LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 October 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Savings Receipts. National Savings receipts at the Masterton Post Office yesterday amounted to £l9O, making the total to date for the week £925, which is in excess of the quota of £784. Accident at Drill.

A pupil of the Masterton Central School, Leslie Clarke, aged 13 years, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday with a fractured wrist which he received when he fell over a rope while attending drill. I

Dance in Masonic Hall. There was a large attendance at a dance held in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, last night, by the State Kitchenette Sports Club. Novelty dances were won by Miss O. Richards and Driver J. D. Law and by Miss T. Williams and partner. Private B. McHattie was M.C. and the music was supplied by Barnes’s Orchestra. Miss L. Hopkins played extras. Control of Collieries.

The form of control to be adopted in future at the Waikato coal mines is believed to have been discussed at meetings in Wellington during the past few days between representatives of the northern owners and the Minister of Mines, Mr Webb. The owners’ representatives left Wellington for Auckland by the Limited express last night’, and the Minister of Mines, Mr Webb, was also a passenger by the train.

Soldiers Sent to Gaol. Sentences of 18 months and one year’s gaol, both with hard labour, were among those promulgated yesterday at a military camp in the Wellington district in the cases of soldiers gujlty of desertion. One soldier was away from camp 10 months and another 18 months. Another soldier was sentenced to six months’ gaol with hard labour and two others each to 90 days’ hard labour, all for desertion. Detention for 30 days was imposed in a case. of absence without leave.

Wairarapa Kennel Club. At a meeting of the committee of the Wairarapa Kennel Club final arrangements in connection with the ribbon parade, to be held on October 17, were made. Mr J. Soler, a member of the executive committee of the N.Z. Kennel Club, was appointed judge of all breeds. Mr Soler is well known as a judge of exceptional ability. Members of the : committee congratulated Mr S. Geary on his. success at the Lower Hutt Show, where he won the class for the best dog in the show with hjs Pointer, Stamford Statesman. Attack on Taxi* Driver.

A taxi-driver, Herbert' O. Smith, received hospital treatment at Auckland early yesterday morning for a head injury allegedly caused by a blow on the back of his head from a. man whom he had driven from Karangahape Road to Bowen' Avenue. When he was struck, Mr Smith bumped against the car door and fell on the roadway, the car careering down Bowen Avenue and running into a lamp standard. Mr Smith staggered to the footpath and was assisted by a passing airman to a police station. After he had received treatment at the hospital, .he went home Nothing more has been seen of his assailant.

An Essential Industry. •. An announcement that steps had been taken to declare the pasteurisation, bottling and distribution of milk to be an essential industry was made yesterday by the Minister of Industrial Manpower, Mr McLagan. “This action,” said the Minister, “was deemed necessary .to ensure the maintenance of the delivery of mjlk to hospitals, institutions, private households and for the milk-in-schools scheme. The necessity for maintaining an adequate and continuous supply of milk for human consumption will be obvious and the effect of the declaration will be to stabilise the labour employed in this work.”

Campaign for Christian Order. A special feature of the “Campaign for Christian Order” is the simultaneous preaching in the churches. In the Dominion churches tomorrow there is to be again a unified message delivered. The organisers state that the attendances at the Masterton churches last Sunday showed a practical response to invitations to attend, and that the messages are of vital interest and importance, and deal with the practical application of the Christian order to all departments of life. It is realised that the outbreak of the present war brought the world face to face with realities. More and more as the struggle continues it has become evident that behind everything there is an irreconcilable clash of ideals.