LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Boring for Oil. The New Zealand Petroleum Co, Ltd, reports that the Morere bore is down to 4275 feet. The formation is unchanged. The Midhirst bore is down to 1914 feet. The formation continues to be soft sand, making progress rather slow. Wellington Competitions. At the Wellington competitions yesterday Beulah Hirst, of Masterton, was highly commended in the character story dance for children 12 to 14 years of age. Drunken Motorist Fined.

Commenting that accused was not grossly intoxicated, Mr Stout, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, imposed a fine of £25 on Jules Leon Kay, blacksmith, aged 42.. Accused admitted having been intoxicated while in charge of a motor-car in Willis Street early yesterday. Christmas Gift Parcels.

A house to house collection and a street appeal will be made on Friday, September 6, to raise funds for providing Masterton’s quota of Christmas gift parcels for New Zealand forces overseas. The collection will be made by the Women’s Patriotic Committee. Masterton’s quota is 250 gift parcels. Maori Loan for War Purposes.

The Aupouri tribe of the Parengarenga district, which is farthest north in New Zealand, at a tribal gathering at Te Kao, decided, without dissent, to lend the Government £lOOO free of interest for the duration of the war and six months thereafter, also to make a straight-out gift of £lOO for general war purposes. These sums come out of the cash reserves earned within, the Native settlement during the last few years. Gift to Buy Planes.

A unanimous decision to donate £30,000 of its accumulated funds for the purchase of aeroplanes as a gesture of appreciation “of the wonderful services being performed by the Royal Air Force,” was reached at the annual meeting of the Electoral Committee of the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board in Wellington yesterday The question of where these planes should serve is to be left to the Meat Board in collaboration with the New Zealand and Imperial authorities. Speed at Funerals.

Funeral directors on the West Coast have been requested by the Oil Fuel Advisory Committee to increase the travelling speed of funerals to 20 miles an hour. The letter from the committee Stated that the consumption of petrol when travelling at a low speed was considerably greater th an when travelling at a moderate speed. Though the saving of petrol by the f \ in^ directors’ vehicles would be negligible, the saving in petrol in vehicles following a funeral would be considerable. Compliance with the request will ehminate walking at funeials. Assets of Newspaper Sold.

The assets of the Hawke’s Bay Daily Mai l Ltd., were sold yesterday by the receiver for the National Bank to tne Hawke’s Bay Publishing Company, Ltd., a private company with a subscribed capital of £7500. e M essrs tors of the new company aie Messis W. A. Appleton, Wellington; E. Huie, Waikouaiti, Otago; D. J. j N Lowrv and H. H. Wylie, Hastings;’ and Forbes McHardy, Waipukurau ’ The managing editor of the paper' will be Mr Huie, who has taken up residence in Hastings. It was announced that the editorial policy of the paper will be independent and will have no party affiliations The “Daily Mail” was first published in February, 1938. Minister Impressed.

Referring to the field day held in November, the annual report of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association states: “The standard of the work done by the competing teams was spoken very highly of by the judges from Trentham Camp and in this respec much credit is due to Staff Sergeant Maior Rogers, who supeivised thk portion of the programme We were honoured by a visit from the Hon W. E Parry. Minister ol Internal Allans, and party, who showed great interest in our girls’ display, in fact so much so that he has been quoting this association right throughout New Zealand in connection with physical recreation. jThis fact in itself speaks volumes for the results achieved.” School Term Periods.

A request for information on the amount of leave taken by teachers and pupils because of sickness was sought by the Federation of School Committees in a letter received by the Auckland Education Board. The letter stated that the information was required to enable the federation to consider the merits of a resolution from a constituent committee asking for a rearrangement of the period of school terms to allow farmers to take advantage of the slack farming period :.n arranging their children’s holidays. It was suggested that the first term might be lengthened and the others shortened accordingly, as the second and third appeared to be those when most illness occurred. The board decided to inform the federation that most illness occurred in the second, winter term, and that it did not favour making the terms longer.