LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 December 1940, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Dear Lettuces. Lettuces were very dear in Wellington on Saturday.' The best were 8d each (retail), and inferior sorts from 4d to 7d each. Donations Acknowledged. The Country District Sub-Centre Red Cross Society, desires to thank the following donors:—Parcels, Kopuranga Women’s Institute, Gladstone Women’s Institute, Whareama School children; material, Messrs Krahagen and Chapman, Mrs. Wildish; black fleeces, Messrs. McLean Bros., John Andrew and A. C. Gawith. Waterside Worker Drowned. Falling into Lyttelton harbour from a wharf on Saturday, Thomas Walton, waterside worker, aged 29, was drowned. Mr. Walton was sitting on a tarpaulin at the edge of the wharf during the dinner hour when he slipped and fell between the wharf and a ship’s side. Rescuers were lowered into the ‘water but Mr. Walton had sunk. His body has not been recovered.

Five Days Without Food. An elderly man, Mr. Michael Barry, who wandered away from Waipukurau District Hospital five days before, clad only in pyjamas, was discovered in an old tin whare about a mile from' the hospital on a back-country road. Mr, Barry had had no food since leaving the hospital, subsisting on water. His only covering was a couple of old sacks. Nearly Twice Quota Raised.

The Waipukurau district has made a magnificent reply to the £1,000,000 patriotic appeal. The district’s quota was £2275, and the amount raised was £4120. The chief source of this result was a queen carnival, in which there were four candidates: Miss Cherrie Raymond (Air Force). Miss Decima Ormond (Army), Miss Alice Marra • Navy), and Miss Hine Kuru (Maori Battalion). The result of the voting was: Miss Raymond, 104.469 (£1305); Miss Ormond, 98.165, (£1227); Miss Marra. 61.786 (£772); Miss Kuru, 56, 755 (£709). Physical Fitness. Contradicting assertions made in northern centres that the general average physical capacity of the young men of New Zealand had gone down badly since the last war, an Invercargill doctor said on Saturday that the insults of the medical examination of men called up in the first and second territorial ballots disproved this. The chief fact to be taken into consideration when contrasting the physical standard of 1914-18 and now. he said, was that the last war examination was not nearly so strict as now. The men for this war were being put through tests never given last time.