LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Frosts in Masterton. Frosts were experienced in MasterI ton over the weekend, one of 9.5 degrees yesterday and another of 6.2 degrees today. Wellington Competitions. At the Wellington competitions .on Saturday Beulah Hirst, of Masterton. won the girls' song (12 to 14 years of age.) with 86 points, three points ahead of the second competitor. Prolific Lambing. In a flock of 650 Romney ewes on Mr S. Given’s farm at Pollock, Waiuku, are seven ewes each with triplet lambs and one with quadruplets, making a total of 25 lambs for the eight. All are thriving. Provincial Patriotic Fund. The following donations to the Provincial Patriotic Fund are acknowledged:—Pahiatua Patriotic Society, £134 7s 2d; Martinborough Patriotic Committee (proceeds of the Kohunui Mutual Improvement Association’s ball), £3O. Guaranteed Price. Because of increases in costs which have occurred recently, and partial--larly because of the 5 per cent cost of living bonus recently granted by the Arbitration Court, the Dairy Industry Council, on behalf of dairy-farmers, is asking the Minister of Marketing, Mr Nash, that the guaranteed price for dairy produce be increased forthwith. New Town Reserves.

Plans arc in hand for the laying out of the two children's playing areas and the rest park set aside in the new State housing block near ■ College Street. The work will be carried out by the Housing Department. It is proposed to provide walks, seats and other amenities and to do a certain amount of planting. The children's play areas will be securely enclosed. State Houses. It is proposed to erect another twenty or so State houses in the College and Renall Street area on various sections purchased by the Government from Mr Nops. A number of houses are nearing completion in Cornwall Street. Altogether, about 90 houses in the State settlement in that area are now occupied and there is still no lack of applicants for new houses. “Cult of the Kilt.”

At the Saint Andrew Society’s gathering on Saturday evening, loud applause greeted the first appearance in the garb of his ancestors of a wellknown member of the society. The society’s efforts in the promotion of the “cult of the kilt” are producing excellent results. It is expected that, at the next gathering, yet another prominent member will appear for the first time clad in his own proper tartan.

Family Living in Garage. According to the Hutt County Council clerk the practice of using garages as living quarters is by no means uncommon in the county. Following a complaint to the medical officer of health, stated the building inspector, he visited a garage at Raumati South in which- were living a man, his wife, and their three children. Mr J. B. Yaldwyn said the council would not be able to turn the family out unless they had other premises, because the magistrate would not make an order. The council decided to obtain the opinion of the council’s solicitors as to what action could be taken. Australian Army Camps.

The amenities of Australian military camps were found by Mr James Fletcher, managing director of the Fletcher Construction Company, Limited, to be definitely inferior to those of camps in New Zealand. Mr Fletcher, who has returned from a month's visit to Australia, said that the grounds were in a very rough stale as compared with the trim and orderly conditions brought about by the Public Works Department in this country. He felt bound to say that the general standard of comfort provided was lower than here and recreational buildings were conspicuous by their absence.