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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Labour Party Dance. The Masterton branch of the New Zealand Labour Party will hold a dance in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, tonight. Win for Army Cricket Team. In a .cricket match at Wellington on Saturday the Army team beat Wellington representatives. Wellington score 206 (Mooney 54) and the Army 239 for 9 (D. S. Wilson 60, M. O’Brien 50). Death at Races. Mr George Henry Hawkes, aged 60, married, Remuera, collapsed and died on the crowded grandstand at Alexandra Park, Epsom, on Saturday afternoon about the time of the running of the last race at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting. Mr Hawkes was a retired farmer. Export Meat Schedule. The export price schedule for the coming season’s meat production has been under discussion between the Government, the Meat Board, and the freezing industry, said the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay, last night. The Minister added that several conferences had already taken place, and he hoped to announce the new season’s opening schedule this week. Motor Vehicle Licences. Up to September 30, 282,700 motorvehicles had been licensed in the Dominion for the current year, said the Postmaster-General, Mr Webb, yesterday. This represented an increase of 5683, or 2.05 per cent, over the number licensed at the corresponding date last year. The number of cars licensed totalled 198,448 and represented an increase of 2219, or 1.13 per cent over last year’s figures. The commercial vehicle licences, numbering 70,489, were higher by 3889, or 5.84 per cent. Motorcycle licences reached 13,763 and showed a decline of 425, or 3 per cent. Annual Physical Culture Display. To enable parents and the public generally’ to obtain some idea of the physical welfare work being carried out amongst the youth of Masterton, and benefits accruing therefrom through the physical training, tomorrow evening a first class programme of physical exercises, will be demonstrated in the association’s gymnasium, commencing at 8 p.m. Messrs Tatton Brothers, who in themselves produce some thrills, have spent considerable time gratuitously instructing the girls and boys in pyramid building, trapeze, rings, horse, parallel and horizontal bars work. The young ladies will demonstrate feats of balancing, tumbling and trapeze, and a squad of smaller girls will give an exhibition of wand drill. The admission charges will be adults Is and children 6d. Everything points to a bright entertainment and lit is expected that there will be a large 'attendance of the public.

Frost in Masterton. A frost of 7.4 degrees was registered in Mastertbn this' morning. Labour Day. The -flag on the Masterton Post Office was flying at full mast today to mark the observance of Labour Day. Hockey Dance. There was a fairly good attendance at a dance held by the Wairarapa Men’s Hockey Association in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, on Saturday night. The music was supplied by Jack Barnes’s Orchestra and extras were played by Messrs F. Poole and H. Filer. Mr B. J. Seddon was an efficient M.C. Supper was served by the committee. A Lamb and a Stilt. An amusing incident was witnessed near Masterton yesterday. A stilt, a long-legged bird which usually frequents/rivers and lagoons, was seen to be sitting on its nest in a paddock in which were a number of ewes and lambs. One lamb approached to within a couple of feet of the sitting bird and for a period of about two minutes bird and animal glared ot one another without either flinching. The lamb, apparently reassured, then made itself comfortable by lying down full length right alongside the stilt, which shielded its eggs with its wings extended downwards as the lamb assumed the lying position. Employer Sent to Gaol. “It can go out as a definite warning that any employer who deducts social security tax and fails to account for it will go to prison unless there are very exceptional circumstances,” said Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., dealing with Vincent Jonathan Woods, battery service station proprietor, who appeared in the Auckland Magistrate’s Court on two charges of having failed to furnish an income tax return, two charges of having failed to declare income other than salary or wages, and 14 charges under the Social Security Act of having failed to account for tax deduction from wages of employees. Woods pleaded guilty to all charges. On one of the 14 charges Woods was sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment with hard labour. He was convicted and discharged on the remaining 13 Social Security Act charges, while on the other four charges minimum fines were imposed.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1941, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
751

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 October 1941, Page 4

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