LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 August 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Failure to Report. Clifford Hubert Best, labourer, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment by Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, for failing to report for military service. Rationing Scheme Approved.

Approval for the rationing scheme applied to clothing was expressed by the executive of the New Zealand Federation of Drapers at the last meeting of the advisory board. The opinion was expressed that in the final analysis rationing would be beneficial to the trade and would assist in the conservation of stocks.

Parcels Acknowledged. The convenors of the Red Cross sewing group acknowledge with thanks parcels from the following:— Mesdames Riley, Copp, Lewis, Jansen, Berry, George, Harrington, Misses McKay, Cole, Te Wharau Ladies’ Group and anonymous.

Street Lighting. “Under the new regulations just gazetted, Masterton will be able to get light back in the streets at night,” said Mi' J. Robertson, M.P., this morning. Mr Robertson said that the florescent type of lighting would not be allowed, but all filament lamps would be permissable. Early Tomatoes.

As evidence of the mild winter, a Masterton resident today exhibited two tomatoes ripened in the open in a local garden. Although small, the tomatoes were well ripened. The plant from which they were taken was growing in a sheltered position outside and had been left in the garden from last season. Robbery with Violence.

Sentencing Leo John Peck,, aged 24, motor driver, to five years’ imprisonment for an admitted offence of robbery with violence by hitting a taxidriver on the head in an effort to steal and also for. two admitted thefts from dwellings, Mr Justice Fair, in the Supreme Court, Auckland, said that the prisoner had acted callously and brutally. He would be liable, for. a robbery of the kind attempted, to imprisonment for life. The least sentence that could be imposed for the protection of the community was five years.

Sharp Earthquakes. A sharp jolt which in the taller Wellington buildings was sufficient to set suspended, lighting fittings swaying and rattle small objects on desks was experienced at '5.5 p.m. yesterday. Slighter tremors followed. No examination of the extent of the area over which the tremors were felt had been made by the Dominion Observatory last night, but the opinion was expressed that it would register an intensity of between 3 and 4 on the RossiForel scale. The earthquake in the early hours of August 2 was of an intensity of 7 on the scale. Sharp earthquakes were felt in Masterton last night about 5 o’clock and 9.48 o’clock.

Wardens Defied. Said to have defied three wardens, a traffic inspector and a constable in a walk through an area in which an E.P.S. trial was taking place, Mary Anderson was charged before Mr A. M. Goulding, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday with failing to obey the instructions of a street warden in a dispersal area. Senior-Sergeant Paine said that during a trial in area 15 accused was seen walking down Thompson Street. She was told she would have to take shelter, but she said she was going for a walk. Asked for her name and address, she told the warden he would have to walk a long way to find out. When finally she encountered the constable, and still refused to reveal her identity, she was taken into custody, where she finally gave her name and address. She was fined £2.