LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Sick and Wounded Fund. Wellington provincial, contributions to the Sick, Wounded and Distress Fund now stand at £122,883. Central School Dance. There was a good attendance at the “old time” dance held in the Central School on Saturday night by the Central School Parents’ Association. The music was supplied by Mr Jack Barnes’s Rhythm Boys, and Mr W. R. Nicol was an efficient M.C. Caledonian Society’s Ingleside. The Wairarapa Caledonian Society will hold the first ingleside of the season in the Masonic Hall tomorrow night. The ingleside will be open to members and their friends. As these gatherings are always popular and excellently managed, there is sure to be a large attendance. Estate Purchased by Government. The sale of the Strathmore Estate, an area of 9831 acres, at Reporoa, halfway between Rotorua and Taupo, to the Government was announced at the 1 annual meeting of shareholders of the Finance Corporation of New Zealand, Limited (in liquidation), in Hamilton. Of the area mentioned over 4000 acres is in grass. Soldier Seriously Injured. With injuries to his head Private P. McCombie was taken to the Wellington hospital at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday, and yesterday the hospital reported that his condition was serious. Private McCombie is stationed at Trentham Camp, but was on leave and was taken to hospital from the residence of his wife in Willis Street. It is thought that he received his injuries in an altercation in the city earlier in the evening.

Cycling Club Dance. There was a good attendance at a dance held in the Masonic Hall on Saturday night by the Wairarapa Amateur Cycling Club. Excellent music was supplied by Tom Udy’s Orchestra, and Mr W. Palmer was an efficient M.C. Monte Carlo waltz competitions were won by Sergeant “Dug” Wellington. and Miss Audrey Keisenberg, and Mr D. S. Hay and Miss Talbot. Supper was served by an energetic committee. Girl Found Lying on Road.

Found lying on the side of the main road, Heretaunga, by a passing motorist late on Friday night, Miss Dorothy Nina Hansen, aged 19, who resides with her parents in Kiln Street, Silverstream, was taken to the Wellington Public Hospital by the Free Ambulance. Miss Hansen was unconscious when found, but recovered sufficiently to give her name and address. She had received concussion and abrasions to her face. It is believed that Miss Hansen was struck by a motor-car or some other vehicle which failed to stop. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory. The Spirit to Win.

“From my daily contact with the British Government I can say that every day the Motherland is becoming better organised and better prepared to withstand any onslaught that the enemy may attempt to launch against her,’’ said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, in an address at Wellington last night. He added that throughout the length and breadth of the United Kingdom armed men were ready to repel the expected onslaught whenever, wherever and however it may come. “Despite the fall of France the British people are in no way daunted and they remain determined to continue to fight and to win, whatever the odds,” he said. Unity Negotiations.

Negotiations between the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, and the Leader of the Opposition. Mr Hamilton, on proposals .for unity between the parties in the direction of New Zealand’s war effort, were continued at the week-end, but it is understood that finality has not yet been reached. Mr Fraser and Mr Hamilton conferred briefly on Saturday morning, but so far neither has made any public statement on the progress of their series of talks. The present discussions are believed to be based on a plan for a War Cabinet with Opposition representation. It is thought likely that such an organisation would be the supreme authority on matters associated with the country’s war effort, all domestic questions being left to the Cabinet.

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