LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 January 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Frost in Masterton. A frost of 3.8 degrees was registered in Masterton yesterday morning. Christmas Bowling Tournament. In a final which lasted only 18 ends the Lyall Bay four skipped by Hazelwood won the Wellington Christmas fours bowling tournament from the Kelburn four skipped by Blighting, 26-12. The game for third prize between the runners-up was won by the Hataitai four skipped by Wellings'

New Zealand Chess Congress, The Chess Congress advanced a further stage at Timaru yesterday, hi the championship the results were:— Seventh round: Dr. Bennett (Otago) beat Ncwrick (Auckland), P. Allerhand (Wellington* beat Vincent. R. Wade (Wellington) beat C. Lennard (Auckland). Eighth round: Bennett beat Vincent. Points at the end of the seventh session: Wade 6. Allerhand 51. Bennett 3i. Ncwrick 3. M.P. to Enter Camp.

Abandoning his annual cycling tour of various j arts of the Dominion, the Speaker of the House of Represem tatives and member for Napier fthc Hon. W. E. Barnard), will enter camp at Waiouru next Monday, Mr Barnard, who is a veteran of the Great War, will enter camp with ttw rank uf sergeant and wiil be attached to Second Hawke's Bay Infantry Battalion during its three months' course of training. Crooning Condemned. Crooning was roundly condemned by Dr, C. Edgar Ford when addressing the Rotary Club in Auckhmd. He described the practice as positively either vulgar or stupid, or both. "A | crooner, ’’ he said, "represents the lowI est type of intellect outside a lunatic asylum. Some people, presumably, like crooning: otherwise it would be dis-; continued. Of course, it is passible that some sentimental and benevolent’ old lady has endowed crooning on Onground that village idiots throug'mu!, I the world have not been suitably, cot- > I cred for by the broadcasting corp >ra-: ' lions." I I Problem Children. ’ Tiie Canterbury Education Board ! had applied to '.he Education Depart- ; Jment for the appointment of <i fuilyi tained psychologist to investigide the < j needs of problem children, it was , , ported al a meeting of the board, but ; the department had rej>!;e<! that it p:e--i ferted to take no immediate aclmn tin-1 I til other classes of himdicapped child-1 Iren whose claims fur special assistance j ' were reku.vely more urgent liad beer. 'lb - department _ also ’ idv ‘n. a I that the Director of f.dmmm-u - - - U. E. Bceby> would be plem. d discuss the whole question • n I'm nex visit te Christchurch