LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 December 1942, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Publication on Friday. The “Times-Age” will not be published on Friday, New Year’s Day. Fall From Roof. Alyn Dawson, eight years of age, whose parents reside at Petone, fell off the roof of a house occupied by Mrs M. Hunt, 81 Villa Street, yesterday, and was admitted to the Masterton Hospital suffering from a dislocated left shoulder. His condition is reported as satisfactory. Glut of Kumeras. ' Kumeras should be cheap in Wellington during the next few days. A large consignment from Raratonga came to hand a week ago and were on sale at the Allen Street markets. As they hung fire, because of the increasing quantities of new potatoes coming forward, they were sold at auction yesterday. They only brought from Is 6d to 6s 6d a 601 b sack, according to condition. Incident at Baths. The discovery of a full set of girl’s clpthing, shoes and a towel after the St George's Gate baths had been closed at Wanganui during the lunch hour yesterday aroused fears that a schoolgirl had been drowned. This prompted the woman caretaker, Mrs A. Watts, to empty the baths partially. After repeated attempts by diving and also with drags had failed to locate a body, anxiety was relieved later when the missing girl, still wearing her bathing suit, returned, to the baths and asked for the clothes she had left behind. Old Ration Books. With the close of the calendar year at hand, inquiries are being made by a number of people whether the old ration books, long since disused for everything but clothing and footwear, will go out of currency at the end of December. They will not. The M and O coupons left in the old books are the only clothing and footwear coupons that will be available till the end of May, for the M coupons in the new book’s will not be redeemable till June at the earliest. As far as fully-fash-ioned women’s hose, cither silk or rayon, are concerned, the only coupon available till January 31 is X 7. Scrap Rubber. The Dominion objective for scrap rubber is from 6000 to 10,000 tons to be reached within the next few months, states a bulletin from the National Council for the Reclamation of Waste, which sets out the policy for rubber collections throughout New Zealand. It is stated that the picking out of useful waste and its contribution to the national bins have not been taken seriously enough by New Zealand people, who even now refuse to recognise that they are in what Americans call a "hot spot” as regards rubber, paper, and some of the metals. The bulletin gives the prices to be paid for rubber scrap, running from £3 a ton for miscellaneous waste to as high as £B4 for clean crepe rubber cuttings; crepe soles stripped from shoes will bring £3O a ton. Tires beyond hope of repair and gumboots are worth £4 10s a ton.