LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 May 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Te Ore Ore River Board, The Te Ore Ore River Board (Masterton County Council), according to ■a report presented at yesterday’s meeting, is faced with the carrying out of protective work along the river banks. The board agreed to meet the ratepayers concerned at the earliest opportunity and discuss the matter with them. Control of Hydatid. t “It should be compulsory for all carcases to be buried, especially in thickly populated areas,” said Councillor P. R. Welch, speaking at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council in respect to steps to control hydatid. Councillor George Moore pointed out that farmers who buried their dead stock before the blow-fly got at it were taking effective steps to check the blow-fly pest on their farms. Less of Rates. Reporting to the Kairanga County Council yesterday, the chairman, Cr W. R. Hopcroft, stated that following the recent deputation to the Acting-Min-ister of Finance regarding the loss of rates on the property at Massey College taken over by the Crown, the position was now more hopeful. He said he thought the Minister would be able to take steps to afford relief, possibly by a grant or having the loss spread over the whole county. The Minister had agreed that the council had a strong case. A Splendid Record. “Over thirty playing members of the Red Star Football Club have in the past two years gone overseas with the New Zealand forces, and over twenty others are now in training in various camps,” states the annual report of the Red Star Football Club. “It is a matter for deep regret that some of them have made the supreme sacrifice in the war, but we shall keep their memories green, and to their relatives we extend our most sincere, sympathy. Our thoughts are always with the Red Star players fighting overseas and in the forces in New Zealand.” Army Education. “The presence of large numbers of men in our military camps raises a question which should receive earnest .and urgent consideration. I refer to ! the question of army education,” said > the president of the Auckland Univer- ; sity College, Mr W. H. Cocker, ill his , address at the graduation ceremony. “New Zealand is the only one of the i British Dominions which has not proi vided for its soldiers a scheme of sys--1 tematic education. In the British Army there is an Army Educational Corps r responsible for the provision of education facilities. Full-time educational > officers organise and teach and every " unit has its education officer, though ’ not necessarily engaged full-time on ' educational duties. The absence of a properly organised education scheme among our forces seems the more remarkable when it is remembered that : during the last war the New Zealand Expeditionary Force helped to pioneer I army educational work.”

Liberty Loan. Subscriptions to the Liberty Loan on Monday were £480,000, making a total tc date of £4,261,900. Monday’s applications included one of £300,000 from the A.M.P. Society, Wellington. A Knitting Record. A worthy record for knitting articles for patriotic purposes has been put up by Mrs Bungate, of Fleet Street, Masterton. Since July, 1941, she has handed in to the Masterton Women’s Patriotic Committee the following articles, all beautifully made: —35 pairs of socks, 24 pairs of mittens, 25 balaclavas and 18 scarves. An Outstanding Flight. Flight Sergeant Ivor McLachlan, of Masterton, did an outstanding flight after having been attacked by night raiders in an operation overseas, writes a Press correspondent. His pilot was killed, his rear gunner* injured and the aircraft was badly damaged, but he got i the plane safely home and then made an excellent landing. Sock Mittens. As many as 185 pairs of sock mittens have been handed over for distribution among Territorials in the Wairarapa by the Masterton Women’s Patriotic Committee, with the assistance of the Masterton Townswomen’s Guild. Further supplies of old socks are urgently needed, and these may be handed to Miss Nissen, at the Master ton Patriotic Depot, Dixon Street, for the making up of further supplies of mittens ‘for distribution in the district. Soldiers are deriving considerable comfort from the mittens now that the winter is approaching. Sedgley Home. The matron of Sedgley Home acknowledges with grateful thanks receipt of the following gifts during April: —Cakes: Mesdames Trimble, S. R. Gawith, C. W. Rutherford, Eton, Paul Kummer and Miss Vallance. Apples: Messrs A. C. Gawith, W. A. Tate, Mesdames Free, Hallam, Miss Wallis. Beef: Mr T. A. Brown (Wangaehu). Sheep: Messrs J. E. Broad, Armstrong Bros. Sandwiches: St. Matthew’s Bible Class. Pikelets: Mrs Styles. Harvest produce: Tinui Church. Mutton: Patriotic Dance Committee, Tinui and Whareama Institutes. Jam: Mrs A. E. Pearce (Featherston). Overcoat: Mrs Parsons (Dry Valley). Vegetables and steak: No. 2 Platoon, A Company, Home Guard. Use of the Fusee. ; Shortage of matches has caused a revival of an old-fashioned method of creating fire, the use of the fusee. In response to requests for wooden matches, a Wellington tobacconist who has no wooden matches to sell, has been offering his customers fusees. Fusees are unknown to the younger generation, in New Zealand at least, though English people recollect them. They are more like miniature fireworks than matches, the essential difference between a fusee and a match being that the function of a match’s head is to ignite the stick of the match, while the head of a fusee burns longer and does not ignite the stick at all. The stick of a fusee is thin but strong, and its head is a large cigar-shaped blob that is a different colour at the tip.