EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 18 October 1940, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

BLACK & WHITE BALL A UAMUA FUNCTION. (“Thnes-Age” Special.) The annual Black and White ba! was Field al Hainua on Wednesday night, and proved very popular. Visi tors were present from Eketahuna, Pahiatua, Masterton and Woodville while the surrounding districts wer< also well represented. The hall wa: gaily decorated with the Hamua Foot ball Club's colours, black and white while ferns and flowers covered the walls. As a result of the function the Patri otic funds will benefit considerably. Mr Ray Legges's orchestra supplier the- music, extras being supplied by Miss P. Lawson. Mr R. Bourke made an efficient M.C. A Monte Carlo dance was won bj Mi- B. Gleeson and Miss J. Selby. Supper provided by the Hamm ladies added to the enjoyment of th; ball, which concluded in the earlj hours of the morning with the singing of God Save the King. Eketahuna School. The secondary roll at the Eketahum District High School at present numbers 40. The outbreak of measles i: still confined to Standards 5 and 6 (Forms 1 and 2) only. Efforts are being made to confine the disease to this room of the school, by the judiciouexclusion of contacts. Personal. Mr Roy Quinlivan is a visitor tc Gisborne.

« A FINE OF £5O. ECHO OF MOTOR ACCIDENT. H3y Telegraph—Press Association.! WELLINGTON, This Day. Found guilty by a jury on Tuesday of negligently driving a motor-truck a Taita, thereby causing injury to Leonard King, Robert Andrew Stow, hotelkeeper of Tatteru, aged 46. was flneci £5O by Mr Justice Ostler in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, and his licence to drive was cancelled for a year. Mr O. C. Mazengarb, who appeared for prisoner, submitted that prisonei had not been grossly negligent but had committed an error of judgment. His Honour, addressing prisoner, remarked that the jury had acquitted him on the more serious charge of being intoxicated in charge. Had they convicted prisoner of that he would have felt it his duty to send him to jail. His Honour commented on the danger of a person taking alcohol when about to drive. The probation oflicer had not recommended probation in respect of the charge on which prisoner. had been convicted, but he could not see his way to send prisoner to jail.