LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 October 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Out of Camp Pay. Out of camp pay is now available at the Masterton Defence Office to those eligible to receive it. Mounted Parade Cancelled. The narade of the East Coast Mounted Rifles called for October 7 has been cancelled. No more parades will be held until the release of officers and n.c.o.’s from the Tauherenikau Camp about the middle of this month. Labour Caucus. For the third day, a caucus of the Parliamentary Labour Party was held yesterday, members meeting early in the afternoon and again last evening. The party passed a motion congratulating the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple, and the Associate Minister, Mr Wilson, on their inauguration and organisation of the Home Guard. Car Stripped by Thieves. Thieves removed a car from where it was parked in a Napier street, and without even taking it off the road near the town stripped it of its four wheels, battery, fuel pipe, petrol and the caps of radiator and petrol tank. The stripped car was found by a passing taxi-driver, who reported it to the police, who in the meantime had had advice of a car having been removed from a Napier street. St Andrew Society. More than usual interest will attach to this month’s gathering of the St Andrew Society, which will be held in the Masonic Hall on Saturday, as the Scottish children who recently arrived in the Wairarapa and their guardians have been invited as guests of the society. Members of the forces in uniform are also invited to attend the gathering. The evening will be devoted to old-time and Scots dancing. Motor Cyclist’s Death. Injured in an accident on Waterloo Quay, Wellington, at 7 o’clock last night, Thomas Bunce, waterside worker, Lower Hutt, died in hospital at 10.15. IJdr Bunce was the rider of a motor-cycle with a side-car attached which struck a kerb opposite the wool store of Messrs Murray Roberts and Co., Ltd., and capsized. A passenger in the side-car was not injured seriously, but the rider was taken to hospital by the Free .Ambulance with a fractured skull. Allegation Repudiated. A rumour which he said was persistent that he was adding to his overseas assets by building a £50,000 block of flats in Sydney, was referred to by the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple, in a statement last night. Mr Semple emphatically repudiated the allegation. “Beyond my home in Wellington,” said Mr Semple, “I haven’t a cent invested anywhere in i the world. I do not own sufficient wood in Australia to build a mousetrap, let alone a block of flats, and if you can find a philanthropist who will pay off the mortgage on my house, lead me to him!” Direct questions regarding his • overseas investments had been addressred to him so often, said the Minister, I that he thought it advisable to make a public declaration as to the state of I his purse. An entertainment arranged by Miss Nola Woods for the Provincial Patriotic Fund will be presented in the Opera House, Masterton, tomorrow (Thursday), commencing at 8 p.m. The programme will be varied, and will include sketches and songs by the Masterton Savage Club, ballets, solo dances, recitations, percussion band items, piano duets, tap dancing and songs. The charge for admission will be 2s and Is. with booking 3d extra at Messrs Steele and Bull’s shop. The concert is being presented under the patronage of the ’ Mayor.