LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Boring for Oil. The New Zealand Petroleum Company reports that good progress has been made during the past fortnight. At the Morere bore drilling has reached a depth of 4925 feet in cretaceous formation. At Midhurst the bore is down to 2380 feet. Measles in Military Camp. Hospital accommodation in Dannevirke is now fully taxed with 46 measles patients from the territorial camp. Arrangements have been made to admit future cases to Waipukurau Public Hospital. The cases are mostly mild. Contrast Collection. Those who have not yet inspected the contrast collection of pictures now on exhibition in the Masterton Municipal Hall should make a point of doing so either today or tomorrow, as the exhibition will close tomorrow night. Quite a number of people have visited the hall during the past week, including many school parties. Gale in Wellington. A high wind from the north-west blew in Wellington yesterday. It rose considerably toward noon, attaining 70 miles an hour in the gusts, and bringing with it intermittent drizzling rain. Late last night it had moderated considerably. Though little damage was done, beyond a few windows blown out, and a telegraph pole blown over in Abel Smith Street, gardens and flowering shrubs suffered. Action Against Traitors. “Should trouble come to New Zealand prompt action would be taken against traitors such as were present at Monday night’s Home Guard meeting,” said Mr Semple at Christchurch yesterday. Mr Semple said the people of Christchurch had a very bad gang in their midst. The challenge of the traitors’ sneers at the Home Guard meeting would be accepted and the kind of treatment necessary would be meted out at the' psychological moment. Control of Aliens. Regulaions gazetted last night provide for the appointment of regional alien authorities to deal with cases of aliens in the districts under their control, and for the appointment of an aliens appeal tribunal to hear appeals against the recommendations of these authorites. The members of the present Aliens Tribunal will become the Appeal Tribunal. Immediate steps are to be taken to appoint the regional authorities.

Big Losses Caused by Disputes. The year had been comparatively free from serious disputes, but unfortunately there had been several, particularly in the Waikato district, which led to substantial losses of both wages and output and which arose from altogether trivial causes, said the president of the New Zealand Coal Mine Owners’ Association, Mr C. C. Davis, at the annual meeting of the association in Wellington yesterday. The association had done everything possible to provide machinery for settling disputes, but in spite of all efforts these difficulties had arisen, Mr Davis said. National Savings Scheme. An immediate extension of the national savings scheme whereby the bonds will be sold by the trading banks, in addition to the Post Office, was announced last night by the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash. He said that when the scheme was first drawn up, it was intended to operate it through the Post Office organisation, and in four centres —Auckland, New Plymouth, Dunedin and Invercargill—where the trustee savings banks were operating, through these institutions also. Since then, however, the six trading banks operating in New Zealand had offered their services for the sale of National Savings Bonds, an/ offer that the Government was very pleased to accept. It was expected that by the end of this week bonds would be available from all branches of the trading banks within New Zealand. Art Union Winners. Eight employees in a Dunedin foundry are richer by some hundreds of pounds each as the result of a small investment in the “Who’s Next?” art union, and, though the first prize of £2OOO has had to be divided among eight men, all of them are probably now convinced that they are not such “mugs” as their nom-de-plume “8 Mugs” would indicate. The winners are employed at Crittall Metal. Windows (New Zealand), Limited. Two of the men are father and son, and each of the winners is ma|rried. During winter months they and two others invested 3d every week in a football “pool,” and when the season ended they decided to spend their money on an art union ticket. Two, however, did not feel inclined to invest in this form of gamble, so that two of the eight left took a double share. They will receive £4OO each and the others six £2OO each. The winners prefer to remain anonymous so-far as the general public is concerned.