LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 May 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Masterton Frosts. A frost of 5.6 degrees was registered in Masterton yesterday morning, and one of 11.4 degrees this morning. College Classes. Wairarapa College evening classes resume tonight and day classes tomorrow, following the term vacation. Medical Board Sittings, Medical Board sittings will be held in Masterton tomorrow and on Wednesday and Friday. Hot soup is again being served by ladies of the Patriotic Committee to recruits awaiting examination at. the Drill Hall. Waterside)’ Fatally Injured. Fatal injuries were■ received by Mr Frederick Brooks, aged 56, waterside worker, Broadway, Miramar, in an accident on the Wellington waterfront on Saturday afternoon. Mr Brooks was struck when a stack of cases on a ship fell. He received an injury to his back and was taken to .hospital al 2.45 p.m. but died at 8.30 p.m. Youth Accidentally Shot. A Press Association telegram from Hastings states that reaching into a tree to dislodge an apple with a shotgun, lan Osborne Duncan, aged 18, Havelock North, was killed when the gun discharged. Duncan was returning from a shooting expedition with a party of young men. When passing through an orchard he tried to knock down an apple, holding the gun by the barrel. Alter the accident, it was found that he had received the full charge in his body. Footballer Injured.

Mr D. J. Hibbs, of High Street, Masterton, was admitted to hospital on Saturday afternoon with concussion received while playing football at Memorial Park. Mr Hibbs, who received a bad knock in the first spell of a third grade match carried on, scored a try mid played* good football throughout the game. He collapsed in the dressing room, however, and was taken to hospital. His condition was reported this morning as being satisfactory. Odd Fellows’ Dance. The second series or the Loyal Masterton Lodge of Odd Fellows' popular dances was neld in the Masonic Hall on Saturday night. There was a large attendance of visitors from various parts of the Wairarapa as well as Petone. Excellent music was supplied by the Blue River Dance Orchestra. Extras were played by members of the orchestra. Bro. B. J. Sedclon was M.C. The Monte Carlo prize was won by Private A. Mackay and Miss B. Fawcett. A feature of the evening was the community sing by the dancers. The untiring efforts of the committee were responsible for a successful gathering. The singing of Auld Lang Syne brought the dance to a close.

New Zealand Soldiers Return. A draft of seven members of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force has returned to Auckland, invalided home. With the exception of one man who received injuries in a motorcycle collision in the blackout in England, the party was composed of sickness cases which occurred en route to the Middle East. One man, Private G. Esau, of Palmerston North, was admitted to the Auckland Hospital. He had spent some time in the New Yaralla Military Hospital, Australia. The remaining members of the party were Private V. R. McCloughnan, Grey Lynn; Sapper J. H. Darcy, Ponsonby; Signalman W. Bennett, Dunediij; Gunner R. J. D. Abrahams. Hamilton; Sapper M. R. Taylor. Wellington; Driver A. C. Campion, Christchurch. Patriotic Appeal Quota. The honorary Dominion organiser of .he £1.009,000 Patriotic Appeal, Mr J. Abel, has supplied the following particulars of the Wellington provincial patriotic province which has already exceeded its quota of £200.000 by nearly £5OOO.: —The amounts paid in to the provincial treasurer are: Metropolitan. £104,000; Wairarapa, £28,280; Palmerston North, £17,000; Wanganui. £11,000: Feilding, £9.500; Levin, £7,370; Taumarunui, £4.115; Marton, £2,365; Waimarino, £1.865; Taihape, £l,312; London appeal funds, £16.970; the total is £204.777. Mr Abel considers that £220.000 will be raised as Wanganui is only about to start its queen carnival, which begins next Wednesday and concludes on July 9. ft is thus hoped to realise the balance of £9.000 of Wanganui’s quota. Feilding also has further plans in view to obtain its outstanding balance. Teachers and Military Service. The view expressed by the Canterbury Education Board that teachers exempted from military service as pacifists or conscientious objectors should not be eligible for positions carrying a higher salary and temporarily vacated by soldier teachers, had not been discussed by the Auckland Education Board, said‘the chairman. Mr W. J. Campbell. He pointed out that teachers in the board's service had been asked in March to reaffirm their oath if allegiance. Some had yet to return their papers, but it was probable that \hey would be received by next boaid meeting. In the events ol any hitch, the matter would be fully discussed. The Wellington Education Board had not discussed the matter, said the chairman, Mr W. V. Dyer, last night. "Our teachers are loyal." said Mr Dyer, "and we have no reason to think otherwise." Motor Car Accident. Four Royal New Zealand Air Force trainees from, the No. 3 Flying Training School. Ohakea. were injured when i heavy car, in which they were 10Uirning front, Palmerston North, left the road just before midnight on Saturday on the first bend on the southern side of Mount Stewart. They are:—Edward Alexander Stevenson. Collingwood. lacerations to a lip. injury to a knee; Frederick Gillian de Joux. I imai'u. injuries to an ankle and a shoulder: Charles Ephraim Griffin, Petone, fracture of one ankle, injury to the other; Arthur William Love. Hastings, fracture of a kneecap, abrasions to the chin and scalp. All are reported to be progressing favourably. In addition. Messrs T. Kelly and J. Barrott were in the ear. The former suffered a lacerated wound to Hie scalp and injury to a knee, and the latter abrasions to his forehead and a knee. Though the bank ( from the road is fairly sleep, the car, did not turn over, remaining on its] wheels till it came Io rest against al macrocarpa tree. 1