LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 27 August 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Art Union Winner. Winner of the “Lucky Charm” art union is Mr Charles McCaskill, 37 Craighall Crescent, Wakari, Dunedin. Mr McCaskill is an elderly man, a carpenter and joiner and well-known bowler. National Party. ' A meeting of the Masterton Women’s Section of the National Party was held yesterday afternoon. It was decided to hold meetings every month, beginning on Wednesday next. Woman's Hand Injured. As a result of accidentally running a knife into her hand, Mrs Fanny Dagg, of Mauriceville, was admitted to Masterton Hospital last evening for treatment. Her condition this morning was reported to be comfortable. Sugar and Tea Coupons. Those persons who have not used their August tea and sugar coupons before August 31 will be unable to do so after that date, when coupons 13 to 16 for tea and 19 to 22 for sugar become available. Amendments and additions to the list of coupon values and instructions to traders are advertised in this issue. Two Years' Detention. George Foster, a soldier and apprentice compositor, aged 20, who pleaded guilty to three charges of breaking and entering and theft in Carterton and Masterton and with assaulting Constable Williams, Carterton, was sentenced by the Chief Justice (Sir Michael Myers) at the Supreme Court in Wellington to be detained in a borstal institution for two years. Sales Tax Returns. $ Sales tax receipts in June, for ordinary revenue purposes, amounted to £294,656, as compared with £325,275 in May and £301,881 in June, 1941. The introduction of rationing of clothing, footwear, and household linen, as from May 29, the July Abstract of Statistics suggests, has no doubt been responsible for the decline of the June figures, though the imposition of rationing has not yet had time to show its full effect.

Rumbling Noises and Earthquakes. The popular belief that a rumbling noise preceded an earthquake was referred to by Mr W. A. Waters, Chief Engineer, Manawatu-Oroua Power Board, when talking on the subject of earthquakes to members of the Feeding Civic Club on Tuesday. The socalled rumbling arose from the fact that the first tremors of the phenomena were converted into apparent sound by the nervous system of the human body. This referred to quakes of the dimensions recently experienced when many people believed they heard a distinct rumbling sound whereas it was actually the commencement of the oscillation.

Massage Benefits. An announcement that the Minister of Health had appointed September 1 as the date on or after which massage benefits would be available was made last evening by the Director-General of Health, Dr M. H. Watt. Up to the present free massage services have been available only at public hospitals, and patients attending masseurs in private'practice have had to meet the full cost of their treatment. On and after September 1 approximately half the masseur’s fee will be payable from the Social Security Fund. Before they can avail themselves of this benefit patients must obtain a written recommendation from a medical practitioner that they are in need of massage treatment and they must receive treatment from a masseur who has undertaken to afford massage benefits in accordance with the conditions laid down in the regulations.