LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 January 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Heat in Masterton. In Masterton yesterday afternoor g- 88.3 degrees of heat were registered ir the shade. ~ Successful Cattle Drive. ; The proceeds of the recent cattle drive in aid of the Napier fund oi £ 15.000 for the £ 1.000.000 patriotic e appeal amounted to £1361. and a lS | cheque for this amount has been handjed over. There are still further cattle { to be sold when opportunity arises, as : well as sales of sheep to the freezing J companies. The Napier fund now stands at £5084. and the Hastings fund at £13.142. Work Proceeding Smoothly. Work continued smoothly yesterday in the Auckland Farmers’ Freezing Company’s two cool stores on the waterfront when the new men employed on Saturday to replace those •• who were dismissed for refusing to n work on Sunday put out sufficient D butter and cheese to meet full requirer ments. A meeting of union members 1 at the Westfield freezing works apt. pointed delegates to attend a meeting i of former cool store employees. The e meeting was adjourned until today, Home Guard Activities. * Mr A. L. Hibbs, who has been appointed Masterton group commander of the Home Guard, which includes E.P.S. men for drilling purposes, will attend a refresher course at Foxton prior to the next parade of the guard on Thursday, January 16. An instructional class for n.c.o’s. will be held on Tuesday, January 14. Captain W. R. Birch. Wairarapa area commander of the Home Guard, has already attended a refresher course.

Men Leave for Camp. The Masterton Railway Station presented a busy sight yesterday when nearly 200 men for overseas and Territorial training left the district. There' were large crowds present to see the men depart for camp. A large party lof men for Waiouru. where a three' months' training course will be held.: ' left by the north-bound morning train, j lin the afternoon men for Trentham I and Burnham camps left by the! I southward mail train, and in the even-j ■ ing men for Papakura went by mil-. car. Banknote Found. The visitor to Napier who pair over a £5O note under the impression that itj was a 10s note is now congratulating • himself on having narrowly escaped; being permanently parted from his! worldly wealth. It appears that he was! "celebrating his holiday," and inadver-i tently parted with the banknote. Hi was handed out as change to an Air' Force man. who received a shock on his I return to Wigram when he discovered his sudden accession of wealth. The; matter was reported to the police, and; the note has now been restored to its! rightful owner. Duty Free Gifts for Airmen. provision has been made by Order-in-Council at Ottawa for the entry duty-free of gifts to members of the armed forces in Canada, according to a statement made yesterday by the Minister of Defence. Mr Jones. The gifts which would be admitted free of duty, Mr Jones explained, included tobacco, but not alcoholic beverages. Gifts of tobacco would be limited in any one case to 200 cigarettes. 50 cigars, and 21b of manufactured tobacco. The Collector of Customs in Canada is required to satisfy himself I in each case concerning the bona-I tides of the recipient and the fact that! the goods are actually donated to him ! personally. This announcement, said: the Minister, would no doubt be of! great interest to relatives and friends’ of Air Force personnel training inj Canada under the Empire training | scheme. Air Passenger Traffic. .Air passenger traffic during the| Christmas and New Year holiday sea-] son. from December 20 to January 2.1 showed an increase in volume com- ! pared with that for the corresponding f period last year in the traffic both to I Wellington from the nortn and southl and from Wellington to other parts! I of New Zealand linked by Union Air--ways and Cook Strait Airways. The! [greater increase in business was shown! in the passenger traffic from Welling-; ton outward, 67 mon* passengersl ; travelling this holiday season than;' for the corresponding season last year . ' Of this number, 49 represented the}j increase in passengers travelling from! 1 I Wellington to Nelson and Blenheim.j * I There was a slight decrease in the}' Inumbers who travelled from Welling-1* | ton northward, that is, to Palmerston; 1 North. New Plymouth and Auckland. ■ I the three stops, on Union Airways'! northern service