LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 March 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Bowling Tourney Abandoned. The executive of the Wellington Bowling Centre decided last night to abandon the Easter tournament this year. It was reported that only a few greens would be available for play by Easter, and several delegates said that, though the centre would be reluctant to allow a break to occur in annual tournaments, the lack of greens left it with no alternative. Easter Holidays. In a joint statement issued last night, the Minister of Supply and Munitions, Mr Sullivan, and the Minister of Labour, Mr Webb, announced that the War Cabinet had decided that, subject to the war situation and war requirements at the time, the holiday period Good Friday, April 23, Saturday, April 24, and Easter Monday, April 26, would be observed as usual. Where workers were called on to work they should be paid the appropriate rates. Shortweight Bread. An inquiry whether the present method of checking up on short-weight bread was adequate to safeguard the public interest was made by Mr Lee (Democratic Labour, Grey Lynn) in notice of a question to the Minister of Industries and Commerce, Mr Sullivan, in the House of Representatives yesterday. He said that complaints had reached him about the large amount of short-weight bread being sold. Maori Carved Pipe. A treasured possession of a local resident is an exquisitely executed piece of Maori carving in the form of a pipe which is stated to date back to the time of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. The bowl of the pipe was carved from a piece of maire and takes the shape of a Maori chief’s head with a smaller pipe in his mouth. The features and the tattoo marks are delicately shaped to the smallest detail. The work is of a high standard of craftsmanship. Inset pieces of paua shell give lifelike expression to the eyes and where the stem of the pipe joins the bowl a tuatara lizard has been finely carved around the stem. Industrial Decentralisation. Forty representatives of extra-urban seats in the House of Representatives have formed themselves into an Industrial Decentralisation Committee to advocate the establishment of industries in the secondary towns of the Dominion with a view to relieving congestion in the cities and the populating of the semi-rural areas. The formation of the committee was the outcome of a suggestion made to members representing these seats by Mr C. L. Carr (Timaru), at the request of the South Canterbury Chamber of Commerce and the Timaru Borough Council. A sub-committee of the following members has been appointed: Messrs Carr (chairman), H. J. D. Acland (Temuka), F. L. Frost (New Plymouth), W. M. C. Denham (Invercargill), H. G. Dickie (Patea), E. P. Meachen (Marlborough), J. Hodgens (Palmerston North), A. F. Moncur (Rotorua), and C. W. Boswell (Bay of Islands). Mr Boswell is secretary.

Infantile Paralysis. Two cases of infantile paralysis diagnosed yesterday were those of a girl aged 5 in Christchurch, and a boy aged 3 in Hokitika. During the weekend a Christchurch child of three was diagnosed as a positive case. Boy Drowned in River. When a boat in which he was playing came adrift from its moorings, John Conroy, aged seven years, was drowned in the Tongaporutu River about 4 o’clock on Monday afternoon. Evidently in a fright he jumped into fairly deep water. His body was recovered two hours later. New Bridge Proposed. It was decided at yesterday’s meeting of the Masterton County Council to seek the co-operation of the Wairarapa South County Council in replacing the Taueru River Bridge at Te Whiti, on the Masterton-Martinborough main highway. “The bridge is in a pretty bad way,” said the chairman, Mr R. E. Gordon Lee. Counties’ Conference. In reply to an inquiry from the New Zealand Counties’ Association the Masterton County Council decided yesterday in favour of the annual conference of the association being held. The last conference was held in 1938. The chairman, Mr R. E. Gordon Lee, said that the conference could well discuss rehabilitation matters and urge that the Government’s Soil Conservation Committee should become active. Payment to Councillor. Strong exception was taken by Councillor J. W. Colquhoun, at the meeting of the Masterton County Council yesterday, to a paragraph in the minutes of the preceding meeting: “That Councillor Moore be paid the sum of £3 for proceeding to Wellington to interview the authorities concerning the establishment of a limestone pit at Abbotsford.” After extended discussion, a resolution was passed, on the motion of Councillor Colquhoun: “That the sum of £3 cover mileage and other expenses incurred by Councillor Moore in securing signatures to a petition urging the council to purchase land for a lime pit at Abbotsford, to the date of the last meeting.” For Benefit of Ex-soldiers. Under the will of the late Marion Campbell, Hawera, a share in the residue of her estate has been left to the N.Z.R.S.A. “for the benefit of sick, wounded or distressed soldiers who took part in the war of 1914-1918 or the present war, to be applied by the association as it should in its absolute discretion think fit.” A first instalment of £l4OO has been received by the association from the estate’s solicitors. Recently the Dominion executive committee of the N.Z.R.S.A. has received several other bequests for the benefit of ex-servicemen. Holding that a bequest of £2OOO by the late Mrs Marion Campbell, Hawera, for the building of a memorial—in the form of a Peter Pan statue or similar monument in King Edward Park, Hawera—to her late husband, was a gift constituting a charitable trust and is exempt from succession duty, Mr Justice Johnson has given his reserved judgment at ‘ Wellington.