LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Reading at Sight. At the Wellington musical and elocutionary competitions yesterday, Paddy Turner (Masterton) was highly commended in reading at sight for girls from 12 to 16 years of age. Body Recovered. The body of Douglas Sim Wilson, aged 12, of Lower Hutt, who fell from the Day’s Bay Wharf on Monday afternoon, was recovered from the sea yesterday. Wilson had been fishing with two companions from the piles beneath the wharf. Drunken Motorist Fined. Pleading guilty to a charge of having been intoxicated while in charge of a motorcar last Saturday afternoon, William Samuel McKee, aged 35, Clive, was fined £l5 with costs £l, and had his licence cancelled for 12 months in the Magistrates’ Court at Hastings yesterday. Plunket Society. Subscriptions to the Plunket Society from the following are acknowledged:— Mrs A. B. Burns, £1; Mrs H. R. Forsyth, 15s; Mr and Mrs W. A. Michael, 10s; Mesdames S. Spicer, A. T. Maitland, 10s each; D. V. Groves, D. S. McKenzie, J. Teir, R. G. Hills, W. G. Whiteman, J. H. Blair, W. Dalziell, S. Rapson, A. B. Davey, J. F. Cleghorn, C. H. Jarvis, D. V. Banks, A. R. Fairbrother, J. H. Morris, R. T. Stewart, P. Wilton, 5s each. Voluntary Aids. A deputation from the Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John waited on the Acting-Prime Minister Mr Nash, yesterday with a suggestion that voluntary aids might be sent overseas for military hospital duty. Aftei

hearing the speakers who represented the Joint Council of the two organisations, Mr Nash said the points raised seemed quite good to him, and he 1 would discuss the position with his ’ colleagues. ' The Baptist Viewpoint. ! “When a man has a conscience , against this war, there is one thing . he must not do,” says Dr. J. J. North, in an editorial written for the “New ’ Zealand Baptist.” “He must not exj pect his country to provide him with a soft, safe job. To keep an exact con- -, science,” he continues, “costs many a man in commerce a thousand a year and extras. Why should it cost a man less on an issue that involves the fate ,r of the country? A conscientious man \ will not whine when he pays the bill. . ‘lt is worth it,’ he says, as he faces public scorn and private poverty. Started Fires to Test Brigade. Three charges of arson were admitted by Bryan Clarke Edwards, aged 27, service car driver, superintendent of the Coromandel Fire Brigade, when he appeared before the S.M. Court at Coromandel. Two of the charges were i. in respect of an unoccupied building owned by. Mr E. Deeble, Coromandel, ( and the other concerned a bach owned L by Miss M. F. Egan, Auckland. In a statement to the police which was proi. duced in Court, Edwards admitted i. starting the fires in order to see how the new fire brigade would work. The bach was burnt to the ground. Ed|wards was committed to Auckland for sentence. •