LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Presbyterian Services. The Rev David McNeur will preach on Sunday at the Eketahuna Presbyterian Church at 3 p.m. and at Kaiparoro at 1.45 p.m. The General Election. The following resolution was adopted by the New Zealand National Party at the Dominion conference in Wellington yesterday: “It is the opinion of this conference that a general election should be held as soon as the war situation permits.” Petty Thieving Prevalent. The prevalence of thefts, of coats from cabarets, dance halls and eating houses was mentioned by DetectiveSergeant McLennan in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Comment that this sort of thing was becoming too frequent was made by Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in sentencing a barman to 14 days’ imprisonment for the theft of a coat. Untrustworthy Spring. “I have always said that we invariably get some of our best weather in the winter,” said the Rev D. C. Bates, formerly Government Meteorologist, yesterday. This was apropos the soft, warm weather, with blue skies, and almost windless days, experienced this week in Wellington. But the public should not be misled. This spell of balmy weather is hardly consonant with the end of July, but rather more like the end of October. In the ordinary course of things there is likely to be some bitter weather before the encl of August ushers in our altogether untrustworthy spring. Cycle Tires. From today no person will be permitted to sell or dispose of, or part with, the possession or control of any bicycle tire or tube in his possession without the prior written consent of the Factory Controller or his representative. This does not apply to tires or tubes already attached to a bicycle. A control notice'gazetted last night also provides that within 14 days any person possessing or controlling bicycle tires or tubes not already attached to a bicycle as part of its normal equipment must furnish to the Factory Controller a return of the quantities and sizes of such tires or lubes in his possession. The Humphreys Case. With regard to a petition from Hobart praying for a pardon for Cyril Hugh Richard Humphreys, who was recently extradited from Tasmania, the Minister of Justice, a Press Association message states, is reported to have said: “Humphreys is reported to have informed the Court in Tasmania that he wished to enlist. When asked why he had not done so in New Zealand, he stated that he was working on munitions.” ' Following receipt of this information 'the legal firm of Finlay, Watchorn. Baker and Turner, which acted for Humphreys at Hobart, has cabled: “No such statement was made at any stage of the proceedings.”