LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 September 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Theft of Money. Charged in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, with the theft of £465 19s from the New Zealand Government, while employed by the Government,. Abel Kerr Edie, salesman, aged 46, pleaded guilty before Mr Goulding, S.M., and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. Measles in Camp. Ten men from the First Battalion, Wellington Regiment, camped on the Wanganui racecourse, are down with measles and have been sent to the isolation ward of the Wanganui Hospital. There were several cases of measles in the battalion before it left Wellington for Wanganui, but the men concerned were left behind. The men in hospital are reported to be in a satisfactory condition. Sedqley Home Gifts. The matron of Sedgley Home acknowledges with grateful thanks receipt of the following gifts:—Shirts and parcels of clothing: St Andrew’s Ladies’ Guild (Martinborough). Cakes: Mrs Neal Irwin, Mrs Trevor Beetham, Miss Gray, St Matthew’s Church, Mrs Edwards, Mrs W. A. Todd, Mr F. Maunsell, Mrs Sydney Smith, Featherston Patriotic Society. Bread and biscuits: Hadlow School. Luncheon sausage: Mr Long. Buns: Mrs Styles. Vegetables: Mrs Gaskin (Eketahuna). Sheep: Mr Hugh Morrison (“Awatoitoi”). Mr Hugh Morrison (“Oban”). Apples: Mr H. G. Williams. Beef: Mr T. C. Richardson. Honey: Miss Heckler (Mangamahoe). Suit: Mrs F. Tildesley (Mangamahoe). Entertainments: Pictures. Mr H. Reid, pictures and tea, Mrs S. J. Gill and Miss P. Gill.

Young Farmers’ Club Dance. Arrangements are wen in hand for the Young Farmers’ Club annual dance to be held in the Masterton Municipal Hall tonight. The joint secretaries, Messrs K. Donovan and H. Bannister, have been working hard to ensure the enjoyment of dancers. The music will be supplied by J. Barnes’s Rhythm Boys’ Orchestra and patrons are assured that tonight’s gathering will be up to the usual high standard of the Masterton Young Farmers’ Club dances. Epitaph for Hitler. An address descriptive of the methods of propaganda being exploited by the Germans in the present war was concluded by Mr K. H. Melvin, in Auckland recently, with a suggestion for an appropriate epitaph for Hitler. "This whole business of propaganda,” he said, “suggests than an appropriate epitaph for Hitler when he does die ultimately would be, ‘This is definitely my last territorial demand’.” Poles’ Foresight. Addressing the Wanganui Rotary Club, Mr M. Sendyk, a Pole who left his country about 18 months ago, said that one of the measures taken by his people to retard the Nazi invasion was to destroy railway time-tables. That, he said, might not ' seem impressive, but when it is known that trains, both international and national, had to pass through Warsaw every few minutes, something of the intricacies of the time-table could be imagined. It was estimated that it would take competent engineers and train administrators 15 years to restore the time-tables to proper shape.