LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 May 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Charity Ball. At a meeting of the Charity Ball Committee held recently, it was decided to hold this popular dancing event again this year, and tentative arrangements have been made to hold the ball during the first week of July. Child Scalded. Scalds from boiling fat were suffered by Graham Read, 2 years of age, of Mangamahoe. who was admitted to Masterton Hospital yesterday. This morning the hospital authorities reported his condition to be satisfactory. Open Season for Opossums. An open season for the taking or killing of opossums in various acclimatisation districts was gazetted last evening. The list includes the Wellington, Wanganui, Waimarino, Taranaki, Stratford, Hawke’s Bay and Hawera acclimatisation districts. Lamps for Territorials. ’ An appeal is made for petrol incandescent lamps or hurricane lamps for use by the Territorial units whilst in camp. In country districts, particularly in those of recent years served with electricity, there are probably a number of these lamps set aside which could now be put to very good use by the Territorial Forces. Lamps left with the Town Clerk would be forwarded to the right quarter. Increase in R.S.A. Membership. For the fourteenth consecutive year the financial membership of the New Zealand Returned. Services’ Association has increased. Comprising 95 affiliated and incorporated branches, the financial membership on March 31 showed 39,937, an increase of 1770, or 4.6 per cent, over the membership of the previous year. Included in this membership were more than 1400 returned servicemen from the present war. Blackout Offence; An offence against the blackout regulations was the subject of a case heard in the Magistrate’s Court, Wellington, yesterday, when Sydney Davies, 57 Mitchell Street, Brooklyn, was the defendant against charges that lights were showing from a window and from a front door transom during the period of an emergency. The case was heard by Mr. Stout, S.M. Two wardens gave evidence that when defendant’s attention was drawn to the lights he told them they were making a nuisance of themselves and refused to extinguish the lights. A fine of £2 with costs £1 Is was imposed.