LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 August 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Ankie Injury. An injured ankle was suffered by Mr William Cane, 21 years of age, when he tripped in a hole on the property of Mr M. D. McGregor, “Glenstrae,” yesterday. He was admitted to Masterton Hospital for treatment. Coal Mine Idle. The Kamo coal mine (Whangarei) ' which has been producing from 1000 to 1100 tons a week, has been idle since Thursday. The men stopped work as a protest against notice being given to 32 because of lack of places in the mine and also because the rate of output has been decreased. Seventy men are affected, in addition to the 32. Situation In Pacific. “As soon as I can give any helpful information' to the House with regard to the situation in the Pacific I will be pleased to do so,” said the ActingPrime Minister, Mr Nash, in the House of Representatives yesterday in reply to an urgent question asked by Mr Lee (Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn) in association with Mr Barnard (Democratic Labour, Napier). Waterside Workers. The Auckland branch of the Waterside Workers’ Union has admitted some wharf workers from Bluff, Gisborne, New Plymouth and Wanganui to assist unionists who are affected by the wartime policy of concentrating shipping at Auckland and Wellington and to make up for a shortness in union membership caused by war service, said the branch secretary, Mr E. A. Girven, yesterday. Scarcity of Silk Stockings. A suggestion that silk stockings should be sold by the issuing of coupons has been forwarded to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan, by the secretary of the Auckland Tailoresses’ Union. “I am writing to you because working girls are getting desperate over the unfair way silk stockings are being sold to the public,” the letter states. “Many idle people rush stockings and by lunch time working girls find they are all sold.” Toll of the Motor. Eleven persons lost their lives in traffic accidents during June, the Minister of Transport, Mr Semple, announced yesterday. Seven of these fatal accidents involved pedestrians, and six of the seven occurred at night-time. Nine of the fatalities took place in urban districts, five being in the Auckland metropolitan area, and the other four in Otahuhu, . Rotorua, Wellington and Christchurch. “All persons who are walking on the road at night-time should take a lesson from these figures,” said Mr Semple. “Accidents to pedestrians form an exceptionally high proportion of the total. During June and July last year there were 16 fatal accidents to cyclists and pedestrians. In the same two months this year 21 pedestrians and cyclists were killed on the road, an increase of nearly a third. In I addition, approximately 200 were injured.”