LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 August 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Taxation Payments. A notice published in last night’s Gazette notifies that land tax is payable on September 30, and that income tax will be payable on February 11, 1943. Donations to Dental Clinic. The secretary of the Masterton Central Dental Clinic, Mr J. G. McFarlane, acknowledges receipt of 6s lOd in donations, per medium of the box in the Central Clinic rooms. Provincial Patriotic. Fund. Donations to the Provincial Patriotic Fund are acknowledged by the Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, as follow: —J. F. W. Lenz, £7; A. H. Ahrens, £3; Mr and Mrs J. W. de Castro, £l. Bicycle Tire Committee.

A bicycle tire committee has been set up in Masterton to control the supply and distribution of tires and tubes locally. The members of the committee are Messrs W. R. Nicol, G. Barr and R. Jordan.

Road Again Blocked. The main road has been blocked by further material coming down on the site of a recent slip, at Pukerua Bay. It is expected that the road will not be open for traffic today. The old road over Paekakariki Hill is still open. College Buildings.

A further inspection of the Wairarapa College buildings is to be made early next week by the Education Department’s architect. The brick building was inspected following the earthquake on June 24 but in view of the second severe earthquake on August 2, another inspection is considered necessary. Essential Industries.

The Public Service has been declared an essential industry. Similar declarations have been issued in regard to the manufacture of tobacco and the redrying of tobacco leaf, the operations of bakeries and of all pastrycook establishments, and the operations of all concerns coming within the scope of the New Zealand (except Westland) plumbers and gasfitters’ award. Sent to Gaol for Bigamy.

' Making his second appearance within 16 months for bigamy, Horace Basil Wiggins, aged 33, appealed to Mr Justice Fair in the Supreme Court, Auckland, to impose a fine so that he might save the money invested by the girl concerned in his boot-repairing business at Birkenhead. He was unable to get a man to carry on in his absence. Mr Justice Fair said the capital invested in the business could not be large, and sentenced accused to six months’ imprisonment.