LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 March 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Building Permits. For the month of February, the Masterton Borough Council issued six building permits to an estimated value of £2293, as compared with five permits to a value of £1405, for the corresponding month of last year. The Masterton County Council issued four building permits last month, for a value of £626. as compared with four in February, 1941, for a value of £426. An Essential Undertaking. The construction of hospitals, including additions and alterations, has been declared an essential undertaking by the Minister of National Service, Mr Semple. The declaration was made on February 27. The effect is that the employment of men now engaged on hospital construction work cannot be terminated without the prior consent in writing of district manpower officers. Masterton West School Association. There was a large attendance at a meeting of the committee of the Masterton West Home and School Association, held last night at the Masterton West School, Mr V. Burridge being in the chair. It was decided to hold a plain and fancy dress ball for pupils and ex-pupils on Saturday, March 28. at the Masterton West School, from 7 p.m. till 10 p.m., to be followed by a dance for adults up till midnight. The prices of admission were fixed at 6d for pupils and Is foi’ adults. New Naval-Station. Preparatory to the establishment of a naval training station in Otago, alterations have been made to a building extensively used before the outbreak of war for the instruction of naval reservists. The building, which is excellent for the purpose of training, and was built with this object in view, has lain comparatively idle for months, as almost all naval reservists have been drafted to active service duties. Alterations have been designed to provide facilities for personnel to live at the station. P. & T. Victory Dance. The P. and T. Victory Dance, held in the Masonic Hall last night, attracted a large attendance of dancers. Jack Barnes’s Orchestra played the dance music and Mr W. L. Butler had charge of the proceedings. Miss Watt supervised the supper arrangements. The winners of the novelty competitions were:—Lucky partner, Mrs and Corp. Whittaker; lucky spot. Miss Hood and Corp. Bradbury; Monte Carlo, Miss Olga Sutherland and Private Anderson. The next dance in the same' hall will be on Wednesday, March 18. Camp for Aliens. An announcement that an internment camp for the accommodation of enemy and othei - internees is to be constructed on the racecourse site at Pahiatua was made last night by the Prime Minister, Mi- Fraser. At present the internees are detained on Somes Island, in Wellington Harbour. “The accommodation on this island has become inadequate and does not now fully meet the requirements of the Geneva Convention,, 1929, which prescribes the conditions under which civil internees may be detained,” said Mr Fraser. “The site at Pahiatua was approved by War Cabinet after an' inspection by the Hon. Adam Hamilton, I the secretary to the Organisation for! National Security and other officers,' and construction will commence as I soon as possible.”