LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Coal Mine Idle. The Liverpool State mine was idle yesterday and will be idle today because’of heating in the west level at the foot of the Anderson dip. Stoppings were put in yesterday to isolate the trouble, which is not regarded as serious. Death on Successive Days. A son and his elderly father died in the Wanganui Public Hospital on successive days. They were Mr Sydney Robinson, aged 75. and Mr Eugene Robinson, aged 43. There was a double funeral. Mr Robinson, Senr., was born on the site of the old Chief Post Office, Wanganui, where his parents then lived. His father was at one time licensee of Chavannes Hotel, and was the originator of the first Wanganui Volunteer Fire Brigade. Mr Robinson, Senr.. is survived by his wife, whom he married 45 years ago, one sen, Mr S. Robinson (Wellington), and three daughters, Mesdames H. Sherman (Wanganui), and Follitt (Castlecliff), and Miss J. Robinson.

Farmers and the Rabbit Pest. “The trouble is not killing rabbits. We know all about that. It is only a matter of finance and of keeping at them,” said Mr L. R. C. Macfarlane, who presided at a conference of the South Island Rabbit Boards Association at Christchurch yesterday. “The trouble is with some owners of land. There is a tendency to do enough to keep within the law and to leave a few rabbits for next year. There are probably 10,000 farmers in Nev/ Zealand who' leave a few. If they each leave only 100 we all know that in a year there are 100.000.000 and in two years ten billion.” Mr Macfarlane said that farmers were constantly on the edge of a precipice with the rabbit pest. If efforts to kill them off were slackened rabbits, would immediately creep into every district again.

Poor Quality Butter. After a meeting of the Wellington Master Grocers’ Association, held last night, the following official statement was issued: —“All members at the meeting were concerned about the quality of the butter they are receiving. A number of cases in which butter has had to be returned because of its inferior quality were quoted. The association intends to write to the Minister of Marketing, asking him to investigate the position. The public today is paying for finest grade butter, but is not getting it.” This statement was made yesterday by a Wellington retail grocer, and was confirmed by Mr W. Heggie, of Dominion Distributors, Ltd. Residents of Masterton will recall that in the Great War a largo quantity of butter was placed on the Dominion market that was often described as “cart grease.”

Written in chalk on the completely boarded-up window space of a shop in Hulme, Manchester: “If you don’t see what you want in our windows, please come inside.” Two seen in a Merseyside region recently. One on a chemist’s shop read: “Our panes have gone; come inside and we’ll remove yours.t’ Another said: “The glass is down, but there is no depression here.”