LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 February 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Success at Flower Show. At the Hutt Valley Horticultural Show yesterday. Mr H. G. Smith, of Masterton, won three firsts and a second prize in gladioli. Failing to Stop Charge. Following ihe discovery of Mrs Ingrid Cook. Havelock North lying seriously injured on the road yesterday, Gilbert Mclnnes, aged 25, appeared in the Magistrates' Court. Hastings yesterday, on a charge of having failed to stop after an accident. He was remanded for a fortnight. Bail was fixed at £lOO. Airmail Postage Concession. The Postmaster-General. Mr Webb, announced last night that the 9d concession rate on airmail letters for members of the British armed forces serving overseas had now been extended to letters addressed to members of the British mercantile marine. The concession applied only to letters not exceeding half-an-ounce forwarded by the Empire air service via Australia. Efficacy of the Boycott. At a meeting in ihe Auckland Town Hal! concert chamber recently, a woman speaker caused a good deal of amusement by declaring her firm belief in the efficacy of the boycott. "When the price of sugar went up I stopped using it.” she stated, "and 1 can do without it now. When they told us that stockings were scarce, in order to engineer a rise. I gave up wearing them and you can see that I have none on tonight.” Tasman Shipping Service. The Wellington City Council last night decided to support representations to be made by the Chamber of Commerce to have passenger vessels plying between Now Zealand and Australia call at Wellington on alternate trips. At present such vessels go only to Auckland, "Every effort will be! made by the north to retain the ser--vices, and unless some strong action is l I taken Wellington will have no direct) passenger service while the war lasts,”) said Councillor M. F. Luckie. New Intermediate School. Palmerston North’s Intermediate School, which was declared open yesterday afternoon by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, is ranked with the bestdesigned and best-built structures ofi its kind in the Dominion. Twenty-fivej of the 27 classrooms are so arranged) that the school forms a broad U and. the remaining two are situated in the’ quadrangle where the metalwork and i woodwork shops will be least distract-) ing to studies elsewhere in the build-i ing. Each classroom is designed to ac-> commodate about 40 pupils. Young Swimmer’s Feat. A small girl. Rose Marie Raper ! aged two years and eight months, per-; formed a remarkably fine feat in the tepid baths. Auckland, this week by swimming the length of the pool, a distance of 33 I-3yds. She is lite youngest swimmer to gain a beginner's certificate in Auckland, if not in New Zealand. Rose Marie Raper is the daughter of Mr A. Raper, prominent Auckland backstroke swimmer, and Mrs Raper formerly Miss M. Bolton, Dunedin, recognised as one of the Dominion's most competent coaches of women swimmers. Remand in Murder Charge. A further remand to February 19 was granted by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., | when Leonard Neiling. labourer and) brushmaker, aged 29, appeared beforej him in the Magistrates' Conn, Wcl-I lington. yesterday, charged with the) murder of Marjory Livingston Horton. Mrs Horton died in the Wellington! Public Hospital three days after being)' found unconscious on the beach a’J: Point Jerningham on the morning oil) January 10. Neiling was subsequently arrested at Auckland and charged with)' a breach of probation, ami later with)' the murder of Mrs Horton. ( I Guilty of False Representation. A jury of 12 in the Supreme Court ) Wellington yesterday, found Anthony 1 Hoggard, merchant, aged 20. of Wei- ) lington. guilty of obtaining two bales ( of stockinette, valued at £125. from Bing. Harris and Co.. Ltd., with intent' to defraud by falsely representing that! l the bales were being purchased by R. ! Gapes and Co. Ltd. Wellington ’ was alternatively charged with re- 1 eeiving the two bales knowing them to' 1 i have been dishonestly obtained ’I he ’ jury, after a lengthy retirement, re-i’ I turned with a strong recommendation I I Ito mercy on account of accused’s I ' I youth. Prisoner was remanded for sen-p ' tence. ) j [A Black Out In Christchurch. :j j A complete failure of electric power! I ! covering the whole of Christchurch | * I and surrounding districts. Bank? ■ 'Peninsula and North Canterbury was) \ I caused last evening when a "Hash)'] lover" occurred on a string of insula-'; | tors at the mam substation at Adding-| r i ton The failure occurred at 847 p.rnJ j j and lasted for 18 minutes, the longest j total interruption of power in the); area for many years. In the city there! v | was a complete "black mil ” Tram traf-) x | lie was delayed while the failure la;-t-;s led. but fortunately u was a slack per-1 p Hod. ami within an hour norma! run-!; rung was restored. (July one train was ! r > ‘affected on the electrified Lyttelton ip ’line. There were minor delays ’>ox | goods trams - n the IMrriby Rolicitnn)< automatic signalling "system was a(-| ! C

(Mysterious Explosion Explained. I’he explanation •>< ;< mysterious cx-j | ph-mm which damaged a tram at Her-; [ hamj.H re in February a year ago heard m the Mage-n-.itr- (' if. ' hnjl‘<i!j yesterday A detective' , product'd a statement fr.un a youth of; J 19. confess mt- to having placed a p;u>k-<‘ I age of expheive un the ttamhne •jti.'.j. as a joke.” Lester John McDonnell Colpin. storeman ami - >ldier. aged 19 ‘‘ iph tided guilty to having ; laced an o rtnietinp oti the tramline namely ■ ; package ci plaining .. n ixxui <■ - f ; ■ . 1 j seam chlorate ,md sulpha! a ; 1; . 1S '• [ ner Idteb, cu.re daimiiy- m v;ihi- : ‘. pibh‘ property A detective disced ; ibo 111 e of pot as -i u tri r ; ' ■ j jilitir which hi !.>’<■<! had been fi tmcH ’ M' ’■o: ■ i .1 having been ' 0 ■ <■ i Him./o'.ii C-iilc;?- Mi J H r-i S M v.!: ■ 'he iie'u h lifted C<4lm to the S - C ■ hr!” 1