Powerful Gusts of Wind.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1941, Page 4

Powerful Gusts of Wind.

Powerful gusts of wind swept Wellington from a west-north-west quarter on Thursday night and yestreday morning. It was not a gale, because the average velocity was 25 miles an hour, but one furious gust at 4 a.m. was recorded at 77 miles an hour. This was the heaviest for some time. At 6 p.m. a gust of 57 miles an hour was recorded. The wind never actually dropped during the day, but there were lulls when its velocity was only about 20 miles an hour.

Women’s Missionary Union. At the annual meeting of the Presbyterian Women’s Missionary Union, held at Timaru yesterday afternoon, a tribute to the P.W.M.U. was paid by the Moderator, the Rt. Rev. J. Davie, of Masterton, who said the work of devoted women was the secret of success behind the functioning of organisations within the church, and for 35 years they had kept the missionary work strong. The church had a greater opportunity today than for the past 300 years, and women of the P.W.M.U., together with the church, should not be discouraged by the disturbed state of the world.

Boy Shoots His Brother.

How a Maori boy aged seven shot and killed his three-year-old brother and then told his mother the boy had been killed by a pakeha, was told at an inquest held at Kawakawa into the death at Pokapu on October 13 of Mapere Wiki, reports the “New Zealand Herald.” The district coroner returned a verdict that death was due to a gunshot wound, the gun being discharged by Wahanui Wiki, brother of the deceased. Wahanui Wiki told the coroner that he and his brother Mapere were playing at guns. He took a gun from behind a dressing taole, loaded it with cartridges taken from a drawer, and, pointing the gun at his brother, who was on a bed, pulled the trigger. Mapere fell from the bed and witness became frightened. He carried his brother’s body outside and covered it with a piece of tin and a bag. He had not meant to kill his brother, and, being frightened, told his mother that a pakeha wearing dark glasses had killed Mapere.