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Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 July 1940, Page 4

Man Power <_ . ...tec; A meeting of the MaSterton-Mun Power Committee was held this morning under the chairmanship of Mr T. Jordan. Over a dozen applications came before the board. Optimist Club. At the weekly meeting of the Masterton Optimist Club tomorrow night the speaker will be Mr D. McCurdy, an Australian carpenter, who will speak on his impressions of New Zealand.

Services Appreciated. Members of the St. John Ambulance who have attended sittings of the Medical Board in Masterton, have rendered valuable service without remuneration of any kind. The services of the men are greatly appreciated by the authorities. Y.M.C.A. Dance. There was a fair attendance at a dance held by the Masterton Optimist Club in the Y.M.C.A. Hall on Saturday night in aid of the Y.M.C.A. local appeal. Mr S. L. Hatch carried out the duties of M.C., and the music was supplied by Trevor Hicks and his band. Supper was served by the committee. Successful Dance. The dance held in the Masonic Hall on Saturday night by the Cadet Division of the St. John Ambulance was an outstanding success. There was a large attendance, who danced to excellent music supplied by Jack Barnes’ Rhythm Boys. • Mr C. S. McQuade, Cadet Superintendent, was an efficient M.C. A feature of the gathering was the excellent supper served by a joint committee. Extras were played by Mr C. Bell, and Daniel Davey rendered two tap dances and sang a popular song. Monte Carlo waltz competitions were won by Miss S. Bouzaid and Mr P. O’Brien, and by Miss N. A. Lachore and Mr V. O’Brien. Four People Injured. Four persons were injured when the motor-car in which they were travelling struck a telegraph pole near the Normandale railway crossing (Lower Hutt) shortly before 5 p.m. yesterday. Those injured were: Mr M. Hart, machinist, Miramar, shock, broken nose and abrasions. Mrs M. Burke, Oriental Parade, shock, lacerated wound to the forehead, and injury to right knee. Mrs G. Bell, Seatoun Road, shock, broken nose, and abrasions. Mr A. Blake, machinist, Onepu Road, shock, lacerated wound to chin, and abrasions. All the injured, with the exception of Mr Blake, were admitted to hospital.

Large Boar Killed. Several escapes from serious injury were experienced by two of six men in an exciting pig-hunt near the main road about a mile from Whangamata, near Waihi. A boar, which weighed 2781 b., kept to the short fern and teatree and evaded both men and dogs for several hours. It was finally bailed up and was killed by two of the party, Messrs F. Durrant and A. Watt, who were armed only with a fern slasher and a knife. Two of the dogs were severely ripped, one having to be destroyed. The hunt commenced in the Wentworth Valley about 10 a.m. and end/Jd about 7.30 p.m. after covering a distance of approximately 15 miles.

Front Door Milk Delivery. A question raised recently by Mr A. Blake, the consolidation officer of the Auckland Metropolitan Milk Council, dealt with the introduction of front door or front gate delivery. Vendors have stated that they could distribute five to 10 gallons more a day if front door delivery was enforced. The representative of a large firm said that the system would save one hour daily on his round. “On the Casey Estate, where the State houses are provided with a receptacle at the front door,” said Mr Blake, “a roundsman' delivered three gallons in seven and a half minutes, some of it being loose milk.” The matter brought up by Mr Blake has not yet been dealt with by the council. Conversion Loan. “The first instalment of £1,000,000 sterling, due on the conversion loan negotiated in London last year was paid according to the agreement,” said the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, in an interview last night. “The second payment for the year, also £1,000,000 sterling, is to be made before December 31.” Mr Nash said that the war had made no difference to the agreement concerning the payments to be made by New Zealand. He explained that the decline of nearly £1,500,000 in the Reserve Bank’s holding of sterling reported last week was caused by the repayment of loans, principally the first instalment on that negotiated last year. The loan, originally £17,000,000‘, was now approximately £16,000,000, as more than £1,000,000 had been paid in January this year. Plant to Close Down. Because no import licences for motor vehicles are available for the fourth period a number of men in a motor assembly plant in Christchurch will be out of work after this month. This was revealed by Mr H. C. F. Stevens, managing director of the motorcar assembly and body-building works of Stevens and Sons, Ltd. A year ago a total of 171 men was employed, but after July 17 the total will be 11. On Saturday the last chassis was received in the assembly works, which operates on the chain system. Already the last body has passed through the paint shop, and the work for the men engaged in this stage has ended. As the remaining cars in the works pass along the assembly line the jobs of more and more men will have ended till on July 17 the last car passes out of the shop. Then the plant will have to close down. ■Fossil Remains Found. An interesting discovery, which may prove of great interest to scientists, was made in the Greymouth Harbour Board's limestone quarry at Cobden on Friday. After the splitting., by a powder charge, of a 1000-ton block of stone which had been lying on the quarry face for some months the complete fossil remains of some prehistoric animal were discovered. Though the blast destroyed some of the fossil, it was still possible to follow the outline of the fossilised skeleton, but it is not considered to bear marked resemblance to any present-day animal. The backbone and ribs are clearly traceable in the limestone, and are somewhat like those of a whale, but they are surmounted by other fossilised bone which indicates that the animal, when alive, had shoulders and limbs. It is believed that the fossil is that of either a prehistoric whale or some land animal of an early period in the world’s history.

u <'■ ■ ' (To the Editor.) Sir,—The advertised price for the Hawke's Bay—Wairarapa match was gate Is. stand Is 6d. Arriving at the gate, I found that the entrance charge was Is 6d, stand Is. Is this Rugby trickery or is the unfortunate printer again to blame?. —Yours, etc, HAD. Masterton, July 8. The correct charges were: Gate Is 6d, stand Is. Owing to a typographical error these charges .were reversed in the advertisement.