LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Exhibition of Work. Considerable interest is being taken in an exhibition of work by crippled children in the Wairarapa. A wide range of goods is on display which reflects the greatest possible credit on the children and their instructors. The display is in one of Messrs Hugo and Shearer’s windows.

Fatal Fall. A fall from a window, of a thirdstory ward at Auckland Hospital on Thursday night resulted in the death of Mrs Jane Sellar, widow, aged 63, of Otahuhu. Mrs Sellar was admitted to hospital with a fractured collarbone, caused by a fall at her home. After a nurse left the ward she heard other patients calling, and returned to find Mrs Sellar climbing through the window. The nurse was too late to stop her from falling to the concrete below. I Legacy for Former Employees. More than 600 persons in New Zealand received a surprise yesterday morning to find themselves beneficiaries under the will of the late Sir Percy Sargood to the extent of one week’s wages to all staff members with five years’ service in the employ of Sargood i Son and Ewen, the Cromwell Development Company, Onehunga Woollen Mills, Wanaka Station ,and the staff at his former residence. The legacy was distributed yesterday morning. The amount involved in the New Zealand distribution is in the vicinity of £6OOO. Acclimatisation Societies.

A proposal that the five societies at present forming the West Coast Acclimatisation Societies Federation —Taranaki, Hawera, Stratford, Wanganui and Waimarino—should amalgamate and form one organisation, to be known as the West Coast Society, with one common licence fee of 30s, was approved by delegates to the North Island Acclimatisation Societies’ Council meeting in Wellington yesterday. It was agreed that the secretary of the federation, Mr W. G. Watts (New Plymouth) should prepare details of the scheme for adoption by the five societies concerned, and take up with the Wellington and Auckland societies the question of boundaries, such proposal when completed to come before the North Island Council and to be submitted to the Minister.