LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 January 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Savings. National Savings receipts at the Masterton Post Office yesterday amounted to £52, making the total for the week £559. The quota for the week is £784. Compromise. I heard Sir Ronald Storrs talking about the Near and Middle East the other day, states a writer in the London newspaper, “Answers.” He was specially interesting on the problem of Palestine. The Jews, he said, now called it “The Half-Promised Land,” and the Arabs were retorting by describing it as “The Twice-Promised Land.” Really, I suppose, for once they both mean the same thing —that it’s “The Com-Promise Land.” Farm Hand’s Death. Jack Noble Clark (19), a farm worker at Moumoukai, Hunua (Auckland), while working on Thursday evening with several others with a tractor on a ridge to recover a log that had fallen into a gully, slipped 80ft with the tractor into the gully and received injuries ''from which he died in the Auckland Hospital yesterday. An ambulance had to cross two streams, and eight helpers worked in relays for an hour and a half carrying the injured youth to it. Interhouse Dance. The Masterton Masonic Hall was crowded last night, when a dance was held by the Wairarapa Interhouse Association. Messrs L. Askew and J. Bruce proved efficient M’s.C. Mrs Ashton’s orchestra provided excellent dance music, and extras were contributed by Miss Herrick and Private K. Strang. The winners of a Monte Carlo competition were Miss J. Chamberlain and Mr N. B. McKay. Supper was served by the Wairarapa Interhouse girls. Increase in Wages Demanded. The following resolution was carried unanimously at a representative meeting of members of the South Hawke’s Bay sub-branch of the New Zealand Dairy Factories and Related Trades Union: “That this representative meeting of factory workers in South Hawke’s Bay demand an immediate increase in wages, and improved conditions, so as to place the industry on a basis at least comparable to those ruling in other essential industries. As workers in this industry we are demanding a decent living wage which has been so long denied us.” School of Instruction. An announcement that the Civil Defence School of Instruction under the operational training branch of the National Service Department would be inaugurated on February 1 with a three weeks’ intensive course of instruction for 26 trainees, which the principal E.P. services throughout New Zealand have been invited to nominate, was made last evening by the Minister of Civil Defence, Mr Wilson. “The syllabus includes such general subjects as obligations and duty, fire-fighting, first aid, resuscitation, stretcher-bearing, personal and general hygiene, chemical warfare, U.X.8., protection against high explosives, and crowd dispersal,” said the Minister. “Provision has also been made for specialised courses in organisation of training warden duties and communication duties.” Pool’ 1 Dairying Season. Two factors have been responsible for the reduced output from dairy factories in the Wanganui district this season. The early part of the season was not favourable, lack of regular rainfall and the prevalence of cold winds having checked pasture growth during the flush of the season. This was followed by a prolonged dry spell, leaving many dairy farmers short of feed. A Wanganui dairy farmer, who has lived in the district for 50 years, said today that he had never seen the country so bare of feed at this time of the year. Dairy herds were all down in production, some of them as much as 50 per cent. The average decline appeared to be about 40 per cent. Based on the same number of suppliers as last season, one large dairy factory in the district, drawing supplies from a wide area, is manufacturing two tons less of butter a day than during the corresponding period last season.