LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 February 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Rubber Drive. Saturday’s waste rubber drive in Dunedin realised 4000 motor tires and more than 10 tons of miscellaneous goods. There have still to be collected large supplies at garages, service stations and business premises.

Storekeeper Fined. In the Magistrates’ Court, Te Aroha, D. Lewis, storekeeper, Waihou, was fined £lO, with costs, for selling a pound of butter for Is 7d, the Price Tribunal rate being Is 6d. Defendant said he considered he could make a booking charge. Fined for Changing Name. An unusual case was heard in the Magistrates’ Court, Palmerston North, yesterday, when James Ernest McKinlay was charged with having used a name other than that by which he was known at the date of the coming into force of the Change of Name Emergency Regulations, 1939. A fine of £5 with 10s costs was imposed. Farmer Found Dead. Mr Albert Edwin Redshaw, aged 42, a farmer at Elstow, near Te Aroha, for the past 20 years, attended a dance at Elstow under the auspices of the local farewelling committee on Saturday evening. Before midnight he left for his home on his cycle and was found dead on the road near his gate at 4 o’clock the next morning. He leaves a wife and five children. As he had been in indifferent health no inquest will be necessary. Training College Students. Education boards throughout the Dominion are still waiting for the implementation of the War Cabinet’s decision to release training college students under 20 years of age from the Army. No further progress had been made in the negotiations between the education boards and the Minister of Defence, said the secretary of the Wellington Education Board, Mr W. I. Deavoll, yesterday. The release of the students would permit all to finish half their training in a period of 18 months; many accepted for the training colleges had gone straight into the Army without receiving any of their training, while many others had been at college for only a few months. Echo of Large Fire. An echo of a large fire in the city on August 19, 1941, when John Burns and Co’s premises were extensively damaged, was heard in the Auckland Supreme Court yesterday when the widow of the late Francis Harold Baker, an employee of Burns and Co., who received fatal injuries as a result of the fire, claimed through the ; Public Trustee £4050 damages from several defendants, including the': Auckland Power Board, John Burns i and Co., and the electrical engineering ; firm of H. K. Brown and Co. The 1 startling defence of contributory negli- i gence was raised, said counsel for the ( defence, but he proposed to lead' evi- ] dence to show that Baker was j “groggy” when he tried to descend by I the ropes. The case is proceeding and t the hearing is expected to last sev- { eral day?. t

A Generous Gift. A generous gift of £2OO in cash an £2OO in 1956 three per cent inscribe stock has been made by Mrs J. G. Gil christ, Christchurch, to the Commei i cial Travellers’ and Warehousemen’ i Association of Otago on behalf of th s Blind Sailors' and Soldiers' Fund. Y Earthquake Repair Work. Earthquake repair work is at presen being Carried out to the building o , Fagan Motors Ltd., at the corner o 5 Bannister Street and Dixon Streel i Masterton. Opportunity is being mad' > to round off the corner of the build t ing to give better visibility for stree i traffic and to include show windows oi the Dixon Street frontage, State Flats in Auckland. “The properties in Grey Avenue ’ Auckland, which were purchased bj ( the Housing Department, and to whicl , the Auckland City Council contributec ’ £25,000, have been completely surveyed, and the buildings to be erected on the west side of the street have been designed,” said the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, speaking in Auckland as Minister in Charge of Housing. A model of the 130 flats on the western side had been made, Mr Fraser continued, and clearly demonstrated that ’the buildings would provide not only housing, but something entirely new from an architectural standpoint in the city of Auckland. American Servicemen and Petrol. A new suggestion that additional petrol should be supplied to taxi drivers by the United States authorities from their own stocks in order that the demands of American servicemen for taxis might be satisfied was made by Mr J. A. C. Allum at a meeting of the Auckland Metropolitan Transport Licensing Authority. It was stated that the Commissioner of Transport, Mr Laurenson, would be in Auckland this week and would confer with the authorities responsible for the control of taxi services. The authority accordingly decided to adjourn consideration of various applications for taxi licences for a fortnight. Anzac Division in U.S.A. Advice has been received from New York that Mr Harold Rabling has been appointed chairman of the Anzac Division of the British War Relief Society of the United States, in succession to Mr Alick McD. McLean. Major J. W. Findlay, formerly of New Zealand, has been appointed vicechairman. Mr Rabling, an old boy of Wesley College, Wellington, is now resident director of the Vacuum Oil Company in New York. Before he became chairman, Mr Rabling was vicechairman and treasurer of the Anzac Division. This organisation was previously known as the Anzac War Relief Fund of New York, but, with the entry of the United States into the war it merged with the British War Relief Society. One of the latest activities of the Anzac Division is the Anzac Club which was formed recently in New York. The club has attractive premises where Australian and New Zealand airmen training in Canada and similar visitors to America’s greatest city may call and be entertained. It is a great success.