LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 20 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Union Bank of Australia. The Union Bank of Australia, Limited, will on Friday open a branch of the bank at Petone. Mr W. C. B. Ingram, who has been sub-accountant in the Wellington branch, will be manager of the Petone branch. Actually, the first New Zealand branch of the Union Bank was opened at Britannia. Pito-one (Petone) Beach. Port Nicholson. more than 101 years ago. Fatal Fall. Reported on Sunday missing from her home early yesterday afternoon. Mrs A. Gillespie, aged 68, wife of Mr David Gillespie, New Plymouth, was found by relatives later in the day lying dead at the foot of the Woolcombe Terrace sea cliff. Though inquiries are still being made there is little evidence to indicate how Mrs Gillespie came to fall down the cliff, unless it was by accident. It is known that she was . recovering from the effects of a severe attack of influenza, and for this reason alarm was felt when her unexplained absence from home was first noticed. Film in Dwellings. A statement that steps were being taken to tighten up the administration of the law which prevented the screening of film in private houses or in other unauthorised premises was made yesterday by the Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry. He said there was the probability that if a fire occurred in an unlicensed building where film was stored the insurance policy on that building would be nullified. Complaints, made about the practice, which, he said, was considered to be a menace to public safety, showed there was today an increasing number of private individuals possessing cinematograph projectors screening highly inflammable motion picture films in their own homes. It was an offence against the controlling regulations to screen inflammable motion picture film of any description except under the conditions prescribed by licence issued under the Cinematograph Films Act, 1928. It was also an offence to store this class of film in a private house

Masterton Frost. A frost of 3.6 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Issue of Drivers' Licences. So far comparatively few drivers’ licences have been issued by the Masterton Borough Council for the motoring year commencing next month. In anticipation of a greater, rush of applicants, an extra man has been detailed for this duty for the remainder of the* month and the beginning of .Tune. Patriotic Appeal. A total so far of £799.350 has been raised throughout New Zealand toward the All Purposes Patriotic Appeal objective of £1,000.000. The total to date is as follows: —Wellington. £191,250; Auckland, £170.000: Canterbury. £107.500: Otago. £79.500; Taranaki. £69,000; Hawke’s Bay, £54.200; Nelson. £37,300; East Coast. £26.700; Southland, £26.000; Marlborough. £18.900; Westland, £14.000; miscellaneous. £5OOO. Total. £799,350. The Wellington provincial figures are made up as follows: —Metropolitan, £105.000; London funds. £17,000; Wairarapa. £28,250; Wanganui. £11.000; Olaki, Levin. Shannon, £11,000: Feilding. £9500; provincial zones. £9OOO. Health of Troops. The health of the 9500 troops engaged on the recent Central Field Force manoeuvres was well above expectations. taking into account the winter conditions experienced. In the 10 days of the trek in the Manawatu. Wairarapa, Hutt Valley and West' Coast seafront area, 116 men were admitted to public hospitals in Wellington. Palmerston North and Masterton. They had all types of complaints, from cuts, bruises, colds and mumps to a broken leg. There were 50 men left, in the hospitals at the weekend, indicating that the 66 who had been discharged had trivial complaints only, requiring al. the most a few days in hospital. Pnumonia lurks within each cold. Although the worst may not unfold; Restrained by instant, first-aid care. Its incidence is very rare. Pneumonia when it does ensue. Will mean a lime of dread for you. ' Slight colds uncared to worse expand—' j Keep Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure 11 on hand 14 <