Raffle of House.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 June 1941, Page 4

Raffle of House.

The winner of the house recently raffled in Lower Hutt is Mrs Brittain, wife of the new schoolmaster at Gladstone. The property also has a motor garage, and a washing machine goes with the house. The winner, who was living in Khandallah at the time she purchased the ticket, had just received news that her brother Max was a prisoner of war, and she used that name when she bought the ticket. Lights Flicker. The flickering of electric lights in Masterton and other parts of the Wairarapa at about 7.10 o’clock last night raised fears that a blackout might occur but nothing further happened. The trouble was somewhere in the Government system beyond the Wairarapa district. In Wellington the trams and lifts were out of action for half an hour before power could be fully restored there. The trouble set up a heavy surge which cut off the Wellington supply from outside. Dependents’ Allowances. Wairarapa members of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force who marry after their examination by the medical board should notify the Masterton Defence Office of the date of marriage and the wife’s address, so that the necessary form can be sent out to be filled in, to secure a dependant’s allowance. If this is neglected the Defence Office has no knowledge of a soldier's marriage and unnecessary decays result in securing the allowance for a soldier's wife. Masterton Art Club. With the exhibition of the work of Mr and Mrs S. B. Maclennan, A's.R.C.A. and club members generally, set down for next week, there will be much preliminary work to be done at the meeting of the Masterton Art Club tomorrow night. So that the selection of members' work may commence at 3 o'clock, it is intended to begin the ■ meeting promptly at 7 o'clock, when it is expected that there will be a full ' attendance of members to complete exhibition arrangements.

Six-day Week. Holding that the 40-hour week has no place in a wartime economy, the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce at its meeting last night adopted a report recommending that a six-day 48-hour week be instituted under the war regulations with the proviso that hours worked in excess of 40 a week, up to 48. be paid for nt ordinary rates of pay. The report was presented by Mr P. E. Pattrick, convener of a committee set up some time ago to consider the question of the suspension of the 40-hour week for the period of the war. Air Mail Services.

The first airmail from the forces in the Middle East to be received in New Zealand since the temporary interruption of the Empire service because of the Iraq incident was delivered yesterday. Making this announcement last evening, the Postmaster-General, Mr Webb, said that the last airmails received from the Middle East before the interruption were dispatched on April 26 and April 29, and received in New Zealand on May 11, while the airmail received this week-, was dispatched on May 13. It would be seen, therefore, that the interruption was not of long duration. Advice had also been received, said Mr Webb, that owing to restricted loading capacity, fhe use of the Empire air service for the conveyance of airmails to East and South Africa and to the United Kingdom was temporarily suspended, but that the service to places in the Per-' sian Gulf. Palestine, Egypt and Sudp.n was to continue.