LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 February 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Relief of Distress. .Mr G. T. O'Hara Smith.. Treasurer of the London Relief of Distress Fund. acknowledges receipt of .£36 7s 3d. per Mr T. H. Peet, being the proceeds of a dance held at Blairlogie in December in aid of that fund.

Hawke’s Bay Regiment Parade. The first parade of the year of the First Battalion. Hawke's Bay Regiment, will be held on Monday evening at 7.30 o'clock at the Masterion Drill Hall. Dress will be full equipment and gaiters. Sailing Contest. The Wellington crew won the first race in the interprovincial Idle Along sailing contest at Lyttelton yesterday. West Coast made a good showing in the early part of the race, but did no good later when a strong south-wester-ly came up. Nelson finished second after a very creditable performance and Canterbury were third. Fire at Freezing Works. A fire did about .£2OO worth of damage to drying and locker-rooms accommodating men's working clothing at Tomoana freezing works yesterday. No serious damage was done to the j vital portion of the works. The fire! apparently started in a drying-room on; the top Floor of the main building. This> room is used for drying workers'! clothes by means of steam pipes. Negligent Driving. A fine of £lO and disqualification from obtaining a driver’s licence for a period of five years wore imposed at the Timaru Supreme Court yesterday, on Anthony John Johns, tractor driver.! Ashburton, who had pleaded guilty I and appeared for sentence on a chargej of having negligently driven a car. i thereby causing death.

Sly Grog Seller Sent to Gaol. In the Timaru Supreme Court yesterday. Archibald John Templeton, Ashburton, pleaded guilty to five charges of having sold liquor without a licence. The case had been set down for trial but accused altered his plea. Accused was sentenced to three months' gaol on each charge, the sentences to be cumulative.

N.C.O. Classes. The n.c.o. classes of the Home Guard; and E.P.S. unit paraded at the Drill i Hall last night when instruction in! Lewis and Vickers machine guns was! given by n.c.o.’s of the First Battalion. | Hawke's Bay Regiment. It is intended , to give the younger members of the| Home Guard special training under the direction of the Hawke's Bay Regiment's n.c.o.’s Attempted Murder Charge.

At the criminal session of the Dunedin Supreme Court which commenced yesterday the grand jury returned a true bill against William Meehan Oamaru. on a charge of attempted murder at Oamaru of George Robert Edwards and Frederick Henry McAuley. Accused was also charged with committing bodily harm with a rifle. Tito trial of accused was then commenced. the evidence given being similar to that in the lower court.

Salvationist's Appeal Dismissed. Appearing in a Salvation Army bandsman’s uniform. Herbert Roy Dutton aged 23. insurance agent, appealed on the ground of conscientious objection before the No. 4 Armed Forces Appeal Board in Wellington yesterday. j He said he had been a local officer and bandsman for six years and engaged in young people's and bands' work. 1-Ie was prepared to devote his whole time to the Salvation Army for the; duration of the war. The appeal was! dismissed. Beer for Troops. i New Zealand troops in the Middle; I East will shortly receive the largest.’ individual consignment of beer ever; shipped from this country. .An order; for 22.000 dozen quarts —representing I 41.000 gallons—of ale was filled and! dispatched for New Zealand troops j serving overseas. The magnitude ofj such an order may be better realised| from the fact that to send the order, from Auckland to Wellington by rail! required an entire goods train consist-! ling of 80 trucks. The ale. which was 1 packed in cartons and boxes, amounted! |to a total weight of 440 tons. The! I brewing of the 22.000 dozen quarts re-1 quired over 2000 bushels of malt and; 11001 b of hops. This record shipment, was bottled, packed and dispatched! j within 48 hours. j The New Comet. j Tile name of Mi- R. A Mclntosh, an. I I amateur astronomer of .Auckland. will) ; be sent overseas as the New Zealand) • discoverer of the new comet, said Mri I M, Geddes, director of the Carter Ob-! I servatory Wellington, the national! | astronomical observatory, in a state-: iment yesterday. Mr Geddes, said no; official advice had yet been received from overseas reporting the discovery ; of the comet, but Press reports <-stab-' lished that a Melbourne amateur astro-’ nomer. Mr J. F Skjrllerup. hail local-! ed it four days before Mr Mclntosh ■ I The new comet was still moving at a I tremendous rale and was well within . j 20.000.000 miles of the earth and pro- ! j babiv as close as 10 (M X ) 000 and coining) el er, ho said That was very close fo, I a cornel and indicated that it was not; I really a very large comet.