LOCAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 July 1940, Page 4

LOCAL

New Serial Story. There commences in toe. Age” a new story entitled A‘JCmebank’s Adventure,” by that noted author, R. A. J. Walling, who is noted foi’ the exciting character of his stories. "Brockleband’s Adventure” is not only thrilling, but carries with it a charming romance. Frost in Masterton. In Masterton this morning 12.8 degrees of frost were registered. Coursing Meeting. A number of local greyhounds will compete at a coursing meeting to be held at Hastings on Saturday next, this being in appreciation of the visit made by Hawke’s Bay owners to Masterton recently.' A number of open stakes will be decided for a banner. Sudden Death on Train.

As the Wellington-New Plymouth express arrived at Aramoho yesterday afternoon, Mr W. McLennan, Wanganui, who was a passenger on the train, collapsed and died. He was aged 62 years, and was a retired hotelkeeper. He is survived by his wife and an adult family. He had been treated for heart trouble, and no inquest will be held. Y.M.C.A. Appeal For Funds.

One well known business man in Masterton, who has always taken a keen interest in the work for the benefit of youths of the town, has offered to give the Y.M.C.A. a donation of £5 providing 19 others contributed a similar amount each. Two amounts of £5 were immediately forthcoming and it is expected that others will quickly follow. Transport Services. “The war will not be used to clear the road for complete socialisation of business transport as some critics seem to fear,” said the Minister of Transport, Mr Semple, in a statement issued yesterday. He said that all that he was endeavouring to do was to conserve petrol and to rationalise, not nationalise, the transport services, and he did not want to do it compulsorily. He wanted to appeal to the business capacity of those engaged in the industry to do it themselves. Patriotic Effort By Teachers. The sum of £550 has been raised to date as the result of an appeal made to members of the Otago branch of the New Zealand Educational Institute for contributions to the war effort. The secretary, Mr A. Hanna, announced yesterday that it was proposed that the contributions should be used to provide an ambulance. Inquiries are being made concerning the cost of placing one fully-equipped in England, and it is confidently expected that the amount required will be forthcoming. Contract System on Waterfront.

The co-operative contract system, of discharging and loading cargo on overseas vessels was brought into operation in the port of Wellington yesterday. The Waterfront Control Commission assumed control of the pay office and labour bureau which have been operated hitherto by the Wellington Cooperative Waterside Labour Employment Association. Plans for the working of cargo on coastal vessels have not yet been completed, but are under discussion by the commission and the shipowners.

Shoplifters Sentenced. In the Magistrates’ Court,' Wellington, yesterday, James Audley Register, labourer, aged 60, for the theft of a roll of suiting material valued at £2 ss, the property of the Don Tailoring Company, and of a roll of suiting material, three pairs of socks and twoheels of a total value of £1 15s, the property of some person or persons unknown, was sentenced to nine months’ imprisonment. The theft of a large number of small articles, including a woman’s singlet, face powder and hand lotion of a total value of £1 19s 7}d, was admitted by William Henry Roberts. window-cleaner, and he was sentenced to a month in gaol. Sisters of Compassion.

On returning this week to Wellington from a visit to Australia, the Rev Mother Cecilia, head of the order of the Sisters of Compassion, said that it was intended to extend foundations of the order to Broken Hill next year, and to Brisbane in 1942. This announcement will interest people throughout the Dominion, as it is the first occasion on which a foundation has been made of an order originating in New Zealand. The order was established by the late Rev Mother Mary Joseph Aubert,.at Jerusalem (Wanganui River) at the request of the late Archbishop Redwood in 1883, and has been carried on there to the present day.

Attempt to Burgle Hotel. Discovering a masked man in her room in the early hours of yesterday morning, a young woman frustrated what was evidently an attempt to burgle the Taradale Hotel. Hawke’s Bay. She immediately gave the alarm, and the man, the lower part of whose face was .covered with a handkerchief, made for the door, switching out the light as he went, and ran through the hotel and out the back entrance. Aroused by the alarm. Mr A. G. Herbert, son of the proprietor. Mr' A. M. Herbert, gave chase, but emerged from the same entrance in time to see the intruder jump into a waiting car driven by another man and then make off. It was discovered that his haul consisted of 2s stolen from the young woman’s room and joints and vegetables from a refrigerator. First Echelon Parcels.

Inquiries have been made as to whether the parcels made up under the National Patriotic Fund Board’s scheme for the First Echelon of the N.Z.E.F. in Egypt have arrived there. Mr G. A. Hayden, secretary of the board, said yesterday that as shipping arrangements were altered after the dispatch of the parcels, on account of the change in the international situation, they had not reached Egypt, but had gone to England. Arrangements were being made for the distribution of those parcels among the Second Echelon in England and for a fresh supply of parcels to be sent to Egypt for the First Echelon. Mr Hayden added that a further sum of money had been cabled to Egypt for the purchase of comforts for tlie Now Zealand troops there. The last advice ho had received from Mr Victor C. Jones, who was acting as the board’s representative in Egypt, was that funds were not lacking for this purpose.