LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 April 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Publication tomorrow. The “Times-Age” will not be published tomorrow, Anzac Day. Train Arrangements. In today’s issue will be found the Railway Department’s advertisement in connection with Anzac Day train arrangements. Successful Shop Day. After all additional money had been paid in the amount realised by the St. Vincent de Paul’s Society shop day was £26 2s 4d. Saint Andrew Society. The dance practice of the Saint Andrew Society to be held on Monday April 27, at at Orange Hall, will commence at 8.30 p.m.

Motor Tires and Tuces. Everyone who has new motor tires or tubes, including private individuals, firms or corporations, must make a return of such tires by Monday. A provision requiring this return is contained in a control notice gazetted last evening. New tires and tubes are defined in the notice as those which have run 2000 miles or less, but those on the four wheels of a vehicle and the spare tire usually carried are excluded. No By-Election.

The appointment of the Minister of Lands, Mr Langstone, M.P., for Waimarino, as New Zealand High Commissioner in Canada, would not render the seat vacant, and necessitate a byelection, stated the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, last night. He said that under the special legislation, the Overseas Representatives Act, passed in February, it was now possible for overseas representatives to retain their seats in the House of Representatives. Taking Notes in Court.

The magistrate, Mr E. C. Levvey, yesterday at Christchurch cancelled an order made earlier by him prohibiting all except accredited counsel and authorised representatives of the daily newspapers from taking notes regarding the nature of proceedings under the National Service Regulations. He said that the taking of notes by the public in Cdurt was not of itself a matter of objection, but if such notes were taken the use and publication of the notes was at the peril of the person taking them.

Sentences for Theft. A sentence of six months’ imprisonment was imposed in the Magistrate s Court, Wellington, on Wednesday, by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., on Lionel Albert Atkinson, farm labourer, aged 62, who pleaded guilty to the theft of a clock, valued at £9 10s, and five watches, at Wellington, Marton, and Palmerston North, and the theft of a bicycle at Marton. A sentence of four months’ imprisonment on a charge of theft of a bicycle was imposed on Thomas Edward Winnie by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington ,yesterday.

Acute Egg Shortage. A statement that the Wellington area was experiencing at present an extreme shortage in egg supplies, so much so that for the remainder of this week it would be impossible for distributors to make any quantity at all available for sale in retail shops or restaurants, was issued last evening by the Minister of Marketing, Mr Barclay. “At this time of the year,” said the Minister, “the volume of eggs available is always considerably lower than at Ihe peak of the season, but this natural tendency has been greatly aggravated by heavy demands of the military forces. Also there have been great difficulties in organising additional supplies from the South Island.”