LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Garden Notes. Owing to the pressure of space today the usual weekly budget of garden notes will not appear till tomorrow. National Patriotic Fund. Funds received by the National Patriotic Fund Board in response to the appeal by its chairman, Viscount Galway, now total £141,305, the increase since last week being £2282. R.S.A. Memoership. The membership of the Wairarapa R.S.A. continues to grow. At present the total is 583, which is considered most satisfactory for this time of the year. Rates Reduced. A reduction of 3d in the £ in the total rates levied for the current financial year has been made by the Auckland City Council. This reduces the present aggregate of 4s 4Jd to 4s liid. British Refugee Children. A meeting of representatives of local bodies in the Wairarapa is to be held ( in Masterton next Wednesday to consider preliminary arrangements for the reception of British refugee children in the district. Red Cross Donation. At its annual meeting in Wellington this week, the New Zealand Veterinary Association decided to make a donation of £2OO to the Sick, Wounded and Distressed Fund of the Joint Council of the New Zealand Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John. Primary Production Proposals. A comprehensive statement regarding proposals to increase production in the Wairarapa, to be submitted by Mr N. Lamont, chairman of the Masterton District Primary Production Council, at a meeting of district farmers to be held in Masterton on Monday, appears on page 2. Gas Cooking Demonstrations. There were large attendances yesterday afternoon and last night at the gas cooking demonstrations in the Municipal Hall conducted by Miss Una Carter. Miss Carter demonstrated the cooking of a complete dinner on a gas stove, this proving of great interest and value to her audience. Splendid Patriotic Effort. In response to the Girl Guides' Empire appeal to buy two air ambulances and a motor lifeboat, costing £20,000, the New Zealand Guides raised £943 by voluntary subscription during the week June 1 to 8. They asked for £250, and expected to raise £3OO. As the response was so good, the New Zealand headquarters is subscribing £57 towards the exchange, so that £BOO sterling can be paid to the Girl Guides’ Headquarters in London. British Children. ■ “We should put oui’ shoulder to the wheel and help,” observed Mr W. R. Nicol, chairman of the Wairarapa Board of Governors, when referring last night to the British children evacuees. The board decided to offer its assistance and Messrs Nicol, F. M. Whyte, A. Owen Jones and the Principal, Mr G. G. Hancox, were appointed a committee to attend a meeting being called by the Mayor next week. End of Exhibition. From the end of this month the Centennial Exhibition buildings and grounds at Rongotai will be a Royal Air Force establishment. Demolition of the exhibition is now in its last stages, and already the Exhibition Company is preparing to move out and the Air Force to move in. The staff that only a couple of months ago numbered some hundreds is now reduced to four or five. It is expected to be some weeks before any statement of the degree of financial success of the exhibition can be announced. College Hostel. “We should forget all about a new hostel in times like these,” stated Mr W. R. Nicol, chairman of the Wairarapa ' College Board of Governors, in commenting on a proposal to approach the Education Department for the erection of new hostel accommodation. The matter had been deferred from the last meeting of the board and in view of the turn of international events it was decided to allow the matter to lapse for the present. Free Library Systems. Members of the library committee of the Masterton Borough Council paid a visit to Pahiatua and Palmerston North on Wednesday to inspect the libraries in those centres, in order to gain first-hand information as to the working of free library systems. The Palmerston North civic authorities conduct their own free system, but that at Pahiatua is conducted under the auspices of the Country Libraries’ Service instituted by the Government. A report of the matter will be presented to the next meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. Chatham Island Service. A scheme to ensure the continuance of steamer communication between the Chatham Islands and Lyttelton, will be completed next week, the Minister of Marine, Dr. McMillan, said in reply to a question yesterday. The Westland Shipping Company which owns the Tees, the vessel used on this run for many years, has gone into liquidation, and the Tees is tied up. as is usual during the winter. “The Government realises that the service to the Chatham Islands must be kept going,” said Dr. McMillan, “and it is investigating proposals that will ensure its continuance. I hope to have arrangements completed next week.” New Zealand Airmen. That New Zealand airmen should figure so much in the news is not surprising when it is known that there are at present between GOO and 700 men from the Dominion serving in the Royal Air Force. Gf this number 280 have left for the United Kingdom since the outbreak of war, and a further 520 arc at present in training in New Zealand for service overseas. [ These men are serving as pilots, air gunners, and observers. By the end of this year New Zealand -will have an annual output of 900 pilots fully trained. 500 pilots partially trained, and 1500 observers and air gunners partially trained. You wrap up your ncad in red flannel, You snuffle and snort in your bed, You plaster each pane and each panel, In dread of a draught that is dead. Nay. Cast all your wraps to the needy, Such miseries never endure. For there is a remedy speedy In Woods' Great Peppermint Cure.