LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 April 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Unwelcome Visitation. Westport had a rather unwelcome visitation at 6.25 o’clock yesterday morning, when an electrical storm was followed by a whirlwind which swept diagonally across the town, levelling wireless aerials, breaking windows, removing the veranda fronts of business premises, smashing trees, ripping the iron off roofs, demolishing some outbuildings of homes, smashing down fences and doing other minor damage. It then proceeded to Sergeant’s Hill, where it shifted the railway station and an outhouse. The visit was quickly over, but it was very disturbing while it lasted.

Hadlow Old Boys.

Old boys of Hadlow School were prominent at Wanganui Collegiate School last year. The School Magazine, an excellently compiled volume, just to hand, records the following successes: — G. E. A. Wilson: First English, Divinity. History and Geography. F. M. B. Kight and G. E. A. Wilson: First in Forms IV. and 111., Reading. Head of Hadfield House: J. A. Humphries (12 others on roll): Athletics, Swimming, •Junior Champion. B. Kight, who won the 50 yards and 75 yards, and was second for Dr. Saunders' Challenge Cup (50 yards): Barthop Challenge Cup — I Perry 3rd. J. A. Humphries is also a leading piper in the School Band.

N.Z. University Tournament. Auckland and Canterbury were almost evenly placed at the finish of the first day of the 1941 New Zealand University tournament, which began in Wellington on Saturday. The points at the close of the day for the university tournament shield were: —Auckland 61, Canterbury 6, Otago 3, Victoria IJ-. Auckland won the boxing shield and one athletic championship (broad jump). Otago won two athletic championships (shot, put and discus throw), Opie taking first place in each, and were second in the rowing and boxing. Points so far for the athletic shield are: Otago 6, Auckland 3. Canterbury 2, Victoria 1. and for the tennis cup. Victoria 8. Auckland 6. Otago 5, Canterbury 3.

Emergency Regulations Endorsed

At the annual conference of the New Zealand Federation of Labour in Wellington on Thursday, the chief subject was the Public Safety Emergency Regulations, particularly those relating to the power given the Attorney-General to deal with members of trade unions. There was considerable discussion about the general principle involved, it was stated, and the conference, by an overwhelming majority, endorsed the action of the executive in approving of the regulation. It was alleged by :>. number of speakers that groups of unionists. instead of using the unions to promote the interests of the workers, were using them for political reasons, and it. was stated that the regulations were necessary to deal with that sort of thing.