LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 February 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

, National Patriotic Fund. The National Patriotic Fund has now reached £ 165.533. Wanganui Collegiate School. Wanganui Collegiate School has a roll this year of 310 pupils, of whom I 248 are boarders. The number j year is slightly more than last, and | the school is full. More pupils were offering than could be accommodated. Dunedin Bequests. Under the will of the late Mr Fred-j erick Peake Jago. salesman £5OO is I left to the New Zealand Alliance for! the Abolition of the Liquor Traffic! and £250 to the Salvation Army in New Zealand. The Otago Early Settlers' Association. Congregational Church, Children's Rest Home. Crippled Children Society, and R.S.A.. all of Dunedin, are left £5OO each. Use of Hydatids Tablets. Instances of dogs having died as a result of the use of arcealine hydrobromide for the eradication of hydatids were reported to the monthly meeting of the Hawke's Bay Countj Council by the inspector. Mr G. R. Beachamp, who said some owners of dogs would not use the tablets and the value of the Government's scheme therefore suffered. The council decided to inform the Government authorities. Reduced Air-Mail Postage. The Postmaster-General t the Hon. : P. C, Webb) announced today that the 9d concession rate on air-mail letters for members of the British armed forces serving overseas has now been extended to letters addressed to members of the British mercantile marine. It is emphasised that the concession applies only to letters not exceeding half-an-ounce forwarded by the Empire air service via .Australia. "Air Raid” Shelter on Fire.

Masterton's "air raid” shelter, which had previously suffered in the gale on Sunday, was yesterday afternoon the scene of an outbreak of tire. It is beI lieved that a lighted cigarette dropped | down from the window above ignited I a bag of sawdust, with which the shelter is built. The Masterton Fire Brigade received the call at 4.13 p.m. and one machine and its crjw turned out. No damage was done beyond the burning of a bag of sawdust. Not For Sale. The yacht Te Rapunga. in which Captain George Dibbern and Miss Eileen Morris, Napier, have been cruising the Pacific for the past five or six years and in which they recently returned to Napier, is not for sale, an offer by Mr H. Ward, Auckland, having been rejected. Captain Dibbern regards the j yacht as his home, though at present she is lying at Nelson Quay, Port I Ahuriri, under the watch of the Customs Department, which is awaiting a decision about her future. Sentences for Subversion. The seriousness of imperilling, by subversive propaganda. the lives of men serving in the forces was referred to by Mr Justice Johnston in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, when sentencing Edward Harrison, aged 4-1. janitor at Weir House, to the maximum term of 12 months' hard labour. Harrison was found guilty last week of being in " possession of six copies of the "Tribune,” described as successor to the "People's Voice." and three copies of "Peace and Socialism.” with a view to facilitating the distribution of subversive statements. Dominion Chief Scout. The new Governor-General. Sir. Cyril Newall. has been appointed! Dominion Chief Scout and patron of: the Scout Movement in New Zealand. Advice to this effect has been received! by the Dominion Headquarters of th movement. Wellington, from Imperial: Headquarters. London. When he at-- 1 cepted the position. Sir Cyn! said he! was most grateful for the invitation. He promised to do everything in his I power to assist the movement in the I Dominion. The ofl'iees of Dominion! Chief Scout, and patron, were former-1 ly held by Lord Galway. I ( Scheme 13 Workers. i * "lhe bull-. i,f the men remaining " n j J scheme 13 are mon- than 5(1 years of' ; age. and capable of giving good ser-H vice, and the Government is calling}] I on them to go to jobs where their ser-1, I vices are needed most.” .-aid the Min-1. istcr of Labour, Mr Webb, when dis- : * | cussing the number of men which I , i could be safely withdrawn from Wai- 1 i makarlri River protection work Since! the outbreak of war New Zealand's: j J manpower had been rediieed enor- ! ■ ' mously, Mr Webb --aid This meant! ■that .ill men left mm! lie prepared te 1 I undertake employm.-nt <-f a uam.nal ! I character, and im.-n would m,w b<- sup-l r I plied i-n j'.bs where '.hev Were needed ’ :I r

Coloured Crossings. As permanent crowing indicators tin i painted designs on roads a; street 1 intersections in Wellington have no'; jbeeii a success The markings had an' {extremely limited i.fe ; articularly ..- | the winter, when the r..in and a e< rj tain wash of street dirt under iratlic. | soon obliterated the design. leaving; {nothing but a blurred foundati.'-n ; • which could pot be -eon 10 yards awav j For this reason the city engineer. Mi I i.tike, hit on tlte idea of crossings of; j 1 brightlv-coloured I'licre-.e Tin- ex-; poriments imnie m Willis Sti vct .md : {'.he beginning of Ciist<>m!iou<c Qu.i> ' i • across WiHcNtnn Slreut) were conoid-■ ' j V.h*it Wis r* Hl S! deffd -f* • L» d<» so. The lab -t one !<• be eon- ’ i ■f'*! Cuba T-ri-m’'