LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 January 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

! Medical Board Sitting. A sitting of the Medical Board was held in Masterton this morning. Recruits for overseas and Territorial service were examined. Territorial Parade. A full parade of all units of the Ist' Hawke's Bay Regiment is called for 7' p.m. tomorrow. Dress —full web and gaiters. The parade will finish in time; to enable men to attend the Air Raid Dance. j Hags over Queen Street. Flags showing the position of the j candidates in the Queen Carniva l ■ would be flown on the Academy Build- i ing (Pithcr's)* Queen Street, it was reported at the meeting of the Masterton Patriotic Committee last night. Mrs, Ji. G. Alexander and Miss M. Diggins were to make the flags and Mr. H. E. Pither had undertaken to supervise the; flying of them. No Response to Offer. No response has been made to the} oiler of a Wellington resident to help' with any form of farming in Ute Wai-I roa district for three weeks without i wages as a means of assisting the war! effort. The secretary of the Wairoa ; Young Farmers' Club. Mr W. G.{ Brownlie, who handled the offer, said I he was disgusted with the lack of response. and he had had to send the following telegram: "Your generous offer widely publicised. Elicited no response. Writing." A Long-lived Cat. In a very small bar-room of a very small Nelson hotel is a cal which is not very small and not very young. In fact, when the troops returned from the Great War “Nigger” was a lively black kitten. It is now twenty-two years old. and recently broke a longj period of retirement from hunting byj catching a mouse: it was never much} good at the game, and is reputed to I know all the rats of the neighbourhood! by name. Sixuennyworth of mince is; ...111 : .. , ... ... . I

still its daily ration, and most of it: non-eating time seems to be spent ir snoozing on the floor or in a chair. i Australian Manufactures. Some of the outstanding new items now made in Australia are aircraft, aeroplane engines, insulated rubber I cables, chrome chemicals, bichromate of soda and potash motor tyre cord, caffeine, magnesium chloride, canvas and tenting duck, toys, cellulose, stainless steels, aluminium ingots, steel tubing, bicycle parts and machine tools. There are hundreds of others. It now takes an 8d()-page book for the Australasian Manufacturers' Directory to list the articles made in Australia and the firms which make them. House Names. 1 Maori names are given to many ■ houses in New Zealand, but some of ' them are most unsuitable when trans- ! lated into English. Happily, most of ! the householders who proudly mis- ■ name their homes are ignorant of the i errors they commit. In Forfar Street, St. Albans, Christchurch, a resident has run no risks with the Maori tongue, and has evolved an original name—"Emoh Ruo." At first sight this looks like a native name, but anyone who’ has heard the tale of the hotel guest in Wales, who asked the meaning! i of the “Welsh’ ’inscription, "lam hlab."; ■ on the bathroom floor, will soon transj late the house’s name. I Motoring in Egypt. I Conditions for motoring widely dif-! i ferenl from tlio-e in New Zealand were, I reported in letters received from mem-1 I bvrs of the armed forces in Egypt by , i the Automobile .Association (Auek-j 1 land). While reporting that benzine ■was Is lOd a gallon, one motorist said; ho did not think that cheap consider-1 i ing the nearness of the supply. The] ; benzine was transported to the campj I in HO or 100-gallon drums carried on' I carts drawn by donkcy.-i or mules. An- : ether writer expressed his admiratii n ■ 'of the work of drivers on the road - | ■which were deep in dust ami !<-ad .through rock and gu'ffies, in their pas-| ■ rage across the desert. I Five Maoris Injured. A car owned by Mr Richard Mach. | a Maori living at Tahoraili. and driven! Ibv David .Mihaere, travelling in tb.e I direction "f Dannevirke <.n Sunday' ■evening, skidded near Te Rehumta

■ bridge, and turner! two and a half ! somersaults, coming to rest acr s i wire fence. The driver and (our olhe. . occupants wer thrown on to the r. a i ] through the roof, and th<> sixth ■ rem ! pant, a girl, crawled out of the car afa : .it had come to rest. Five young p?- ;d". al! Maoris, were admitted to the Da’.iwv<rke li 'p.ta! They are David hitere. aped 15 years, hi ad i: jur:< Wil on I’ai wai. aged 10. injured head. {face and right leg: Albert Cannon He ii lined 10. head injuries amt •Ik ■■ ! Daphne Maaka. ags d 14 injur .<■ ' ■ tin face and head: and Agnes Fleyii a, e. Li. a bra.'/'’■.•■ ()h\'er Mar-n a ;• ■ a ; man. was hurled 15 yards mW a pad- , dock, but escaped itijm Canning of Mutton. Mr R S Th'unpsun O',;o>u pr<wm- i Icial preside--,' <>f the Ne-.v -m ■ Farmers’ I’nwii. has ;i ddre -.ed a !< tt. . the Min ter • t A|- rieullute ... •.■ ■ • ■■>■-■ 'he d Lc.ilts ■ ! eXi :!.!:■■' ?!• .*• a mutton and laiiih'f: -m th.-; D m.t.. n Will II? ■ ’. Ili.elv lie t.regie-- ;\el'. - rentuate : Vi le ■ remedial mbahdr.'- i illm:: f- r eXj? : ! V, 11 li. '.e ther C mirr’.