LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Kiatere Harrier Club, Members of the Kiatere Harrier Club will hold a training run over a 4) miles course tomorrow. This run will start from the Solway Showgrounds at 2,30 p.m. The following Saturday an invitation run is to be held from the residence of one of the club’s supporters. Members, it is suggested, should now settle down to steady training, as there is a fairly big programme to get through this season.

Dairy Factory Managers. Two regulations of interest to dairy factory managers were gazetted yesterday. The main object is to consolidatethe existing regulations governing the registration of dairy factory managers. The new regulations authorise the Registration Board to appoint examiners for applicants for registration, and to conduct examinations. These will now be held at centres more convenient to the applicants instead, as hitherto, before the whole board in Wellington. In order to define more clearly the effect of registration and the issue of certificates of registration in respect to the managership of dual-plant factories (those manufacturing both butter and cheese), provision has been made for the division of certificates of registration into (a) first and second-class butter certificates; and (b) first and second-class-cheese certificates.

Rugby Union Ballot. As the New Zealand Rugby Union decided to abandon the annual conference of delegates this year, the election of officers on the Dominion controlling body is being held by postal ballot. The only nominee for the office of president was Mr W. A. Craddock, Buller, and he succeeds Mr L. V. Carmine. An election is necessary for the two vice-presidential positions (North Island and South Island). There are four candidates —Messrs J. N. Millard (Wellington), J. Moye (Wanganui), E. V. Phillips (Canterbury) and D. M. Spedding (Otago). Only the required number of nominations was received for the three North Island seats on the council, those elected being Messrs A. St. C. Belcher (Waikato), and G. A. Maddison (Hawke’s Bay) and the Hon. J. McLeod. The executive (the members of which have seats on the council) has been re-elected unopposed. Mr A. E. Neilson, secretary of the N.Z.R.U.. is the returning officer. The voting, where it is necessary, closes on May 14.

Heavy Frost A frost of 12.1 clegres was registered in Masterton this morning, the heaviest so far recorded this year. The Petrol Ration. “You can take it that the Government’s present policy will be to stay put with the present allowance for private owners for two months at least, unless something unforeseen in the international situation interrupts supplies,” said Mr W. R. Carey, president of the South Island Motor Union, at a meeting of the executive of the union last night. Mr Carey had reported earlier in committee on the national conference .of representatives of petrol-consuming interests. held in Wellington recently. Soldier Seriously Injured. Travelling to New Plymouth on leave from Trentham, Private J. W. Strood, a member of the N.Z.E.F., was struck by the arm of a tablet exchange at Moumahaki when the Wellington-New Plymouth express passed through the station yesterday afternoon. Strood, who received severe wounds in the chest and abdomen, was taken on to Patea and sent to the Public Hospital, where his condition after an operation last night was stated to be serious. Strood, it is believed, was climbing from the front of the first carriage towards the engine tender. He was struck with some force and thrown heavily to the ground. His address is given as New Plymouth, but he is not known to have any relaitves in New Zealand. Iron & Steel Production. Good progress is being made with reconditioning the Onekaka iron works and it is expected that the production of pig iron will commence in about two months’ time, the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan, stated at Nelson yesterday. The entire plant is being repaired, and is rapidly being brought into Working order by the Public Works Department. “So long as the necessity justifies operation of the plant we will go on producing iron at Onekaka,” the Minister stated. "To do this we will require the services of some 80 men. In addition, we have taken another very important step in the duplication of the small steel rerolling plant at Green Island. Dunedin. The present plant at Green Island is capable of rolling a number of sections of round and square bars, and by duplicating the rolling mills a very welcome addition will be made Io their existing production capacity, and I hope that with this activity and with full co-op-eration from all I’oncerned w (1 will be able to hold our position stable."