LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 February 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cricket Matches Postponed. On account of the wickets being unfit to play on as a result of the rain, all the Wairarapa Cricket Association’s fixtures set down for today have been postponed. I Power Board District. An alteration to the boundaries of the Wairarapa Electric Power Board’s district is defined in this week’s "Gazette." An area in Mauriceville County is now included in the board’s area. Intercession Services. The Masterton Ministers’ Association will commence public services of intercession on Wednesday, March 5, in St. Matthew’s Church. This year the various churches of the town will be used for the purpose of holding these services. Free Lighting for Parades. The Tararua Power Board, at its meeting at Pahiatua yesterday, decided to install and provide free flood lighting to aScas where a Home Guard platoon is formed. Approximately 25 parade grounds will be so equipped in this district. The staff will give time free for this work. Women Herd Testers. In order to fill vacancies resulting from the present military situation women herd testers are required throughout New Zealand. Steps have been taken to ensure the training of approved applicants, who will receive a course of instruction at Massey College. commencing on February 27. Guilty of Negligent Driving. Arthur Percy Ford, also known ns Ivory, was found guilty in the Christchurch Supreme Court yesterday on a charge that on November 5 he negligently drove a motor car on Travis Road. Burwood, thereby causing the death of two young women. Margaret Mary Collins and Hazel Lenore Dando. | Prisoner was remanded for sentence, i Cakes for Soldiers. The fact that all tins containing ; cakes sent from Hastings to men over-1 seas were soldered to ensure that they I were air-tight was mentioned bv the Mayor ’(Mr. G. A. Maddison) at a meeting of the Hastings Patriotic Zone Committee. “It is an enormous work, but it ensures that the goods reach the soldiers in splendid condition." he said. It was stated that tins sent from some I other centres were .sealed with adhe- ■ sive tape and paper, resulting in the | contents being mouldy when they; reached their destination.

Road Closed for Repairs. A statement that the Ngahauranga Gorge Road was to be closed over the week-end for repairs, and that in the meantime the public would be required to use the alternative routes, was made yesterday by the Minister of Transport. Mr Seinpel. after an inspection of the road. The Minister of Public Works. Mr Armstrong, said that though one side of the road was usable now, it was desired to keep traffic off to avoid any risk of danger to the travelling public, and also to allow the maximum amount of work to be done in the least possible time.

Railway Finance. Returns of railway revenue and expenditure for 40 weeks of the current financial year and for the four-weekly period from December 8 to January 1. were given yesterday by the Minister of Railways. Mr Semple. He said the net revenue for the four weeks amounted to £191.932. The gross revenue for the period reached the high total of £878.326. being £74.534 greater than the receipts of last year’s relative period, while the expenditure of £686,394 was only £33.320 more than was incurred during the tenth period of the past financial year. For the 40 weeks from the beginning of April, the net revenue was £1.030.728. which was over £500.000 more than the net income earned during the present year's equivalent period. Brothers Acquitted.

A verdict of not guilty to both charges was returned by the jury tn the Supreme Court. Wellington, yesterday afternoon in the case of Gordon Frederick ?dilk-r. ageci 27. motor driver, and David Hugh Miller, aged 37, clerk, who appeared before Mr Justice Johnston on charges of unlawful conversion of n car valued al £lOO. the property of James Baxter, in Wellington. on January I!, 1941, and of wilful damage to the ear to the extent of £lOO. The prosecution alleged that the two accused had first unlawfully converted the car and had then wilfully allowed u fall over a bank below Hornsey R>>ad. Lyall Bay. The defence was that the two accused had been at the locality' of the smash by chance, and that the Crown had not produced sufficient evidence to show that they had b. n guilty of either olTence. in the wilnesbox David Hugh Miller said that hi ] had seen a man and a woman in the! [ear just before its fall down the bank.,; [but that when, with his brother and: I others, he had readied the wrecked; | car, the couple were nowhere to lx I seen. I i "