LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Soldier Measles Patients. Twenty more soldier measles patients from Waiouru Camp arrived at Wanganui yesterday. Thirteen wore stretcher cases, and the remainder were able to walk. There are 37 cases of measles in the emergency hospital, and 21 of mumps in the Wanganui Public Hospital. Price of Butter. By a price order issued yesterday the Price Tribunal has fixed the maximum price to the consumer of patted creamery butter of quality not lower than first grade at Is 6d a lb., and that of patted whey butter at Is 5d a lb. It will be permissible for retailers to whom a wholesale freight-paid delivery of butter is not available to increase the price to the consumer by the actual amount of freight charges incurred from the nearest wholesale source of supply.

Permanent Waving Case. In. a reserved judgment which covered 64 foolscap typewritten folios, Mr Justice Smith, in the Supreme Court, Wellington, yesterday, gave judgment for defendants in the case, Frederick Maeder, Adelaide, South Australia, v. Ronda Women’s Hairdressing Salon, Wellington; Arnold McKnight, Wellington, women’s hairdresser; Benjamin McKnight, Wellington, women’s hairdresser; and Mary McKnight, wife of Benjamin McKnight. The hearing lasted 18 days.

Parachute Troops. The United States Command and General Staff School Military Review states that Benjamin Franklin had the idea of parachute troops in 1783. In a recent issue it prints the following excerpts from Volume 9 of Franklin’s writings: —“Five thousand balloons,] capable of raising two men each, could not cost more than five ships of the line, and where is the prince who can afford so to cover his country with troops for its defence as that 10,000 men descending from the clouds might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief before a force could be brought together to repel them?”

Taihape Art Union.

The Taihape patriotic art union for a motor-car was drawn on Wednesday, the winner being Mrs D. Spry, Karioi, who became the owner of a new five-seater sedan motor-car valued at £360. She and her husband conduct a store in Karioi. She took a book of tickets, of which she sold two and kept the remainder. The third ticket in the book was the winning ticket, No. 18843. The total sale of tickets amounted to £1965. Over £9O worth of tickets were sold in five weeks to passengers on the Wel-lington-Auckland express when it stopped at Taihape. The car was donated by residents of Taihape. Deserter from Army. After having been at liberty for 21 months, Gunner William Gladstone Hopkins was arrested in Wellington by the civil police and pleaded guilty before a district court martial at Trentham yesterday to desertion. The court will forward a report of the proceedings, including its recommendation of sentence, to the convening officer. The particulars of the charge were that being a soldier of the Royal i New Zealand Artillery, accused deserted his Majesty’s Forces at Auck-1 land on November 11, 1939, he having j been transferred to Devonport from the Army School of Instruction, Trentham, and absented himself till arrested at Wellington on August 13, 1941, dressed in plain clothes.

Donations Acknowledged. Donations towards the Roll of Honour board fund are acknowledged by the Wairarapa College Board of Governors as follow: Mrs W. Cheetham 10s, Mr A. D. Low ss. Rail-Car for Territorials. The special rail-car which is to run from Palmerston North to Masterton next Saturday, bringing Territorials on leave from Waiouru Camp, is timed to arrive in Masterton at 5.45 a.m. Record Production. A record production of 84,716 tons of dairy produce, and a record gross turnover of £10,980,909, an increase of £l,144,682 on last year, were reviewed at the annual meeting of supplier-share-holders of the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Dairy Company in Hamilton yesterday.

Exempt from Taxation. Farm tractors and trailers owned by a farmer and used for the carriage of lime and other fertilisers for his own farm and travelling not more than on 12 miles of public road in a complete journey, may in future be equipped with E plates which carry with them exemption from taxation on the vehicle. This is provided for by the transport legislation suspension order gazetted last night. The concession has been introduced by the Government to further the national effort for increased production.

Life Saving Trophy. It was reported at last night’s meeting of the Wairarapa' College Board of Governors that Wairarapa College had again won the William Henry Trophy for life saving. The Principal, Mr G. G. Hancox, said that the trophy had been won by the college all four years in which the competition had been held. He would be pleased to see some other college win it. Members of the board expressed pleasure with the result and it was decided to send Miss R. K. Edwards (a former member of the staff) a letter of thanks for her work in training the girls. Reference was also made to the good work put in by Mr H. P. Glen in the same connection.

Training for Crippled Children... A proposal that the society should offer grants to the branches in order that some of them might be encouraged to establish vocational training centres where cripples could be prepared for vocations for which the technical schools did not provide, was made in a remit from the Auckland branch discussed at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Crippled Children Society in Wellington yesterday. Two such examples, watch and clock and boot repairing, were mentioned. Several speakers suggested that such training should be undertaken by the Government on the same lines as that of discharged returned soldiers. The remit was subsequently withdrawn, and a motion referring the question to the executive for consideration carried. War Bursaries. The War Bursary Regulations, 1941, gazetted last night, consolidate existing regulations and make provision for bursaries foi' the children of those who have suffered death or disablement in either the last or the present war. Last year Parliament extended the award of war bursaries to children of veterans receiving allowances under the War Veterans Allowances Act, 1935, and also to the children of those who have fallen or suffered disablement in the present war. To give effect to this new legislation enlarging the numbers of those entitled to bursaries, an alteration was necessary in the regulations. The opportunity has been taken to consolidate them, and the one set just gazetted makes provision for bursaries for the children of those who have suffered death or disablement in either the last war or the present qne.