LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 September 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Tree Planting Scheme. At last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council a committee comprising Councillors H. E. Gardner (convenor), W. Kemp and R. Russell was set up to report to the Park Committee on the advisability of planting suitable areas in the borough with trees. The suggestion was put forward by Councillor Gardner. Drover’s Death.

Harry Coe, drover, Bulls, was found dead on the road beside his home yesterday. He left home to drive stock from the Bulls stock yards to a paddock adjoining his home and it is thought he had a stroke and fell from his horse, receiving a broken neck. Mrs Coe saw her husband on his horse about to drive the cattle into the paddock, and later saw the horse entering the property without a rider. On investigating she found her husband lying on the road. Stock for Returned Soldiers.

The scheme of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to encourage farmers to make contributions of calves to provide stock for returned soldiers settling on the land was regarded favourably at a meeting of the Waikato SubProvincial Executive of the Farmers’ Union recently. The scheme had everything to commend it, said the chairman, Mr H. Johnstone, who indicated that the giving of calves to returned soldiers would be a purely voluntary subscription. It was decided to circularise branches and request them to get in touch with their local branches of the Returned Soldiers’ Association to discuss the scheme.

Alien Doctors. A firm stand against enemy alien doctors was taken by the Hawke’s Bay Hospital Board at Monday s meeting, when a decision was made not to allow them to practise in institutions under the board’s jurisdiction for the duration of the war. A resolution embodying this was adopted on the motion of Mr H. V. Hoadley, who said that he would have resigned had the board not been able to exercise such power. The chairman, Mr W. E. Bate, explained that the position had arisen through two women having expressed a wish to enter the Matenu maternity ward of the Memorial Hospital, Hastings, to be attended by a medical Practitioner who was not a member of the board’s staff, and was an enemy alien. The board’s solicitors when approached had stated that the board had full power to object to any medical practitioner entering the hospital to act as a medical adviser in a maternity case;

Rating System. It has been decided to hold a special meeting of the Masterton Borough Council, on Wednesday, October 15, to discuss the rating system. Cable Messages. The Post Office advises that the text, “Best wishes for New Year,” has been authorised as a standard text admissible in cables messages to members of the fighting forces and is now available for use in connection with the Jewish New Year (Monday next.) and for the calendar New Year. Librarian's Report. Subscribers at the Masterton Municipal Library totalled 649 at August 31 against 568 at August 31, 1940. Altogether 5971 books, of which 392 were reference, were issued in August and 1202 books were added to the library. There were 179 juvenile subscribers at the end of last month, an increase of 6 on the July total. Body Identified. The human remains found in the Logan Park (Dunedin) grandstand after the fire have been identified as those of Thomas Walter Ford, married, aged 28. This was disclosed at an inquest at Dunedin yesterday when it was stated that the trunk of the body was lying across a four-gallon petrol tin. The police said that a petrol lighter near the body was identified by Ford’s wife, Nessie Ford, as similar to her husband’s, the same applying to a zip fastener and belt. In the roadway behind the stand was a car registered in. the name of Ford's mother, and Ford was last seen by his wife driving this car at 4.45 o’clock on the morning of the fire. The inquest was adjourned for further police investigation. Air Training Schools. Further information about the development of the Air Training Corps and in particular of the school units was given by the Minister of Defence, Mr Jones, in a statement last night. The Minister pointed out that though the Air Training Corps must be regarded as an extension of the preentry educational training scheme, any boy joining his school unit was under no obligation whatsover to link up with the Air Force at the conclusion of his training in the school unit. Of a total of 61 schools communicated with on the matter, 32 had already indicated that units would be formed. The failure of many of the other schools to reply favourably was because the school was so small that too few boys between the ages of 15 and 18 were available. The total strength of the units already offered would be between 1400 and 1500,