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Wairarapa Times-Age, 6 July 1940, Page 4

Pests in Demanti. — A Palmerston North reside is offering £1 a head for live stouts and buck polecats, and 4d for blue rat skins. Cyclist Killed. When his bicycle was struck by a motor-car on the Great North Road, Auckland, Mr Edward Hunter Peters, aged 36, married, Point Chevalier, was killed almost instantly. He received extensive head injuries and died before an ambulance arrived. Young Farmers’ Dance. There was a good attendance at the Tinui Young Farmers’ Club annual dance, held in the Tinui Hall last night. The M.’sC. were Messrs J. Groves and J. Moss. The music was supplied by Mr Jack Barnes and supper was served by a ladies’ committee. Death of Tram Conductor. Immediately after giving the motorman the signal to move on at Stewart Dawson’s corner, Wellington, yesterday, Mr William Albert Hammond, tram conductor, had a seizure and fell from the tram to the ground. He was removed to hospital, but died en route. He was aged about 35. Petrol Licences. The local District Oil Fuel Controller advises that all current oil fuel licences will be cancelled as from Tuesday next, July 9. Licences issued at Masterton should be presented at the front counter of the Post Office on or after that date for renewal and amendment as may be required. Crossing Collision. Thomas Black, a middle-aged returned soldier farmer at Laghmor, was severely injured in the head yesterday afternoon when a goods train collided with a truck on one of the principal crossings in Ashburton. Black endeavoured to swing the truck away from the engine, but the vehicle was struck co the side of the bonnet and was hurlecT'against a telegraph pole. Black was thrown out and landed only a foot from the rails. Red Cross Donations. The Red Cross Society desire to acknowledge with thanks gifts from the following:—Mrs Minifie, Mrs Olliver, Mrs Ewart, Mrs Howard, Women’s Auxiliary of the Labour Party, Miss Tuxward (parcel), Mrs Burch (parcel), Miss Pinkerton (parcel), Mrs Ingram, Miss F. Kummer, Mrs P. R. Cook, Mrs A. Robinson, Miss J. McLaren, Mrs S. E. Taylor, Mrs Forrest, Mrs J. T. Henderson, Mrs Madsen, Mrs Willett, Mrs Carpenter, Townswomen’s Guild, Mrs Marsh, Mrs Cody and staff, the Hospital Group, Miss Brown, Miss Wyber, Mrs James, Mrs Prior, Mrs J. O’Connor, Mrs A. Hosking, Mrs E. Norman, Mrs G. R. Crosse, and many parcels having no names attached. Soldiers’ Pay. An increase in pay for the rank and file of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, even though it might involve reducing expenditure in some other direction, was advocated by Mr J. A. McL. Roy in the House of Representatives yesterday. He said that 7s 6d a day was not sufficient, even though the men received their clothing and keep in addition, when compared with the returns from ordinary work. He emphasised that each man was offering his life in the service of the country, and said that those who came back, even if unwounded, would have deteriorated to some extent. “I think we could give them a bit more,” he added. “They are certainly not overpaid.” Universal Superannuation. Up to the end of June 32,898 applications had been made for universal superannuation of £lO under the Social Security Act and 29.900 claims had been granted, said the Minister of Social Security, Mr Parry, yesterday. Of 71') applications ruled out, approximately half of them had been submitted by persons disqualified from receiving superannuation benefits by reason of being in receipt of other monetary benefits under the Social Security Act. The majority of 2278 applications remaining on hand were from persons who had had difficulty in submitting the proofs necessary to establish their eligibility. “All possible assistance,” Mr Parry added, “is being given the applicants by the department to ensure that finality will be reached with the minimum of delay.” Offer to Load Ships. An offer to load overseas vessels at Gisborne free of charge and whenever required was contained in a resolution passed by a meeting of the Matawai Settlers’ Association. The meeting expressed alarm at the delay and expense of loading frozen meat and other produce for the United Kingdom, and the resolution urged “that, the 40-hour week and all overtime rates of pay be abolished for the duration of the war to enable surplus foodstuffs to be sent expeditiously to the people who are bearing the brunt of the struggle to maintain our > very existence and who are in need of every scrap of foodstuffs wc can send them.” It was added that the meeting felt that opposition to the suggestion advanced would be confined to very few among the waterside workers and that settlers in the national crisis would offer their services to the Government free of charge until such time as reasonable arrangements could be mrde with the workers concerned. An Unusual Case. An unusual case arising out of the irregular issue of a driver’s licence was dealt with before Mr Lawry, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court. Pahiatua, when Agnes Catharine McDonald appeared to answer charges of failing, when applying for a driver's licence, to supply (particulars of a previous refusal of a licence, and of applying to a local authority outside the district in which she resided for a licence. Convictions were entered on both charges, and fines and costs totalling £1 13s 6d inflicted. A plea of guilty was entered on behalf of Miss McDonald by Mr S. K. Siddells, who said that if anyone was being charged in the present instance it should have been him, as he was responsible for the application being made to the Pahiatua Borough Council. On the day of the offence he had urgent business to transact with Miss McDonald in Pahiatua. The only licensed driver in the family was not available, but. on being informed that Miss McDonald, who had no licence, could drive, he instructed them to come to Pahiatua, where he would endeavour to arrange for a licence to be issued. When he found that the inspector would not be in town on that date, ho made arrangements with the town clerk, who conducted a test and ’ issued a licence.