LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 January 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

j Flags Half Mast. j Flags were flown half mast on Gov- > ernment buildings in Masterion today I out of respect to the late Mr C. E. McMillan. of Tauranga. a former member of Parliament. Medical Board Sittings. Sittings of the medical board will j be held in Masterton on Tuesday and in Featherston on Wednesday and Thursday of next week. The board will examine recruits for the independent mounted rilles. Stolen Bag Recovered. The bag which was taken from the Masterton Women’s Baths on Wednesday afternoon was recovered -yesterday in a section in Victoria Street. Money in notes had been removed but a sum of loose silver, some small purses and rings wore loft untouched. Clouds of Dust. Two weeks without rain have converted the pumice roads in the Rotorga district to masses of fine powder which make motoring not only unpleasant. but. also difficult. Clouds of dust are seen to rise at times as motor cars speed over the roads. Back to Work. Dunedin factory workers have not shown signs of the dereliction of duty attributed to employees of the Christchurch clothing firm. Ross and Glendining report that only four or five of their 830 hands failed to turn up after the holidays, and Sargood. Son. and Ewen report that they had no absentees at al). Termite Pest and Local Bodies. Under the Termites Act (application order), 1940, appearing in the Gazette, four local authorities in Auckland and also the Now Plymouth Borough Council are empowered io act as inspectors and carry out other provisions of the Act passed last year io deal with the termite pest. This is the first application of the powers conferred bv the •Act. Import Restrictions. A former resident of Masterton, a doctor who has for many years lived: in America, and who last week re-; turned to New Zealand, states that as far as import restrictions are concern-i ed New Zealand has nothing to coin*! plain of in comparison with America.; where the restrictions are much more; severe than in the Dominion, and cover a far wider scope. Free French Flag at Piha. The claim that he is the first person - in New Zealand to fly General de Gaulle’s Free French flag is made by j Mr A. Forestier, a Frenchman who! lives at Piha and is caretaker of the I motor camp there. He says that he! deserted his ship when in New Zealand: waters over 25 years ago and joined the j Now Zealand Rifle Brigade. After the I war he returned to New Zealand to! live. Now his flag of Free France is i to be seen every day alongside the; Union Jack near his cottage in the' motor camp. Mr Forestier intends to write to General de Gaulle to tell him how the flag ho raised is flying in News Zealand, Woman Assaulted. The victim of an assault, a middle-j aged woman was found unconscious j on a beach below the seawall near; Point Jerningham. Wellington, yester-j day morning. She is in hospital seriously ill with head injuries and last; night had not regained consciousness. | A police investigation has begun. The' place whore the woman was found is j about 300 yards beyond the terminus| of the Oriental Bay tram line. Paths! lead down to the beach from the road, j which at that part is not brightly j lighted, and there are no houses near.; She was noticed by a man about 8.45 a.nt, The police were informed and: she was taken to hospital by the Free! Ambulance.

Soldier and Giri Rescued. A plucky rescue was carried out yesterday afternoon at Eastbourne by a seaman who swam several hundred yards through a heavy jobble to the aid of a soldier and a girl in distress in a dinghy. Bombardier Jone-.. of Fort Dorset, mid a young woman companion had gone for a raw in one of the small dinghies which may bo hired’ al Day's Bay, There was a strong i northerly blowing, and they wore observed from the beach to be in ditli-] culties. clinging to the boat, which' had upset or been swamped by the waves Oscar Strom a ■•v.mian fan a coastal freighter, and a strong xivittimer, fought his way nut to them! tnrongh the waves, a distance < f j.t y. : era! hundred yards,' and supported] them while two fishermen, J.and ] ]D< l;.i Droid io, t l.iunehtd a dinghy t I pulled iHit, and Rj night them a • I I hey ftlsu brought back site dinghy, ] ] Reserve Bank Control. l Mat-hint ry dauses cover,ng the fiH-j ing of the gap in the achnmi-’trotrod ; of the Reserve Bank til! the apjxdntI meat of a new governor are set cut hi I I lite Reserve Batik Emergency Ifoguln-i pions, 1940. gazetted last nigh* The I regulations provide that an neting-d governor may be appointed if a vac- j liivy arises in the office of guvronotj and tin acting deputy-governor myyj i be nppom'.eJ m, Hmdiu* circumstances.’ Appointees will have the powers of the] | governor ant! deputy-governor rropro. ' > lively while ro acting, Such app. ini. ■ I !«<•.;!>, will !k> for a term of thro*. 1 month 1 :, but nrovi loti i-.: tn.ale for re- ’ ] appointment-: The rag ilntL-r :do ■ I -tale that th.- dep:;'v-governor ex i , ' lilt- I ,’AWI:: f p- ‘.i'l'ia-r if .. Vli-i I lU*V <: i Ui'l ' .ii the 'v .f ; m.‘C!Ti».>r I D . iL j -J • r M; W.,i • . ; mil. .mats ally oxero.ro ; ’!•<• i . <d Marketing of Hides. ' New ro .iid.i.ro a , miecti' U ’A Uh fl i11..’ I:' I hides wero giro’. last mghi The. ■ ifof?-’ which u ■•■'•.C'*.: in' ‘ March. I l a hj v, ei e : a- ed <>n ■ amp:; n that <a. r: pr.v old ■ e higher than ‘tial !. ■ d ■as the -: md.ird m.ro ■: .<• p-.. . •. iwh ' , tlil'li'- 1 - J''d ' hide' !i-<‘d •- r- : ' ~. ,■ .. j, . , I - ■< ■ .' : fill’, l .' ■:'■ I: . I d ’ . > • f ,< I Uro I ; >■' < d ■ ; t’s ■ i