LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Glenwood Hospital. Glenwood Private Hospital. Cole Street, Masterton, will be taken over on July 1 by Misses J. and D. Allan from Misses F. Siddells and E. Pearson.

Why Britain Wants Bacon. Many people are wondering why Britain wants such a large quantity of bacon. The reason is that it is the only meat which can be kept without the provision of special storage facilities. Public Prayer Meeting.

Tomorrow in the Opera House, from 12.30 p.m. till 1.30 p.m„ a public prayer meeting will be held under the auspices of the local Ministers’ Association. Thoughtless Parking.

A practice prevalent among Hawke’s Bay motorists is that of parking cars so that the front or rear bumpers protrude over the footpath, constituting a source of inconvenience to pedestrians. At a meeting of the executive of the Automobile Association (Hawke’s Bay) it was recalled that a motorist in Wellington had been prosecuted for this offence, which'had resulted in a pedestrian falling and being injured. R.S.A. and Politics.

Returned Soldiers’ Associations throughout the Dominion have been asked by the Dominion executive not to take part as associations in the controversy over the question whether a National Cabinet or Coalition Government should be formed. The committee expressed the view that the question has been in the forefront of party political strife and that the association, not being a political body in any sense, should not enter the argument.

Found Dying on Road. A young Maori man was found lying on the road near Te Kauwhata in a critical condition about 11 o’clock on Saturday night. The victim, who died soon after being discovered, was Kopu Puru, single, aged 24, who resided with his parents at Okaeria, a Native settlement near Te Kauwhata. An inquest was opened before the district coroner, Mr C. K. Lawrie, and adjourned after evidence of identification had been taken. The coroner ordered a post mortem examination. Misuse of Petrol Licence.

In the Palmerston North Magistrate’s Court yesterday R. E. F. Miles and R. J. Miles faced three counts of having purchased oil fuel under a consumer’s licence, and used it otherwise than for the purpose set out in the application. Detective-Sergeant A. B. Meiklejohn said defendants were fruit-vendors, and owned a lorry used for transporting fruit from Hastings. They had a petrol licence of 150 gallons a month. It was alleged that they used petrol for the lorry in their private motorcars. Defendants were each fined £lO on one of the charges, and convicted and discharged on the other counts. ( Trans-Pacific Air Service.

The trans-Paciflc air service between the United States and New Zealand will be resumed next month, according to advice received by the PostmasterGeneral, Mr Webb, from the United States Post Office Department in Washington. Mr Webb said yesterday that the first flight was scheduled to begin from San Francisco on July 12, and to end at Auckland on July 17. The flying-boat would leave Auckland on July 20, returning to San Francisco on July 24. The Minister said he understood that the service would be on a fortnightly basis, the intermediate stops being Noumea, Canton Island, and Honolulu. Subversive Reports.

Harold William Klein, law clerk, Palmerston North, and Leo Sim, farmer, Himatangi, were sentenced at Palmerston North yesterday by Mr Lawry, S.M., to one year’s imprisonment each for publishing a subversive report in a pamphlet entitled “The Spark.” On two charges of having in his possession a typewriter and other materials with a view to making a subversive statement and on five othercharges of publishing subversive reports, Sim was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years. Klein was ordered to come up for sentence if called on within two years in respect to one charge of having in his possession a typewriter and other materials with a view to making a subversive statement and on three others for publishing subversive reports. “Too Much Talk.” There were too many societies, too much talk, and too many people with hobbies who did not get down to facts, said Dr Alexander Gillies, speaking last night at the annual meeting of the Wellington branch of the Crippled Children Society on the need for proper accommodation for the treatment of orthopaedic cases. Dr Gillies said that he was faced with the position every day; seeing crippled children who had to wait months to get into hospital because of overcrowding, and when they did get in, it was to an antiquated building. There was something wrong. He was amazed at how little had been done in the 11 years he had been back in New Zealand. He went to the Great War and after .13 years abroad he came back filled with ideas for such a society as theirs. After 11 years conditions were still antiquated and accommodation insufficient. Producer-gas Units. The Premier of New South Wales, Mr A. Mair, after testing a charcoal gas producer in the city recently, gave instructions to have one attached to his own car. If the performance on his car was reasonably satisfactory, the Premier said, he would ask that all cars in the State Public Service be equipped with producer gas units. It would be necessary for manufacturers to produce a standardised equipment so that a low purchase price could be charged. The Minister for Mines and Forests, Mr Vincent, said that he hoped that, as a result of the State Government’s campaign to popularise the use of producer-gas units, a quarter of the motor vehicles in New South Wales would be converted. Mr Vincent said that 10 firms were manufacturing producer-gas units, and it was possible that the State Government would manufacture them. The cost of the producer-gas outfit for a motor car, £6O or £7O, would be soon saved in reduced running costs.