LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bowlers’ Patriotic Effort.

The patriotic funds are to benefit by £744 as a result of the New Zealand championship bowling tournament in Christchurch. Infectious Diseases. For the week ended yesterday, eight cases of infectious disease were* reported to the Wellington office of the Health Department for the central Wellington area. They were: Tuberculosis (4), erysipelas (.2), scarlet fever (1), and hydatids (1). Earl Roberts Shooting Trophy. The Earl Roberts Empire shooting trophy for 1940 has been won by a team from lhe Southland Boys' High School. The team scored 301 points and had a substantial winning margin from Wellington College (254 points). Auckland Grammar School was third with 231 points.

Drunken Motorists Fined. In the Wellington S.M. Court yesterday, Mr. Luxford. S.M.. fined Francis Brodie Browning, grocer and engineer, aged 49, £lO, and prohibited aim from holding a driving licence for 12 months lor having been intoxicated in charge of a car. At Palmerston North on similar charges. Alexander Ernest Rutledge, farmer, was fined £l5, and George Mataki, labourer, £lO. both having their licences cancelled for twelve months,

Post Office and Military Service. More than 3000, or 25 per cent., of the Postal Department's staff have already been released or are about to be released for overseas or territorial service. The number already overseas or in camp exceeds 2000, said the Post-master-General, Mr Webb, at Auckland yesterday. It had to be remembered, he said, that 45 per cent, of the depart--ment’s officers were married men. and there were a large number of youths under military age. and approximately 1400 women.

Wild Boar Hamstrung. Armed with only a pocket knife and a heavy piece of wood, a Tahora farmer, Mr. R. Selby, recently killed a huge wild boar which was bailed up against a fence by two sheepdogs. The hoar, which weighed more than 5001 b.. had apparently come down to Mr. Selby's farm in the Tangarakau district during the night. Early the next morning his two dogs scented it and held it against a wire fence at the back ofthe farm. Mr Selby made a wide detourand was able to creep unnoticed through scrub which came down to the fence. With a sudden movement lie caught a hind leg of the surprised animal and drew it back through the wires, ham-stringing it with his pocket’ knife. Holding on with one hand, he seized the second leg and operated on it the same way. He then found a heavy piece of timber and stunned the helpless boar, then killing it witli his knife.