LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 December 1941, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Borough Health.

According to a report submitted by the Sanitary Inspector (Mr T. A. Russell) to the Masterton Borough Council last night the borough has been free from cases of notifiable infectious diseases since July.

Municipal Abattoirs. Stock slaughtered at the Masterton Municipal Abattoirs last month comprised 48 cows, 44 heifers. 39 bullocks, 12 calves, 548 ewes, 465 wethers, 226 lambs and 185 pigs. Three sheep and two pigs were condemned.

Masterton’s Library. A total of 5934 books were issued by the Masterton Borough librarian last month and 1374 new books were added to the library. The subscribers totalled 674, against 609 last year. In addition, there are 180 juvenile subscribers.

Pavilions Damaged. The Palmerston North City Council has drawn the attention of the police to the extensive damage done to pavilions in the various sports areas in the district, particularly in regard to broken windows, and has asked that supervision be exercised with a view to the apprehension of offenders. It has also asked the various bodies concerned to arrange for the patrolling of the areas in which the damage occurs. Greetings for Overseas.

“It is now too late to guarantee the delivery by Christmas of greetings telegrams to places overseas,” said the Postmaster-General, Mr Webb, yesterday. “While the response of the public to previous announcements on the subject has been particularly gratifying, there is still a fairly steady lodgment of greetings traffic and the overseas cables are now heavily congested. Further Christmas cablegrams can be accepted only on the understanding that delivery may not be possible till the New Year.”

Accident at Railway Crossing. Serious injuries were received by two persons when an outgoing train struck a taxi at the railway crossing in Guyton Street extension, Wanganui, yesterday. The injured are: —Charles Hill Fraser, taxi driver, Boydfield Street. Broken ribs and a punctured lung. Thomas Coutt, a porter at the Patea public hospital, who was a passenger in the taxi. Dislocated left shoulder, broken right arm and broken left leg. Both men were taken to Wanganui hospital, where an operation was performed on Fraser immediately. At the time of the accident the taxi was on its way to the hospital, were Coutt was to undergo an X-ray examination. The vehicle was badly wrecked.

Art Union Profits Allocated. Allocations totalling £10,435 from surplus funds of the £5OOO alluvial gold art unions were announced yesterday as a Christmas gift to a number of institutions rendering charitable and philanthropic work in the Dominion. The largest grants go to the New Zealand Crippled Children Society, and the Commandery in New Zealand of the Order of St. John, each receiving £750 The other grants range from £250 to £25. The Minister of Internal Affairs, Mr Parry, stated that the continued Domin-ion-wide subscription by the public to patriotic funds had lessened the surplus of art union funds after the usual £5OOO from the profits of each of the national art unions had been paid over to mayoral distress funds. Consequently, some lof the grants now made were a little Jess than those made last year.