Successful Dance.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1941, Page 4

Successful Dance.

The dance organised by the staff of Woolworths Ltd and held in the Masonic Hall. Masterton. on Saturday night proved most successful. There ..were some 250 people present. The music was supplied by Pool’s Blue River Orchestra and the duties of M.C. were carried out by Mr I. McChesney (manager). Novelty dances were won by Mr and Mrs B. Castle and Mr Alan Keir and Miss L. Jacobsen. Supper was served by a committee. Savers of Scenery. Although some individual motorists have been guilty of vandalism in native forests, it is a solid fact that automobile associations have shown an active willingness for the safeguarding of beautiful scenery. Good evidence of that attitude of helpfulness has been received by the Forest and Bird Protection Society. All the automobile associations of New Zealand, except the one in Southland, have become endowment members of the society. Goats and More Goats. “It seems to me that some of the farmers of Taranaki have not as much sense as the goats which they keep on the verge of Mt. Egmont’s native forest mantle." writes a Now Plymouth member of the Forest and Bird Protection Society. “The farmers say that they need the animals to check blackberry, but the sad truth is that many of the goats have found their way into the bush, where they get better fodder than prickly blackberry. They have increased to such an extent that they are a real menace to the forest on which the welfare of Taranaki depends. Without that proi tective forest, which regulates the flow from thaws of snow and very heavy rains, the rich dairying lands would soon be laid waste. Why the instinct of self-preservation does not make the Taranaki people wage a persistent exterminating war on the goats is a mystery to me. They seem to be expecting the Government to work a miracle. The goats will beat them if they do not bo- 1 stir themselves. They have only themselves lo blame for the goat nuisance which threatens their living.”

The following count of the hairs on the human head is accepted as approximately correct: 88.000 for red heads. 102.000 for brunettes. 104.000 for blondes. Normally, each of these hairs has a life of from six months to four years, after which it falls out. lo be replaced by a new one.

Students are reminded that the St. John Ambulance Division’s A.R.P. lee-1 lure session will not be held tonight.) 'l’ho Wairarapa Caledonian Society j will hold an Ingleside in the Masonic Hall on Wednesday night