LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sudden Death in Theatre. Mrs Euphemia Wintrupe McNulty, aged 78, collapse 1 and died shortly after the beginning of the programme in a Dunedin theatre last night. Search for Oil. The New Zealand Petroleum Company reports that the Morere No. 1 oil bore has reached a depth of 3312 feet. It is anticipated that drilling will commence at the Midhirst (Taranaki) location next week. Red Cross Society. The country districts cub-centre of the Red Cross Society desire to acknowledge with thanks donations or gifts of clothing from the following:— Lower Hutt Patriotic Association, Opaki Women’s Institute and Miss P. Morrison. Interhouse Girls’ Choir. The entertainment to be given by the girls of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association in Masterton next month will take place on July 9, not July 2 as was stated inadvertently in Wednesday’s issue. The occasion will be a notable one by reason of the fact that it will be’the first public appearance of the Girls’ Interhouse Choir. Sick and Wounded Fund.

The Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund Appeal has reached £207,473, the district contributions being as follows: Wellington £48,817, Christchurch £48,000, Auckland £35,500, Dunedin £27,000, Hawke’s Bay £17,100, Taranaki £ll,OOO, Palmerston North £10,156, Gisbortie £3,000, Blenheim £2,100, West Coast £BOO, miscellaneous £4,000.

Officer Reprimanded. The sentence of the general courtmartial held at the Papakura Camp on Tuesday on Captain E. C. N. Robinson was confirmed today. It was that he be reprimanded. Robinson pleaded guilty to a charge of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline, in that he proceeded overseas in one of His Majesty’s transports when cognisant that he had been found medically unfit to go and that a memorandum to the effect that he would be discharged had been issued to the camp commandant and his commanding officer. Recruiting Figures.

The latest recruiting figures for New Zealand, which are those for last week, show that 40,804 men have enlisted, of whom 22,918 have been posted to camp and 2971 await medical examination. Of those already medically examined, 27,916 were classed fit, 5757 permanently unfit, and 1868 were in reserved occupations. The enlistments from the three military areas, Central (Wellington, Wairarapa, Hawke’s Bay, Wanganui, Manawatu, Poverty Bay), Northern (Auckland, the Waikato and other parts of the northern part of the North Island), and Southern (South Island) are within a few hundreds of each other.

A Record Flight. A record Tasman flight of 7 hours 32 minutes was made yesterday by the flying-boat Awarua when travelling from Sydney to Auckland in the Tasman Empire Airways commercial service. She was commanded by Captain Craig. The time was that taken from point to point from when the Awarua was in the air over the Rose Bay base, Sydney, till she was over Auckland. The previous record flight was made by the Aotearoa on her delivery flight under Captain Burgess on August 28 last year, but the time of 7 hours 48 minutes recorded on that occasion was from the actual taking-off at Sydney to the landing on the Waitemata, no point to point time being taken. The “take-off to touch-down” time of the Awarua was 7 hours 37 minutes.