LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Indoor Basketball. The Wairarapa Interhouse Association’s indoor basketball competition will commence in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium, Masterton, tonight. Fowlhouse on Fire. A fowlhouse on the property of Mr J. D. McDougall, 70 Cole Street, was partly destroyed by fire on Saturday evening. The Masterton Brigade received the call at 6.56 p.m., and on arrival found the fowlhouse to be well alight. There were no fowls in the shed, but other goods stored in portion of the building were damaged. Salvation Army Jubilee. On April 1, 1883, the Salvation Army began its work in New Zealand, “opening fire on the city of Dunedin with an attacking force of only, three officers.” Yesterday the army celebrated its diamond jubilee with a congress in Wellington. A large meeting held in the Opera House in the afternoon was addressed by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, the mayor of Wellington, Mr Hislop, and the territorial commander of the army, Commissioner J. Evan Smith.

Prisoners of War.

Advice has been received by the New Zealand Government . that the following are prisoners of war interned in: —Malaya: Captain A. R. Hughes, N.Z. Government Agent, Colombo (wife, Dr Elizabeth Hughes, Auckland), Mr K. W. Manning, Rubber Estate Agency, Ltd., Malaya (wife, Mrs K. W. Manning, Auckland). Captain Jack Baird, Federated Malay States Volunteer Force (wife, Mrs R. H. Baird, Kohimaramara, Auckland). Hong Kong: Stanley Camp, Miss Margaret North, nurse, Military Hospital, Hong Kong '(father, Mr W. B. North, Nelson) . Harry Kin Hong Long, Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Force (mother, Mrs Ah Long, Greymouth). Miss Margaret Jennings, missionary, not interned (sister, Mrs G. O. Harding Petone).

A Restriction Removed.

The removal of the restriction on the sale of rubber hot-water bags through ordinary trade channels was announced on Saturday by the Minister of Supply, Mr Sullivan. He said that chain stores and other trading concerns had supplies of bags which generally speaking were of a type not suitable for hospital use. An adequate number of bags for use in hospitals, both public and private, had been assured, and were being held in reserve. It had therefore been decided, now that the needs of hospitals were covered, that the bags in the possession of the various trading concerns could be sold in the ordinary way, without the necessity for a doctor’s prescription being presented at a chemist’s shop as Was the case last winter. It was hoped that the trading concerns would attempt to apportion them as equitably as possible among the purchasing public.