LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 September 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

First Offender. A first offender on a charge of drunkenness was convicted and lined 10s by Mr L. J. Taylor, J.P., in the Magistrate’s Court this morning. Zoning of Milk Supplies. Milk vendors of Palmerston North have completed arrangements for zoning, in accordance with the suggestions of Mr H. M. Christie, North Island zoning officer. The scheme will come into operation on October 1.

For Charitable Purposes. The proceeds of the dance to be held under the auspices of the Post and Telegraph Social Committee in the Masonic Hall on Friday next will be donated to the St. Vincent de Paul Society, Masterton, for their activities in. connection with, sick and distressed persons.

Odd Fellows’ Lodge Dance. The Masonic Hall was packed on Saturday night, when the Masterton Odd Fellows’ Lodge held a most successful dance. Barnes’s Orchestra supplied the music, and Mr B. Scddon was M.C. The supper was supervised by a ladies’ committee. The Monte Carlo dance was won by Corporal Toorncr and partner. Hill Billy Drama.

In a little valley in North Wairarapa there is a. family of children who miss school, for months at a time, states the “Pahiatua Herald.” The headmaster has dispatched prefects after them without success. They just disappear into hide-outs. Parents have no better influence. One girl has been along to lessons on eight days of the present year. The lav/ could enforce punishment but it may not cause the children themselves to desire education as an entry to economic and social participation in an adult world. That hillbilly drama is being Jived almost in our neighbourhood. Outstanding Performance.

One of the most outstanding performances yet recorded by any pedigree dairy slud is that accomplished during 1941 and 1942 by the Koromiko Friesian herd owned by M. J. Parker, Of Dalefield. By completing on September 12, 1941, a record of 800.531 b. fat, Koromiko Buttercup, a member of the Koromiko stud, created a new record for junior three-year-old Friesian heifers in the Dominion. Within a space of ten months, however, this record has been surpassed by another member of the stud. The latter is Koromiko O.K. Lass, who, on July 2, 1942, completed a 365 day period under C.O.R. Test, as a junior three-year-old heifer with 21,430.11 b. milk and 801.17 lb, fat, thereby depriving her herd mate of the class leadership.