LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 November 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fine Border of Lupins. A particularly fine border of Russell lupins is to be seen in the garden of Mr J. Connell, 25 College Street. Masterton. The lupins have been grown from imported seed and contain a wide variety of colours of great beauty. A Beach Tragedy. While bathing on the North Beach yesterday, Alfred John Caldwell, aged 26, second youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. William Patrick Caldwell, was drowned. Mr. Caldwell was formerly a wellknown cyclist and represented Buller in Maher Cup competitions. He was also a Buller Rugby representative. Beautiful Rose Gardens. Visitors to Masterton for the Wairarapa Interhouse Association's sports day yesterday commented very favourably on the magnificent blooms in the park rose gardens. The roses are in full bloom and make a splendid display. Tennis Tournament. The tournament which was to have been held on Saturday and over the weekend will now be held next Saturday. Play will commence promptly at 1.30 p.m. All competitors are required to attend at that time and anyone able to play is requested to communicate with the secretary, Mr. J. C. Corbishley at the Masterton Courthouse. Home Guard. A meeting of the Home Guard, including members of the committee and all those who have enlisted or are thinking of enlisting in the guard, is to be held in the Social Hall, Municipal Buildings, on Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Colonel R. St. Beere, District Commander, and, it is hoped, MajorGeneral Young, Dominion Commander, will be present at the meeting. Conscientious Objectors.

In the first ballot for Territorial service 186 men were affected by appeals filed with the Manawatu Manpower Committee, and the grounds for appeal were conscientious objection in only six cases. In the second ballot there have been 308 men affected by appeals, but in 48 cases on this occasion conscientious objection to military service is the ground of appeal. These appeals are to be heard by an Armed Forces Appeal Board. Miners and the War.

A decision to advise the Director of National Service that there was definite evidence that full time from bank to bank was not being worked in the mines, that there was an undue percentage of absentees, and that the coal situation was desperate with regard to supplies was reached by the Hamilton Manpower Committee after evidence had been heard regaiding conditions of work in the Waikato coal •nines The Director of National Service. Mr. J. S. Hunter, and the mine managers, appealed on behalf of 41 workers employed in the Waikato collieries and carbonisation works who had been called up for military duties. The committee agreed that it could not see its way to release any of the mine workers for military sei vice, and it. recommended that the Government should make a thorough investigation into the position relating to the work being done in the mines.