LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 August 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Indoor Basketball. Because of the necessity of making a thorough inspection of the Town Hall, the Masterton indoor basketball competition games will be held this week in the Y.M.C.A. Basilica Closed. In general, church buildings in the Wellington district seem to have escaped serious damage in Sunday’s earthquake, but one exception is the Basilica, Hill Street. Both of the ornamental towers near the entrance to this building were cracked, one of them badly. Till full examination can be made and necessary repairs effected, the building has been closed. In the meantime St. Francis Hall, nearby, will be used as a church. Likely to Recover, The condition of Mr Mate Soko Urlich, the Dalmatian gumdigger who received two bullet wounds at Lake Ohia, North Auckland, on July 20, is so improved that he is likely to recover. Two operations were performed at the Mangonui Hospital, but no attempt was made to remove the two bullets. Subsequent to the wounding of Mr Urlich on July 20, a police constable, Herbert Hunter Barratt, was charged before justices of the peace with attempted murder, and was remanded. Price of Eggs. The Wellington Egg Marketing Committee and the Internal Marketing Division, working in conjunction with the Price Tribunal, have arranged for a decrease in the wholesale price of eggs. The new prices, which are now effective, are (previous prices in parentheses): —Heavy, 2s 6d (2s 9d); standard, 2s 4d (2s 7d); medium, 2s 2d (2s sd); pullet, Is lid (2s 2d); large duck, 2s 4d (2s 7d); small duck, 2s 2d (2s sd). Authorised receiving depots will pay 2s 21 d a dozen for ungraded eggs.

A Large Family. “It is extraordinary what a large family necessity has got,” remarked Mr M. F. Luckie, chairman of the No. 1 Armed Forces Appeal Board in Wellington yesterday, when a Presbyterian minister, supporting an appeal against Home Guard service on behalf of a Sunday school teacher and Bible Class leader, told the board that the reservist was the only male teacher he had left, and all efforts to find someone, male or female, to take his place had been unavailing. The minister admitted that if the reservist left the district some other arrangement would have to be made. The appeal was dismissed.

Frost in Masterton. A frost of 7.6 degrees was registered in Masterton this morning. Mittens for Soldiers, v

The old socks recently donated by residents of Masterton and district to the Women’s Patriotic Committee are being put to good use. The Townswomen’s Guild, through its representative on the committee, Mrs W. H. Judd, has made from them over 100 pairs of mittens. The Patriotic Committee has already supplied one camp completely and mittens for a second camp are now being made. Persons having old socks to spare are invited to donate them to the committee.

Manufacture of Cups. For the first time cups are being made in New Zealand. They are being produced at the rate of 15,000 a week from an Auckland kiln in an effort to cope with a small portion of the Dominion-wide demand. Saucers' are not being made yet, though the potters hope to be making them soon. Crockery shops have difficulty ’in maintaining their stocks. Orders from England, the home of chinaware, are increasingly difficult to fulfil, and some firms have been waiting over a year for stocks. There remain fairly good quantities of choice lines; it is the everyday ware for which there is an unsatisfied demand. Motor Transport. Routine orders for the Lines of Communication Motor Transport No. 13 Company, issued by Captain D. B. Curry, are:—A full company parade will be held on Sunday at the Transport Depot, Masterton, at 9.45 a.m. All ranks are. to bring cups but rations will be provided. All sergeants will arrange with section officers the time and mode of travel from their starting points and all rolls must be called and marked before starting. No leave is to be permitted except in cases of extreme urgency. Promotions: Driver McCarty to be Corporal Sub-section 4, Featherston. Driver K. A. McKenzie to be Corporal Driver, Headquarters B Section, Featherston. Marched in: Driver N. S. Munn to Sub-section 3. Driver D. C. Gilbert to Sub-Section 3.