LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Home Guard Parades. A parade of the Masterton Home Guard unit was held last night. A. Company paraded at the Drill Hah and C Company at the Town Hall. After a delay of many months, copies of the Home Guard manual were received and distributed. Frick Art Collection. Plans for a reinforced concrete underground structure that readily could be converted into a bomb shelter to protect its many valuable works of art havb been filed with the United States Department of Housing and Buildings by the Frick Collection, says the “New York Sun.” The estimated cost of the unusual structure—probably the first of its kind ever planned in New York —is 175,000 dollars. This underground building will adjoin the old Frick mansion on Fifth Avenue, which is now a museum, and back on to the Frick Art Reference Library, the 850,000-dollar home of one of Ihe most complete and systematic reference libraries in the specialised field of art, opened six years ago. Wild Boar Hunt in London. The bank holiday's most exciting event was a hunt in the heart of London for a large, ferocious Indian wild boar, which had been most bad-tem-pered since his companion died in December, writes the London correspondent of the “Sydney Morning Herald” on April 17. It escaped through the exits of the zoo enclosure on Sunday night. Keepers discovered it asleep in the middle of a big lawn. The head keeper organised a pig-stalking party of keepers and men of the .Auxiliary Fire Service. After an hour’s run Ihe boar was driven into a narrow lane between wire fences. The fun fizzled out when the boar calmly walked into a cage into which two biscuits had been thrown. Twice during the hunt the boar tried to charge lorries, which swerved to avoid it. ’ )

Autumn Tints. An avenueo of maple trees on the Terrace, Masterton, is a fine sight at present. The foliage of the trees presents a vivid display of tints. Other streets are also ornamented at present with autumn foliage. Oak Hitler Gave to Lovelock. “Lovelock's oak.” presented by Hitler to the famous New Zealand athlete at the Olympic Games in Berlin some years ago. has completed its acclimatisation at the Botanic Gardens' in Christchurch. The director of the gardens (Mr J. A. McPherson) said that the curator of the Timaru Public Gardens has collected the young oak. It would remain at the Timaru gardens for some time before being finally transferred to the grounds of the Timaru Boys' High School—Dr Lovelock’s old school. The oak. now 18 inches in height, had been an ugly specimen and had taken a long time to get acclimatised. he said. Army Rations Uneatable! Saying that he could not subsist on Army rations because he ate nothing but wholemeal and drank milk and water, James Richard Walker, bricklayer. appealed against military service on the ground of hardship before the No. 1 Appeal Board at Auckland •“I see you have been passed fit," said the chairman, Mr C. R. Ore Walker. "Did you tell the doctors you could not eat Army food?" "Not exactly,” said the reservist, “but ] told them I was very weak in that respect." He had already served three months in a Territorial camp. "How did you get on?" asked the chairman. Appellant: “I bought my own food. I could not eat Army rations. It. is impossible for me to live on such food." The chairman: “Well, the medical men will deal with that when you are in camp. If your stomach proves 100 weak you will be put out of camp." The appeal was dismissed.