LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fatality at Mokihinui. William Stephen, aged 63. single was drowned in the Mokihinui River when a pontoon in use for conveying machinery over the river capsized. Stephen was a veteran of the South .African War. Gifts of Clothing. I The . Masterion Sub-Centre of the I Red Cross gratefully acknowledge gifts i of parcels of clothing from the following donors: —Miss Spink. Miss Chalmers. Mrs. Peter Neilson. Miss Chalmers (blanket). Mrs. Campbell-Herd. Mrs. Madsen. Mrs. Collie. Miss Price. Boy Struck by Car. When he stepped from the rail of the Ruamahanga Bridge at Tc Ore Ore yesterday into the path of a passing motor-car. a 14-year-old Maori boy Kahutia Paku received scalp and head injuries which were not serious, though he was conveyed to Masterton Hospital. The boy was reported, this morning to have passed a good night and his condition was satisfactory. Tree-Feller Killed. Struck by a tree during felling operations at Mataura on Saturday morning. George Anderson, single, about 64. Invercargill, was crushed and killed instantly. A workmate. George Murphy, Mataura, received a fractured left leg and was admitted to the Gore Hospital. Anderson was caught unawares when the tree slewed round and he was crushed against another trunk. Safety for Cyclists. “’Before going north next month. 1 should like to issue a warning to cyclists in general, and to parents of childcyclists in particular, about the practice of riding three abreast on main roads," said the North Island representative of the British and Continental Cyclists' Touring Club. “It is very unwise. especially at weekends when I motor traffic is heaviest. Any represen-j tations that have been made by eye-, lists’ organisations to the government | regarding the protection of their members have always been received with the utmost sympathy, but the Minister concerned is powerless if individual cyclists become careless of their road conduct. And,” he concluded, "it should never be necessary, in any British dominion. to comment on the folly of cyclists riding without lights." I Catholic Jubilee.

The silver jubilee celebrations of the Roman Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, the Most Rev. Dr. M, J. Brodie, began yesterday and will last three days. All members of the Hierarchy in the Dominion are attending, and more than 80 other clergy, including monsignori, attended from all parts of the Dominion at Solemn Pontifical High Mass which opened the celebrations. It was announced that Pope Pius XII. had sent a letter of congratulation and had conferred on Bishop Brodie the dignity of Bishop Assistant to the Papal Throne. Bishop Brodie himself was the celebrant of Mass, for which the cathedral was specially’ decorated. In the afternoon, as part of the jubilee celebrations, the foundation stone of the new St. Mary’s Church, Manchester Street, was laid by the Metropolitan of New Zealand. Archbishop O’Shea. Condition of Roads.

Commenting on the state of back roads in the Wairarapa. the North Island representative of the British and Continental Cyclists’ Touring Club mentioned that the West Taratahi road has very heavy ridges of metal dust. "Only yesterday," he said, "I got caught between the ridges, unfortunately on the western side of the road travelling south and a light truck coming up behind me was forced over the western side on to the grass. Had the driver of the truck not acted with commendable presence of mind, there might have been a very serious accident. I could not possibly have crossed over without being ‘spread-eagled.’ Most of the back roads in the Wairarapa and Hawke’s Bay districts, how-i ever, are very satisfactory and com-; pare favourably with those in the! Auckland province.”