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LOCAL AND GENERAL

Price of Apples. Apples are only sold at two (fixed) prices at the Wellington public markets this month, fancy grade at 5s 6d a case, and commercial grade at 5s a case. For the time being, at • all events, the grade, extra fancy, has been discarded. A Big Trout. Considered by Mr T. Andrews,, the Wellington Acclimatisation Society’s ranger ,to be the largest taken in the district for 20 years, a rainbow trout which turned the scales at 1111 b was caught in the Rangitikei River last weekend by Mr L. Nelson, a local fisherman. Wine Illegally Sold. For having sold a bottle of wine to a United States Marine for 15s in a Wellington street this week, Francis Exavier Casserley, seaman, aged 19, was fined £lO by Mr A. M. Gouldirig, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. A month was allowed in which to pay the fine. Navy League Shop Day. The sum of £193/5/3 was raised yesterday by the Ladies’ Auxiliary of the Navy League as an addition to the Patriotic Funds. This sum represents the proceeds of a successful shop day held in Queen St. The winners of the competitions were: Dressing jacket, Mrs D. Brown, Worksop Road; goose, Mrs G. W. Sellar, Colombo Road; fuchsia plant, Mrs H. Mackenzie Douglas, Pownall Street. Solway Gala Day. An excellent entertainment is promised those who attend the gala to be held at the Solway Showgrounds on Saturday. Maori hakas and action songs, a display by the Wairarapa Interhouse teams, a mounted drill exhibition, a mounted wrestling contest, musical horse stalls and other attractions are included in the programme. Members of the Interhouse teams aie requested to be at Solway piomptly at 2.30 p.m. Marketing of Chewing’s Fescue. That the New Zealand Government should send a representative to America with a view to overcoming the difficulties of marketing Chewing’s fescue in the United States in view of the amount of seed held in Southland was the text of a motion passed at a representative meeting of fescue growers held at Mossburn. The seriousness of the present position is to be pointed out to the Minister of Agriculture and Mr Hamilton.

Hospital Admission. Avis Ross, aged 9 years, of 17 Villa Street, Masterton, while on her way home from school yesterday swung on a tree, fell off, and broke an arm. She was admitted to the Masterton Hospital. Her condition is reported to be satisfactory. Large Sum of Money Stolen. Burglars entered the Mount Albert Post Office, Auckland, on Monday night and blew open the doors of the strongroom. They stole about £lOO in money and a variety of stamps, including revenue, social security and national savings stamps. More Grass Fires. The Masterton Fire Brigade received calls at 11.35 a.m. and 11.40 a.m. today to grass fires in a paddock near the West School and at the top end of Short Street. Both outbreaks were in areas adjacent to the railway line. The brigade turned out smartly and soon had the fires extinguished. Free Radio Licence. “The radio regulations are being amended to enable all legally blind persons in New Zealand to be entitled to a free radio licence,” said the Minister of Broadcasting, Mr Wilson, last night. “This is an extension of the concession which in the past permitted the head of a household, if he were blind, to be issued with a radio receiving licence free.” Apples for Servicemen. Though the export of apples from New Zealand is not to be resumed in the ordinary \ way, several hundred thousand cases from this year’s Nelson crop will be made available to American forces in the Pacific. Not all of them will be going out of New Zealand. The fruit harvest' in Nelson is now approaching its peak. The crop is turning out very well and is expected to exceed 1,000,000 cases for the district. The record fruit production for Nelson was in 1941, when the output was 1,200,000 cases. Appeal for Containers. An appeal is made by the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union to all country women to donate clean face cream and ointment jars, tins and small books for sending to nurses on service in the Pacific area. It is stated that many of these nurses are stationed in remote areas, where it is very difficult to obtain containers in which to place ointment, sterile dressing, etc. Donations may be left at the F.C.D. Co., Ltd., or at the Country Women’s 'Club, Masterton. The need is an urgent one.

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Ngā taipitopito pukapuka

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 2

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Tapeke kupu
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LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 March 1943, Page 2

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