Baths to be Closed on Saturday.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 March 1943, Page 2

Baths to be Closed on Saturday.

The Masterton public baths will be closed for the season on Saturday next. Patriotic Fund. In yesterday’s list of donations to the 1943 Patriotic Appeal an amount of £lO credited to the W.F.CiA. should have read the Masterton branch of the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union. Sly-grog Sellers Sent to Gaol. Two women, one of whom received a term of three months, and two men were sentenced to imprisonment by Mr J. H. Luxford, S.M., in the Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, for having sold liquor without a licence. The magistrate commented that the penalties for sly-grog cases were totally inadequate, and unless there were special mitigating circumstances, the maximum, penalties would be imposed in all cases. Potato Grading. Mr R. H. Brewerton, president of the Wairarapa Grain and Seed Merchants’ Association stated fhis morning that Mr H. E. Gardner, of Masterton, who was some time ago appointed grader to the New Zealand Grain, Seed and Produce Merchants’ Federation (Inc.) has been busy during past weeks grading peas and potatoes for export. Mr Brewerton said that Mr Gardner would shortly supervise the crating of potatoes for the forces. To his mind the demand for potatoes this season would possibly be greater than the supply. Mr Brewerton said he had dug a section he had planted in potatoes and from twenty-fifth of an acre he had bagged eleven hundred-weight. One root gave a yield of 15 -potatoes which weighed lllbs. while another root bore 101 little potatoes totalling 12 lbs.