LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 April 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

No Publication on Friday. The “Times-Age” will not be published on Friday (Good Friday), but will appear as usual on Saturday and Monday. Egg Supplies.

No eggs are at present on the market in Wellington. In Mastertoil restricted quantities are available through the usual channels. A New Lease-Lend.

“That is lease-lend,” said a member of the Wellington Rotary Club at yesterday’s luncheon when he was congratulated on the fact that a relative of his had -become engaged to a serviceman from the United States. Deserters Sent to Gaol.

By' sentence of courts-martial Private Frederick George Timms, 2nd N.Z.E.F., and Private John Patrick Farley have each been sentenced to a year’s jail with hard labour for desertion.

Unfair Competition Alleged. “The committee views with concern the unfair competition the Masterton butchers have to contend with through the retail sale of meat by a meat export slaughterhouse, as a consequence of which the municipal abattoirs operates at a serious disadvantage,” stated the chairman of the abattoirs, Councillor A. D. Low, at last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. Cows Killed by Train.

The Main Trunk express from Auckland arrived at Wellington about 40 minutes late yesterday morning. The cause of the delay was a collision the train had with a herd of cows that had wandered on the line near Te Kuiti, three of the animals being killed.

Lesson in Civics.

A party of students from Wairarapa College attended last night’s meeting of the Masterton Borough Council. The Mayor, Mr T. Jordan, who welcomed Miss O. R. Sutherland and her pupils, explained the proceedings to the pupils. One of the pupils returned thanks to Mr Jordan for his explicit explanation of the Council’s procedure. Street Work. A total of 3 miles 75 chains of streets were resurfaced, 7 miles 4 chains of street flanks and 5 miles 69 chains of footpaths were tarred and sanded in the Masterton borough during the past 12 months ending March 31. A total of 41 chains of kerbing were laid. This information was contained in the annual report of the borough engineer, Mr C. R. Mabson, presented to the council at its meeting last night. Prefabricated Houses. Designed by the State Housing Department to ascertain the possibilities of prefabrication, precutting and standardisation of factory-made component parts, and the speeding-up of housing construction, five experimental prefabricated houses situated in Nai Nai Lane, in the Epuni district, Lower Hutt, have been completed. They are the first of their type in New Zealand.