LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Art Club. The Masterton Art Club will hold a business meeting tomorrow night to discuss arrangements regarding the exhibition to be held in November. A full attendance of members is requested, as the business is important. Seddon Cup Contest. The annual unprepared speech contest for the Seddon Memorial Cup was held at .Wellington College this week. R. M. Campion, whose subject was “Dress,” won first place. H. C. Lopdell (“Suggestion for the School Concert”) and H. L. Peirse (“Music”), were bracketed second. H. B. Twaddle (“French”) and D. S. McKenzie (“Dancing”) were bracketed third. The judge was Mr R. L. A. Cresswell. Summer Time Extension. A suggestion that summer "time should be extended to one hour a day as an economy measure, at least during the war, was made by Mr R. McKeen (Government, Wellington South) in a question addressed to the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, of which he gave notice in the House of Representatives yesterday. Electric power boards were strongly in favour of an extension, which would also benefit many industries materially, Mr McKeen said. Transport Appeals. The appointment of a Transport appeal authority for the purposes of the Transport Licensing Act, 1931, is provided for in a seclion of the Statutes Revision Bill introduced in the House of Representatives last night relating to transport. People who may be financially interested in the industry or employed in it are not to be appointed to the post. The authority is given the powers of a commission of inquiry. A final clause transfers to the authority the functions of the Minister of Transport in relation to appeals under the amendment Act of 1936. Dominion’s Heavy Fire Loss. The fact that New Zealand’s peace time fire loss was one of the highest in the world was stressed by Mr W. S. Mac Gibbon, president of the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, speaking at a meeting of business men in Christchurch, when E.P.S. fire prevention requirements were explained. Mr Mac Gibbon said that business men could do much to reduce this loss, much of which was due to carelessness. neglect, or accumulation of dirt and rubbish. Fire loss was more damaging than ever today, when stock and buildings could not be replaced except with difficulty. Charges Against Youths. Three suspects, aged 15, 16, and 17, described as labourers, appeared yesterday at a special sitting of the Children’s Court at Auckland on a joint charge of breaking and entering the counting house of E. L. Riley, Ltd., Newmarket, on Sunday, and stealing £l4B 9s. The youth of 17, who was beyond the jurisdiction of the Children’s Court, was remanded to appear at the Magistrates’ Court on October 9. The others were remanded to appear in the Children’s Court on October 10. No charge has yet been brought in connection with the assault made upon the factory manager, Mr E. L. Riley. His condition was yesterday reported to be fair. [For Chest Colds, take 11 . Woods’ Great Peppermint Owe, <