LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Telephone Rentals.

Telephone subscribers are reminded that Thursday next is the last day for receiving telephone rentals.

Fire Brigades' Conference. The Easter conference of the United Districts Fire Brigades’ Association next year will be held at Pahiatua. Benefit Dance.

The Masterton Post and Telegraph Social Club will hold a dance in the Masonic Hall on Friday night next. The proceeds will be given to the Mo Katoa Scout Group, which is greatly in need of funds. Table Tennis Season Closed.

The Winter Sports Club, Masterton, completed its season’s activities on Saturday night with a doubles tournament which was won by Mr and Mrs H. Myers, Mauriceville. There was a large attendance. St. Vincent de Paul Dance.

A dance held in Masterton on Saturday night by the St. Vincent de Paul Society at the Catholic Services Club was fairly well attended. Miss Elsie Barnes was at the piano and Mr W. Orange was M.C.

Thefts by Student. Edward Francis Cule Hefford, who had been remanded on four charges of theft from fellow-students at the Dunedin Hospital, the amounts totalling £l4, was sentenced at Dunedin on Saturday to a month’s imprisonment.

Parcels for Prisoners of War. The Prisoners of War Inquiry Office states that the repacking centres for personal parcels still find that a large number of next-of-kin are including in their parcels chocolate in sealed tins. This cannot be allowed, and the necessary removal means delay in the forwarding of the parcel. Chocolate must be in unsealed tins and can be obtained from the packing depots. Music is still prohibited in personallyaddressed parcels to prisoners in Italian camps. Unknown Presbyterians.

The discovery of large numbers of hitherto unknown Presbyterian families, as a result of the house-to-house visits that have been undertaken as part of the campaign, for Christian order, was reported to the Auckland Presbytery. “In our part of the parish we discovered 100 Presbyterian families that we knew nothing about previously,” said Mr H. B. Burnett, of St. Luke’s, Remuera. The Rev. A. J. H. Dow said that as a result of systematic visitation they now knew of 500 Presbyterian homes in Onehunga. Others made similar reports.