LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 March 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Gift of Lamb. The New Zealand Meat Producers Board has telegraphed Captain E. S. Stone, officer commanding the squadron of the American Fleet in Auckland asking him and his officers and crew to accept 500 earcases of prime lamb from the farmers of the Dominion. Airman’s Death. A finding that death was caused by an aeroplane accident after a collision in mid-air was returned by the coroner, Mr. A. J. Graham, at an inquest at Palmerston North yesterday into the death at Ihakara on March 4 of Leading Aircraftman Evan Roy Archer, a trainee from No. 3 Flying Training School, Ohakea. Sergeant W. J. Brown conducted proceedings for the police. Plasterer Electrocuted. While operating an electric drill at Piripaua powerhouse, two miles south af Tuai, a workman received an electric shock and subsequently died. He was Mr George Crosby, plasterer, married, Napier, and employed by W. M. Angus. Ltd. The accident occurred at 11.35 on Tuesday morning, and on receipt of advice that Mr. Crosby had collapsed after electrocution a party of public works men from Tuai who were efficient in resuscitation methods was rushed to Piripaua, where a new powerhouse is under construction. However, all efforts were unavailing. Need for Blackouts. “I would like to make it understood that the black-out trials are considered by Cabinet to be most important.” said the Primo Minister, Mr. Fraser, in giving an assurance in Auckland yesterday that on his return to Wellington he would discuss with those concerned certain aspects of lighting in Auckland. The fact was brought to Mr. Fraser’s notice that wardens were meeting with the complaint that the black-out was absurd while defence establishments and other military objectives, such as railway yards, petrol tanks and wharves continued to present a blaze of light. Mr. Fraser said the danger- of enemy raider attacks on a larger scale affecting our ports and shipping must ever be kept in mind. He expressed high appreciation of the excellent cooperation being extended in the difficult matter of the black-out.

Six Months’ Imprisonment. Six months’ Imprisonment was imposed on James Bryce Wilson by Mr. Maunsell, S.M., in the ’ Magistrates’ Court in Blenheim yesterday on two charges of theft from the funds of the airmen pilots’ mess at the Woodbourne Flying Training School. Wilson, who pleaded guilty, was a Corporal in the Air Force, and part of his duty was concerned with receiving money from the staff of the airmen’s mess and paying it into a bank. Discrepancies in amounts received and paid had been discovered and Wilson was discharged from the Air Force on March 6.

Marooned by Floods. Marooned on a haystack in the middle of raging floodwaters from the Ashley River, a young farmer, Mr. Arthur Wyllie, watched the water rise at the rale of three feet an hour while he waited for a boat to rescue him on Tuesday. He was on the north bank of the river, and on the south bank at the same time an elderly woman, Miss M. Leggett, took refuge in the upper story of a home, the lower floor of which was more than waist deep in water. Mr. Wyllie was rescued at about 5.30 p.m., and Miss Leggett about half an hour later. Both had been isolated by the flood for two and a half hours.