No Late Shopping Night.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 July 1942, Page 2

No Late Shopping Night.

The shops in Masterton will not. observe the usual late hour on Friday night, but will close at 5 o’clock. On Saturday the shops will remain open till noon. Boy Injured. Murray Morris, aged 7, of Dixon Street, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital last evening, suffering from a cut on the head. The injury was received when an axe hit his head while wood was being cut. His condition is satisfactory. independence Day.

“The Glorious Fourth,” or Independence Day, falls on Saturday. United States citizens the world over will take cognisance of this, but President Roosevelt has asked that this year it be not observed as a holiday because of the war. In ordinary circumstances, a spirit of carnival takes possession of United States subjects on Independence Day. Public and private celebrations are the order of the day, and displays of fireworks are a regular part of the proceedings. Meat Production.

The official figures of killings for the present season at the Dominion s Fieezing Works from October 1 till June 13, as issued by 'the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, show that lamb killings to that date total 10,861,754 carcases, this being a decrease of 113,781 carcases compared with the killings to June 14 last season. Wether mutton killings are 761,159 carcases, and ewe mutton killings 1,945,572 carcases, compared with 603,382 and 1,535,523 carcases, respectively, last season. Motor Transport Co.

Routine orders issued by Captain D. B. Curry for the Lines of Communication, Motor Transport Company No. 13, Wairarapa are: Sub-Section 9, Masterton, under Sgt. Wilkinson, proceed to Kaipororo range for firing practice on Sunday, July 5. Assemble Transport Depot at 9 a.m. Lunch and cup. Eketahuna and Pahiatua sub-sections under Lieut. Ryan will have firing practice, also on Sunday, July 5, at Kaipororo range. Lieut. Ryan will make arrangements for meeting “Homeless Children.”

A request was received, according to the “New Zealand Herald,” by Mr W. H. Paul, chairman of the Waikato Children’s Camp League, that the league should provide accommodation at its camp at Port Waikato for 200 Masterton children who had been rendered homeless by the recent earthquake. Mr Paul immediately telephoned offering the accommodation. Mr Paul was thanked for his offer and. was informed that no request in that direction had been made by the authorities in Masterton. It is not known how the request originated, as no cases of homeless children were reported.