EKETAHUNA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1941, Page 7

EKETAHUNA

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH HARVEST THANKSGIVING (“Times-Age” Special.) At the Eketahuna Presbyterian Church tomorrow, at 3 p.m., harvest thanksgiving services will be held and an offering will be taken up for church renovations. There will be a parade of Boy Scouts. Services will be held at Kaiparoro at 1.45 p.m., and at Alfredton at 7 p.m. MUMPS AND WHOOPING COUGH SCHOOL SPORTS POSTPONED. Owing to a prevalence of mumps and whooping cough in the Bush district, the combined primary schools sports which were to be held at Mangatainoka today have been postponed indefinitely. The decision, though not sponsored by the Health Department, is approved by the district Health Inspector, Mr J. M. Swain. SPECTACULAR ACCIDENT SEQUEL IN COURT. As a sequel to a spectacular road accident involving three cars at Hamua on January 27, Nelson N. Byers, of Nireaha, appeared in the Pahiatua Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, before Mr H. P. Lawry, S.M., and was found guilty of dangerous driving. He was fined £7 with court costs £1 5s and witnesses’ expenses £3 9s Bd. His license was endorsed. The magistrate did not cancel the license because defendant, claimed that he had to deliver milk to the factory. In evidence it was alleged that Byers's car had gone over the tops of two other smaller cars involved and had come to rest on the road, after careering on its side for a distance of two chains. For not possessing a warrant of fitness for his car Byers was fined 10s, with costs 10s. E.P.S. Meeting. A meeting of all persons interested in, and now part of the E.P.S. in Eketahuna. will be held in the county office at 7.15 p.m. on Monday. All members of the E.P.S. section attached to the Home Guard are requested to parade in Main Street as usual. The object of the meeting is to weld togethed the various functions represented by the controllers. This meeting will be.addressed by the latter with a view of instituting a series of lectures covering all phases of the Emergency Precautions Scheme. AH persons interested are earnestly requested to attend on Monday. Cruelty to a Pony. At the Pahiatua S.M. Court Vincent O'Brien, charged with cruelty to a pony at Haunui, was lined £3 with costs 13s. Gordon William Hart, who was with O'Brien, stated that they cut the hair off the tail of a horse and then painted the animal's back red. O'Brien, who is believed to be in a military camp, did not appear. Hart was refused witness's expenses because the magistrate found that he had been involved in the affair.