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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Railway to Gisborne. According to a statement by the Minister of Public Works, Mr Armstrong, the Waikokopu-Gisborne section of the East Coast railway line will be ready to hand over to the New Zealand Railways Department late in June, 1942. Vegetable Prices. At the Wellington markets the abnormally high prices which vegetables have been bringing for the past month have eased off considerably this week. New potatoes from Pukekohe, which were bringing 6d a lb wholesale a week ago, and were being retailed at 7d a lb were yesterday down to 41 d a lb, and No. 2’s (“marbles”), were sold at 2d a lb in sugar-bag lots. Peas are still fairly dear. ' Yesterday good sorts produced 5d a lb. Large bunches of good quality carrots were sold at from lOd to Is 5d a bunch yesterday.

Charges Against Soldier. The first military court-martial in Invercargill for many years sat yesterday to hear charges against a soldier who received a bullet wound through his foot. After a sitting which lasted all day, the Court announced that it had found accused, Private Thomas James Calderwood, not guilty of wilfully shooting himself through the foot, thereby making himself unfit for overseas service. On an alternative charge of negligently handling a rifle, the Court found accused guilty, and announced that its sentence would be announced after it had been confirmed by the officer commanding the Southern Military District, Brigadier O. H. Mead. Estate Agent’s Death.

An inquest into the death of John Norman Lowther Edson, estate agent, aged 40, whose body was found in the vestibule under the light well in Endean’s buildings, Queen Street, Auckland, on Tuesday morning, was opened before Mr F. K. Hunt, coroner. Joyce William Hyland, public accountant, said he had known Edson for 25 years. So far as witness knew there were no financial reasons to cause his suicide and he was not worrying unduly about his new business venture. Constable Mackrell said no one saw Edson enter Endean's buildings. . Inquiries showed that he was financially embarrassed and depressed. The inquest was adjourned. Birds Destroyed by Cats.

“The number of cats in New Zealand is estimated at 1,000,000, many of which have gone wild,” says “Forest and Bird,” the magazine of the New Zealand Forest and Bird Protection Society. “Probably some 10,000,000 birds are destroyed every year by these animals alone. A cat belonging to a lighthouse keeper has destroyed an entire species (the endemic Stephen’s Island flightless wren)*. Weasels and stoats rob the nests of the flightless wekas —birds which serve as protectors of other native species owing to their destruction of rats. As the weka declines in numbers, so the rats are increasing, and the native birds grow fewer . and fewer. Every year many kiwis and wekas fall victims to the traps of opossum-hunters. Wild pigs, dogs, and human interference have combined to make kiwis scarce in all but the remotest areas.”

Soldiers’ Parcel Fund. Mrs W. A. Burling’s beautiful garden, Roberts Road, Lansdowne, will be open to the public on Saturday and Sunday afternoons next. A collection will be taken up in aid of the soldiers’ parcel fund. Good Lambing Season. Lambing estimates in the North Island for the current season are estimated at 90.7£ per cent —the highest since 1933, when the season’s estimate of 91.23 per cent proved slightly better than the actual lambing. Shearer Injured. Mr Cyril If. Brinsted has been admitted to the Masterton Hospital. He is reported to have gashed a finger while engaged in shearing near Masterton. His condition this morning was reported to be quite satisfactory. Missing Aeroplane. A reward of £2OO for information leading to the recovery of the aircraft in which his son, Leading Aircraftman Charles William Baker, aged 21, and Leading Aircraftman Winston Stanley Cannell, Matamata, are missing from the Royal New Zealand Air Force Station at Ohakea is offered by Mr W. B. Baker, Russell.

Chess Champions. Dr P. Allerhand has won the championship of the Wellington Chess Club for this year. The championship of the Wellington Working Men’s Club has been won by Mr T. Lepviikmann for the second year in succession. The runner-up, Mr F. K. Kelling, was the club’s first chess champion 52 years ago. Old Saxon Cross Discovered.

An important archaeological discovery was made during the clearing of the ruins of the Church of All Hallows by the Tower. London. The east wall was blasted in December by high explosives, and three weeks later the church was completely burnt out. The pillars and arches left standing were condemned as dangerous and pulled down. Among the debris was found part of a shaft of a sculptured Saxon cross. The keeper of British and medieval antiquities in the British Museum dates this cross in the first half of the eleventh century, and states that it is English work of a hitherto unknown English school and very different from the contemporary Viking sculptures of London, such as those in St. Paul’s. Churchyard. '

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 November 1941, Page 4

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Tapeke kupu
832

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

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

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