LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interhouse Display. Hansell’s interhouse team, which is taking part in the big interhouse marching display at .Wanganui on Saturday, is Reaving Masterton on Friday. Many teams from various centres will be competing at the display. Toe H Club Closed. It was announced at yesterday’s meeting of the Wellington Metropolitan Patriotic Committee that, as the call on its services was not so great as formerly, it was decided to close down the Toe H Servicemen’s Club, Lambton Quay, Wellington. , The equipment would be returned to the committee for reissue. Swimming Carnival. A reminder is given of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association’s swimming carnival, which is to be held in the Dixon Street Baths, Masterton, tomorrow evening, weather permitting. An interesting programme has been arranged and it is expected that there will be a large attendance of United service men. Plunket Society. The hon. treasurer of the Masterton branch of the Plunket Society desires to acknowledge the following subscriptions: —Mrs R. Shaw, £1 Is; Mrs H. R. Keltie, £1; Mrs H. McLean, 15s; Mesdames Bibby, Peterson and W. F. Wainscott, 10s each; Mesdames S. R. Kenny, A. J. Chappell, A. R. Fairbrother, E. W. Wenham, J. E. Hopkirk, S. Gawith, A. F. Oliver, B. J. Roach, H. P. Glen, M. E. Lenz, E Percy, W. Fawcett, H. Jones, Goodhue, Strickland, M. D. White, Lett, O. T. Young, H. S. Pickering, Peters, Perry, M. F. Turnbull, J. Edwards, F. M. Cunningham, Glendinning, Jones and Bradley, all ss. Price of Milk. Usually towards the end of September the price of milk in Wellington changes from what is known as the winter price to that ‘ of the summer. Last year, however, the winter price was continued right through by both the city corporation’s milk department and the near-by farmers, no notification being made to the public of the change in the usual order. This was brought under the notice of the Price Fixation Tribunal, with the result that a drop in the price was ordered as from tomorrow. It was stated that the continuation of the winter price through the summer was governed by the increased price given producers by the Government last August. Under the order of the Tribunal the price of milk in Wellington will recede from 7d to 6>d a quart tomorrow.