of the Exhibition Company, said he believed the last exhibitors would have finished their moving out, as stipulated by June 4, a month after the close of the Exhibition. Everything was proceeding smoothly. Asked if there were any further developments in the negotiations between the Exhibition Company and the Government, Colonel Avery said there was nothing to reoprt. Badge For Volunteers.

Regulations were gazetted yesterday authorising the issue of special enlistment badges to persons volunteering for service in the armed forces. The Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, stated last evening that the design of the badge, which would be a Crown copyright, consisted of a V, symbolic of the fact that the man . had volunteered, through which a fern leaf was woven and on top of which a crown was surmounted. The badge would be worn in the lapel of the coat and would indicate that the man who wore it had offered himself for service in the armed forces. He was sure that the badge would be welcomed by volunteers and the public alike, and would be recognised as an earnest of the fact that the man wearing it had offered himself in the service of his country.