LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 October 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

People’s Day at Carterton Show. In view of the request received from (lie Wairarapa and East Coast P. and A. Society it was decided by the Masterton Borough Council last night to invite shopkeepers to observe Thursday, October 31 ("People's Day”) as. a public holiday from 11 a.m. Swimming Classes. ’i7ie application of Miss Elsie Donald for permission to use the two public baths in Dixon Street for swimming and life-saving instruction classes during the coming season was granted at a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night. Subversive Statements. Three months’ imprisonment on each of two charges of making subversive statements, the sentences to be cumulative, was the penalty imposed on William Edward John Aitken, married, aged 39, by the magistrate, Mr Levvey, .at Christchurch yesterday. The charges related to statements made by Aitken declaring that he did not care if the British got beaten. He would just as soon be under Hitler, and would rather fight for the Nazis than 'the British. The Town Flower. At a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night it was decided to approve of the suggestion made by the Horticultural and Beautifying Societies that the flowering apple be adopted as the town flower. An order was placed for £5 worth of trees for next season's planting. Cr. H. E. Gardner and Messrs L. Robinson and F. H. Knowles were asked to bring down a report on the most suitable location for an avenue of the trees to be planted.

Concrete Lining Operations. “The concrete lining of the lOinch cast iron pipe line is nearly completed and the last section leading into the reservoir will be completed this week,” reported the Borough Engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, at a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night. “As the time taken to line this section has considerably exceeded the estimated time required by the contractors, how far we are able to proceed with the lining of the 12inch main is entirely dependent upon the weather from now on.” New War Loan. A cautious attitude was adopted by brokers when the new £8,000.000 War Loan was quoted for the first time on the Auckland Stock Exchange yesterday. The opening offer for the stock on the fully-paid basis of £lOO was £5O, which was immediately raised to £6O, then £65. £7O and £75 in rapid succession. The initial response of sellers was at £9O, after which the limit was reduced to £B5, £B3 and £B2 at. which the market closed, leaving a range of £7 between buyers and sellers. Clean Bill of Health. “I have pleasure in again reporting that there has not been any infectious disease reported during September or to date this month,” stated the Borough Health Inspector, Mr T. A. Russell, at a meeting of the Masterton Borough Council last night. All types of tuberculosis were now notifiable to the Medical Officer of Health but not to the local body concerned. In future such cases would be reported on and visited by Health Department nurses, the Sanitary Inspector being called in if unsuitable living conditions were found. Maori Name for Lower Hutt. Commenting on the numerous suggestions that have been made for a new name for Lower Hutt on its elevation to the status of a city, the Mayor of Lower Hutt, Mr J. W. Andrews, said yesterday that he felt very grateful to those who had made the suggestions. Mr Andrews stated, however, that the legislation governing changes of names of towns laid it down that preference must be given to original native names.. He therefore asked students of Maori history to give consideration to this aspect of the matter.

University Office Building. A three-story reinforced concrete building, the contract price for which is approximately £25,000. is to be erected for the University of New Zealand in Mowbray Street, near Parliament Buildings, Wellington. The decision to proceed with the erection of the building was made at a meeting of the Senate of the University yesterday. Up to the present the New Zealand University has been administered from a suite of offices in Wellington, but has never had a real home of its own. A proposal to erect suitable offices in some central situation in the city has been discussed for years, but no definite step has been taken till recently. Anglican Cathedral. The latest decision of the Anglican Diocesan Centennial Committee is that, subject to world conditions permitting; the foundation-stone of the new Wellington Cathedral will be laid in 1942. as Wellington's part in the Bishop Selwyn Centenary. The report of the committee laid before lhe Diocesan Synod yesterday stated that the amount of money in sight for building the cathedral, apart from income from investments and the site, was about £120,000. less the value of the late Sir F. R. Chapman's property at Eccleston Hill, purchased by the diocesan trustees to provide a deanery near the cathedral: £6250 was paid for the property. The cathedral funds were slated to amount to £129,646, less £78.206 for the site, mortgages, transfer of properties and architect's fees and expenses. This left £51,440 available for building. J Primary and Secondary Industries. The opinion that industrial development was not opposed to primary interests, as in many cases they were related, that New Zealand had need of both and that its progress depended on the expansion of both, was expressed by the manufacturers' representative on the Bureau of Industry, Mr C. M. Bowden, formerly of Masterton, in an address on "The Place of Manufacturing Industries in New Zealand's Economy" to the Wellington branch of the Economic Society of Australia and New Zealand last night, industries provided employment for many thousands who could not. find it on the land, but who were also consumers of the produce of the land. Mr Bowden said. Nearly one-third of the gross farming income was derived from sales within New Zealand: Australia absorbed nearly three-quarters of the total farming I production. The harmonious development of primary and secondary industries would make a well-balanced eco-|. nomy on broad and stable foundations.