Farmer’s Fatal Fall.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 May 1943, Page 2

Farmer’s Fatal Fall.

Charles Fortescue Adams, a farmer, aged 69, a patient in the Dunedin Hospital, was found lying' at the foot of a fire escape in the hospital grounds yesterday, and died a few minutes latei from his injuries. It was apparent that Mr Adams, who was a married man living at Beaumont, had had a fall.

Optimist Club Meeting. A meeting of members of the Masterton Optimist Club was held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms-last night, when it was decided to hold the opening tea meeting in the Y.M.C.A. at 5.30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 4. The meeting will take the form of a club night, and a full attendance is requested. New members will be especially welcome.

A Remarkable Coincidence. A rather remarkable coincidence is related in connection with the birth of a baby girl in Masterton. The father, who is on active service overseas, and the mother could not come to a decision as to the name of the child. Eventually the father cabled that the mother could choose a name herself. Later the girl was christened Carol Ann. Before this was known to the father he explained the circumstances to his. soldier friends in camp, and, after discussing the matter, the soldiers voted in favour of Carole Anne-,being the name foi’ the baby.. This decision was communicated to the mother, who learned with surprise that the service men had selected the same names as she had, with the only difference being an e added to each at the end.

Minister and Farmers.

“Whenever he addresses meetings of farmers he stirs up strife and ill feeling,” said Mr J. S. Elliot at a meeting of the Otago Provincial Council of the New Zealand Farmers’ Union, when he submitted a remit from the Middlemarch branch expressing complete lack of confidence in the Minister of Agriculture, Mr Barclay. The remit added that the branch considered Mr Barclay’s attitude throughout his term of office njot only unsympathetic, but antagonistic toward the interests of the farmers, and in the interests of national unity asked that he resign. A resolution was finally carried in the following terms:—“ln the interests of national unity and in view of the widespread unrest among the farming community the Minister be urged to adopt a more sympathetic attitude to farmers’ problems.” • •