LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Child’s Leg Broken.

Judith Blackley, a child of 4| years, residing in Villa Street, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday. She fractured her right leg when she fell at her home. Books Wanted.

Donations of cheap reprints and digest books are asked for for inclusion in soldiers’ parcels for despatch overseas. Donations may be left at t Women’s Rest Rooms, Dixon Street.

War on German Vassals. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, announced last night that a state of war had been declared with the Governments of Finland, Hungary and Rumania, as from one minute past noon, New Zealand summer time, on Sunday, December 7. Offender Before Court.

Arrested in Chapel Street on Saturday night, George Thomas Paterson, labourer and shearer, appeared before Messrs A. D. Low and E. M. Hodder, J’s.P., in the Masterton Magistrate’s Court this morning, on a charge of drunkenness and of wilfully damaging two windows to the extent of 10s. On the first charge defendant was fined 10s, and on the second was ordered to make good the damage.

Young Farmers’ Club. At the monthly meeting of the Masterton Young Farmers’ Club a “short talk competition” was held for the Falloon Cup. Mr G. H. Perry acted as judge, and made the following awards: —Mr D. McLachlan (‘.‘Organic Matter in the Soil”), 1; Mr S. Booth (“Mole drainage”), 2; Mr C. A. McKay (“Fat Lamb Competitions”), 3; Mr W. D. Buick (“Early History of the Southdown Sheep”), 4.

Non-Payment for Holidays. The Southland Labourers’ Union wholeheartedly supported the attitude of the Wellington branch of the Builders and General Labourers’ Union m protesting against the non-payment for statutory holidays, stated the secretary, Mr Harris, on Saturday. Mr Harris said he considered it unfair that the first time extra money was needed, men were to be deprived of payment for the Christmas and New Year holidays.

New Army Camp.

Linton, 80 miles north of Wellington by rail, and nine miles on the Wellington side of Palmerston Nortn, is likely to be the site of the new military camp which the Government is considering establishing in the Manawatu district. The country about Linton is undulating and suitable for manoeuvres. Though close to the city of Palmerston North, the main north highway, and the railroad, the district is a quiet one, running in towards the hills. The Manawatu river is only half a mile from the centre of Linton. There is a railway station at which trains other than expresses stop.

Parcels for War Prisoners.

Food parcels are being sent from Canada for prisoners of war at the rate of 3000 a week, and packing has already started in New Zealand at the same rate, according to the New Zealand headquarters of the Prisoners of War Inquiry Office, which has received official intimation that prisoners of war are now actually receiving weekly food parcels at their camps. Next-of-kin in New Zealand have had letters dated September from men in Stalag VIII. A and VIII. B, saying that weekly parcels of food and fifty cigarettes a week were being enjoyed.

Graham’s Farm Sold. The 101-acre farm at Koiterangi owned by the late Eric Stanley Graham, was sold last week, the purchaser being a settler whose holding is opposite Graham’s farm. As the new owner has his homestead, the absence of a dwelling on the Graham farm was no obstacle in the sale negotiations. A settlement of the claims under the fire insurance policy on the house and furniture was made last week. The charred remains of the house and its contents are still on the site. Mrs Graham and her family have shifted from the district. A change of name has been adopted by Mrs Graham by deed poll registered in the Supreme Court. &