E.P.S. Parades.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1941, Page 4

E.P.S. Parades.

A parade of N.C.O’s. of the Masterton E.P.S. organisation will be held in the Municipal Hall tonight at 7 o’clock. B company will parade at the Municipal Hall on Thursday at 7 p.m. Building Permits. The Masterton Borough Council issued nine building permits for an estimated value of £lBOO last month, as compared with four permits of £2410 during March, 1940. Driver's Licences. The Masterton Borough Council has issued 2382 driver’s licences to date, ol which 18 were issued last month. The iviasterton County Council issued five last month, bringing the total to date to 1203. Destructive Fire. A tire which broke out in a store shed at Span Farm, Henderson (Auckland) at 2 o’clock yesterday morning destroyed rubber goods valued at about £3OOO. Tnere was no insurance on the goods and a small coverage on the building, which was a one-story wood and iron store. Escaped Monkey Caught. After six weeks of stolen liberty, the last of the 17 monkeys which escaped from the Newtown Park Zoo in February was caught yesterday. He was enticed into a trap baited with an apple. Ihe monkey had recently returned to the Zoo grounds, living in the vicinity of the cage housing his companions. Vital Statistics. A marked increase in the number of births and deaths and a decline in marriages was a feature of the vital statistics registered in Masterton las's month. The following were the figures recorded at the Courthouse last month, with those for Marell, 1940. in parentheses: Births. 77 (GO); deaths, 43 (27); marriages. 24 (41).

Hit and Run Charge. For having failed to stop after an accident on Masterton Road, Pahiatua, on Marcli 19, Kenneth Gordon Hamilton Udy, of Kakariki. was committed io the Supreme Court. Palmerston North, for sentence by Mr 11. P. Lowry, S.M.. at a special sitting of the Pahiatua Magistrate's Court. Mrs Lois Vilbert was injured as a result of the collision.

Forty-Hour Week. “Definitely no." This was the emphatic reply of the Minister of Labour (Mr. Webb.) when lie was asked at Auckland yesterday whether, considering the general shortage of labour, he contemplated abolishing the 40hour week. The Minister said that any extension of hours had to be approved by the Industrial Emergency Council, and applicants had to show that any extension was essential to New Zealand's wav effort