LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 December 1940, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Medical Board Sitting. Another sitting of the Medical Board will be held at the Masterton Drill Hall at 10 a.m. next Thursday. This sittingi will complete the examination of men drawn in the second ballot for Territorial service.

Chess Championship. The champion of champions tourney conducted annually by the Wellington Chess League resulted this year in a victory for Mr., A. W. Gyles (Karori), who scored the possible six points. This is Mr. Gyles’s thirteenth win in 18 years. German Goods on Sale. A few lines of German goods are still on the market in Napier, though the British blockade has now been in force for 15 months. This indicates the large stocks of German goods that must have been on hand in Britain and in New Zealand at the outbreak of war. Centennial Exhibition of Art. The Centennial Exhibition of New Zealand art which is on display at the Municipal Hall was well patronised at the evening session yesterday. Many people are taking advantage of the opportunity of seeing the display before it closes on Wednesday. Founders’ Society. At the annual meeting of the New Zealand Founder’s Society it was decided by resolution to have the society registered under the Incorporated Societies’ Act, 1908. It was found on inquiry that it was necessary to gain the consent of a majority of the members of the society before incorporation could be effected. That consent is now being sought. Alleged Theft. < Phyllis Olive Barnett, aged 31, clerk, was charged in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court yesterday that on December 6, 1939, she stole £BOO belonging to Mary Cochran Baird and others. The police obtained a remand till December 12. Bail was allowed in accused’s own surety of £4OO and two others of £2OO each.

Blind in New Zealand. The total number of blind cases throughout the Dominion registered at the New Zealand Institute for the Blind has increased to 1,190. The roll of the institute has risen from 177 to 208, detailed figures being: Workshops 101, tuition 8, staff 16, school children 36, visitors 2, elderly men —Bledisloe House 28, elderly women —Hutchinson Home 9, elderly tuition classes 16 —8 of whom are in the workshops 8; total 208. This shows a very large increase, and indicates that the blind people generally are making very much greater use of the facilities of the Institute.

Footwear Industry and the War. The urgent need for training operatives for the footwear and allied trades was stressed by Mr. H. Edwards, chaiiman of the Auckland Footwear Manufacturers’ Association, in supporting appeals affecting 104 men employed by 35 companies before the Auckland Area Manpower Committee last night. Mr. Edwards said the establishment ol training schools had been suggested to the Government, but so far not.ung had been done in this respect. As so many men had been called up in industry the question of staffing was becom ing very serious. Mr. Edwards said u till some system of training F el ?., Ll ± ti for service overseas was T t c appeals would have to be made. i trained men could not be put on o machines at five minutes’ notice.