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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bay of Plenty Seat. The New Zealand Democratic Labour Party will not contest the Bay of Plenty seat at the by-election on December 13. An announcement to this effect was made yesterday by the honorary Dominion secretary of the party, Mr F. M. Earle. Worst Paid Trade.

“We are the worst-paid trade in New Zealand,” declared Mr J. S. Rose, president of the Auckland Fruit Retailers’ Association, when giving evidence before the Price Tribunal in the inquiry into vegetable prices. y He said that in his own case his aggregate turnover for the last two weeks had been £104,, and he had cleared £8 6s 6d. “And I had to work 60 to 70 hours a week to get that.”

False Fire Alarms. Three malicious false alarms were received by the Wanganui Central Fire Brigade within an hour on Sunday night. The first, at 8.30, was to Durie Hill, and the second, at 8.57, to Murray’s Foundry, Taupo Quay. Shortly after the had returned to the station the alarms sounded again, the call proving a malicious one to the corner of Selwyn and Grey streets. The matter has been placed in the hands of the police. About six months ago a similar epidemic, of false alarms occurred in Wanganui. There is a £5 reward for any person giving information leading to the conviction of those responsible for giving false alarms.

Doing Their Job Well. Extending a welcome to Mr A. Duff Cooper at the State luncheon at which the latter was entertained in Wellington yesterday, the Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) said their guest was with them at a time when the brave and gallant sons of this Dominion, Maori and pakeha, were engaging and fighting the enemy in Libya, and, according to the latest reports, doing it very successfully. All knew what their lads had done in those historic actions in Greece and in Crete. Today they were on the march again with their British and Indian comrades, driving the enemy in front of them. This time they were at least on parity with the enemy on the ground and in the air, and the results they were looking for were now beginning to trickle through, but it was a substantial trickle. Land Subsidence. During an address delivered at the Palmerston North Rotary luncheon, Mr A. Seifert asserted that land in the Makerua district was at a lower level than it was some 40 years ago, and this he attributed to earthquake action. The drop, he said, approximated six feet, and while no timber could be seen in those days, now stumps could be seen sticking through the land surface at many points. Mr Seifert added that there wore unmistakable evidences in the district that there had been three forests which had grown successively in the area. This had been proved when a drain was being cut in the Tokomaru area some years ago. It seemed to him that there was evidence that the whole of the district had, at one time, been a forest, probably of white pine.

A Hot Day. Yesterday was the hottest day experienced in Masterton this summer, the glass registering 81.2 degrees in the shade. Drunken Motorist Fined Charged with having been intoxicated in charge of a motor car in Willis Street, Wellington, Daniel Spence, a cleaner, aged 47 years, was convicted and fined £25, and had his licence cancelled for 12 months, in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday. Abandoned Taupo Railway. The protracted dispute over the continuation of the railway from Rotorua to . Taupo, which resulted in £75,000 being spent on preliminary work in 1928, has ever since then hindered land transfers near Whakarewarewa, where a strip of land was reserved for the railway. By proclamation in the Gazette this reservation has now been revoked, apparently ending a controversy which as recently as 1939 was the subject of a petition to Parliament. Farmer Drowned. Mr -Thomas James Cummins, aged 43, married, farmer, was drowned off the coast at Apata, about 13 miles from Tauranga on Sunday. With a companion, Mr Cummins set out in a flat-bottomed dinghy to board a launch lying some distance out from the shore. The boat sprang a leak and filled with water. Mr Cummins, who was unable to swim, was left clinging to the dinghy while his companion went for assistance, but he disappeared.

Cordial Welcome to Wellington. A cordial welcome to the capital was extended to Mr Duff Cooper and Lady Diana Duff Cooper at a civic reception in the Town Hall, Wellington, at midday yesterday, when the Mayor, Mr Hislop, presided over an attendance of approximately 2500. The city’s chief guests were given a rousing reception, which was renewed when Mr Duff Cooper rose to reply to the welcome and again when he closed.

Wrestling Bout. '.The return wrestling match between Lofty Blomfield, of Auckland, and Fred Atkins, of Australia, took place at Auckland last night. It resulted in a win for Blomfield who was awarded a penalty fall in the seventh round when he was struck a solid blow on the left ear with what the referee determined was a punch. Prior to this each man had obtained a fall. The first fall was won by Atkins when he lifted his opponent for a slam and press. Blomfield evened the falls with a submission from an octopus clamp. Buller Gorge Railway.

Arrangements were finalised at Westport yesterday for the ceremony next Tuesday of the driving of the last •spike in the Buller Gorge railway, completing the connection between Westport and Reef ton and thence with the main railway system of the South Island. The Prime Minister (Mr Fraser) and the Minister of Public Works (Mr Armstrong) will arrive by plane for the function in the morning, leaving on their return in the afternoon. Messrs P, C. Webb and R. Semple will nrrlvo earlier and deliver public addiL’r.scii on Monday evening.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
987

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 November 1941, Page 4

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