LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 June 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Vicar’s Bequests. The Anglican organisations and the St. John Ambulance Association in Auckland will benefit under the will of the late Rev. W. H. W. Rattray, vicar of Point Chevalier. The amount that will ultimately become available for distribution in these legacies is estimated at between £BOOO and £10,000.”

Licensing of Showmen. A remit asking that the licensing of showmen be carried out by the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand itself, and not by any district council, came before the society at its annual conference in Wellington. The remit was rejected after a long discussion. The Northern District Council will continue to act as the licensing authority. Poisoning of Bees. Steps to prevent the poisoning of bees by arsenate of lead sprayed on fruit trees were considered at the annual conference of the New Zealand National Beekeepers’ Association in Wellington yesterday. A resolution was adopted, on the motion of the delegate for Hawke’s Bay, that requests be made to the Horticulture Division of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research to take all necessary steps to combat the devastating effects of arsenate of lead poisoning of bees as a result of indiscriminate spraying by some orchardists of fruit trees during the blossom period. I

Breaches of Price Regulations. Cases involving breaches of the Price Stabilisation Emergency Regulations were dealt with by Mr Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellinton, yesterday. C. B. Lempriere, Ltd., merchants, pleaded guilty to selling tinned fish at 13s 6d a dozen tins when the standard price was 6s 4d. A fine of £5, with costs 10s, and solicitor’s fee £2 2s was imposed. Doris Clarke, tobacconist, pleaded guilty to selling a razor for 19s 6d when the standard retail price was 12s 6d. Mr Birks said that defendant bought from another retailer five or six German razors at the standard retail price of 12s 6d each. She sold one at 19s 6d. The magistrate: What was the wholesale price? Mr Birks: Before September 1, 1939, it was 8s 6d, less 21 per cent. A fine of £l, with costs 10s, and solicitor's fee £2 2s, was imposed.

Blood Transfusion Service. Steps will be taken in Masterton on Monday evening to form a blood transfusion service locally. Mr C. Meachen, secretary and organiser of the Blood Transfusion Service (for emergency purposes), together with Dr. T. L. Parr, Medical Superintendent, Masterton Hospital, will give addresses in the Social Hall, Municipal Buildings, at 7.30 o’clock. All members of the E.P.S. and others interested are requested to attend. Films will also be shown depicting the proper methods of dealing with incendiary bombs and also first aid methods for arresting arterial bleeding.

A Fair Deal. “This is not a business bargain made in terms of commercial advantage on either side. It is just what we might expect from the Old Country —a fair and equitable deal in which business prudence is. mellowed by her regard for our difficulties and our regard for Britain's. Its nature, its fairness, its essential common-sense equity, compel this country, all of us alike, to do our best to implement it to the full,” said the Acting-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in an address at Wellington last nigh),, in which he reviewed the agreement reached with the United Kingdom for the disposal of exportable surplus products for the war period.

Four People Injured

Four persons were injured and taken to hospital when a tramcar struck a motor car broadside on at a New Plymouth intersection yesterday. They were Mi’ J. Hall, Warea, fractured pelvis; Mrs J. Hall, his wife, fractured rib; Mr B. Kelly, Warea, shock; Mr Kopi Oka. Warea, believed to have a fractured rib. The driver of the car, Mr Michael Kelly, Warea, was uninjured. The injured persons were reported last night to be progressing satisfactorily. The accident, which was One of the most spectacular that has happened in New Plymouth, resulted in severe damage to the car, but little damage to the tramcar. The car was hurled on to the footpath 20 feet away, the side that took the impact being stove in.

Old worn socks are urgently required by the Masterton Women’s Patriotic Committee to be made into mittens for the soldiers in camp. Donors may leave their parcels at the Rest Room, Dixon Street, Masterton.