LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 January 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

National Savings. National savings receipts at the Masterton Post Office yesterday amounted to £l4, making the total for the week to date £621. Sly Grog Seller Sent to Gaol. Edmund Percy Freeman, waiter, aged 26, was sentenced to 21 days’ imprisonment by Mr A. M. Goulding, S. in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday, for selling liquor without a licence to do so. Fined for Overcharging. A fine of £2 was imposed in the Magistrates’ Court, Lower Hutt, yesterday, on George Lunnis Munday, a butcher, for the sale of a forequarter of hogget mutton for 5s 3d, when the correct charge under Price Order 98 should have been 4s Bd. Successful Dance. There was a large attendance at the Masonic Hall, Masterton, last night when Hansell’s internouse team held a championship dance to mark their success in the Wairarapa Interhouse Association’s recent marching contest. The music was supplied by Mrs V. J. Ashton's orchestra. Egg Marketing. The setting up of special egg marketing areas in the Wairarapa is noti- 1 fled by advertisement in today’s issue. All Wairarapa towns or country centres, including Pirinoa, Alfredton,' Pongaroa, Tinui and Mauriceville are included in the areas established under the pool arrangements. A list of egg depots for the various areas is given. The Thomas George Macarthy Trust. Applications are invited by the Public Trustee for grants from the amount becoming available under the T. G. Macarthy Trust for distribution to charitable and educational institutions in the provincial district of Wellington. Applications must be made on special forms to be obtained from the District Public Trustee, Wellington, and must be lodged with that officer not later than February 28, 1943. Munition Workers Needed. Vacancies exist, it is stated, for hundreds of girl munition workers. Girls of average physique are required and no previous experience is necessary. Accommodation is available at reasonable cost and will be organised by the Y.W.C.A. Wages of £4 6s per week and over can be earned if the girls wish to work a reasonable amount of overtime. Inquiries should be made to the District Manpower Officer (Mr Crosbie), Masterton. Ballroom Replaces Church. The removal of a church so that a ballroom might be extended for the occasion of the first royal visit to New Zealand, was recalled at the Anniversary Day meeting of the Early Settlers’ Association, by the singing of a hymn by Mr W. B. Allen, of Carterton, the oldest member present. Mr Allen was a chorister in the church which is now the chapel in the Bolton Street cemetery, where it has stood since 1869. He recalled that it had been hauled there on skids when it was decided to enlarge a ballroom for the visit of the Duke of Edinburgh.