LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 February 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Cyclist Dies From Injuries. Fatal injuries were received by a cyclist in an accident on the Great North Road, near Takanini. He was Ashton Edward John Fitchett, poultry farmer, aged 64, of Papakura. Boy Cuts Foot. ' A seven-year-old boy, John Gunn, of 25 Wrigley Street, Masterton, was admitted to Masterton Hospital yesterday. He is reported to have cut one of his feet while bathing. His condition this moi’ning was quite satisfactory. Work Begun on Shelter Tunnel. Preliminary work for the first tunnel shelter in Wellington started in the Hobson Street gully yesterday. By 2.15 p.m., 25 men had reported to the City Corporation for employment on air-raid shelter jobs. Insufficient labour was available to make a start on the other two tunnel works projected—Mount Cook, near the Carillion, and the old Hospital Road, in the Newtown area. Acquitted on Murder Charge. It was announced in October that, following the death in Kenya of Mrs F. L. Corrigan, formerly well known in Tauranga, her son-in-law, the Rev. V. V. Verbi, was found guilty by a jury of murder after an extended trial, says an Auckland mesage. An appeal against the verdict was lodged in Kenya and was heard in Mombasa, and a cable has been received from Kenya stating that the appeal was successful, and Verbi was acquitted. Conscientious Objectors. The Hawke’s Bay County Council decided to request the Government to repeal clause 21 of the Military Service Act, so that all conscientious objectors, whether their appeals are dismissed or not, should be sent to a defaulters’ camp. One councillor said that if a reservist could square his appeal with the Act he was exempted from service, and henceforth wore a smug smile of satisfaction at having gained his freedom. All conscientious objectors should be sent to a defaulter’s camp. “Or to gaol.” said another councillor.