LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 May 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Duck Shooting Tragedy. George Wayte, aged 41, farmer, of Mandeville (51 miles north-east of Invercargill), married, with two children, was accidentally killed yesterday while duck shooting. Central School Dance. The floor was crowded at the Masterton Central School Home and School Association’s dance, held at the school on Saturday night. A feature of the dance was the splendid music provided by Mrs V. J. Ashton’s orchestra. Extras were played by Messrs T. Udy and J. McGregor. Under the capable direction of the M.C., Mr W. R. Nicol, proceedings went with a pronounced swing. Supper was served by a committee of ladies. Rationing of Eggs. New South Wales, which produces 50 per cent of Australia’s eggs and exports more than the total New Zealand production, is this week coming under a form of egg rationing. Retailers are having their supplies cut by 33 per cent. The chairman of the New South Wales Marketing Board, Mr R. C. Blake, who is also assistant Commonwealth Controller of Egg Supplies, interviewed in Wellington yesterday, said that the reason for this action was a shortage, partly seasonal, but caused chiefly by the increased demands of the armed forces. The rationing, he said, would continue for at least two months. Free French Party Welcomed. Thirty men of the Free French forces, hardened fighters and toughened by desert warfare, accompanied a party of men who recently returned to New Zealand from the Middle East. They had seen stiff fighting at Bir el Hackeim. With the returned New Zealanders, they were cordially welcomed back by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, who met among the party men who had been away with the First and Second Echelons and had fought right up to the battle of El Alamem. Two of the « New Zealanders had actually got as far as Tripoli, from where one was flown back to Cairo in seven hours as a passenger in a big troop-carrying plane. Maori Soldiers Praised. Warm praise for the splendid fighting qualities of the Maori soldiers serving overseas was expressed by the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, and other speakers when a parade of more than 600 Maori members of the Home Guard was held at Wanganui yesterday. Mr Fraser spoke of the heroic exploits of the Maori soldiers in Greece, Crete, Libya, Tripoli and Tunisia and referred in particular to the storming of Takrouna heights. Maori personnel in the area from New Plymouth to Otaki, including National Park, Taumarunui, and the Wanganui River districts, attended the rally, the largest gathering of its kind ever held in Wanganui. They came by three special trains yesterday morning and departed in the evening.

Japanese Spy System. The open manner in which the Japanese carried on their spying activities in Singapore and Siam was mentioned at the Citizens’ Lunch Club at Palmerston North on Friday by Mr H. J. Minchin, in an address on those two countries. It was a common sight in any part of the Malay peninsula to find in every little village a Japanese photographer whose living could not have been sustained by local work. In the Johore Strait area, thousands of Japanese fishermen worked, and they undoubtedly knew the waters as well as any British authority. He had even found a spy in his own school class. Cervices of Intercession. Intercessory services were held in Masterton churches yesterday. At St. Matthew’s the Ven. Archdeacon E. J. Rich spoke on ‘‘The Power of Prayer” and illustrated his sermon by an address given by a Canadian, General Vanier, D. 5.0., M.C., in which the General recently appealed for a morQ sincere faith in prayer. The Rev. David McNeur conducted services at Lansdowne, Kopuaranga and Rangitumau, at which special prayers were offered. At the Knox, the Methodist and the Baptist churches, prayers were offered in conformity with the call for a national day of prayer for the Allied cause. Air Training Corps. The weekly routine orders for No. 21 Squadron, Air Taining Corps, Masterton, state, inter alia; —Parades, A and B Flights, Monday, May 3, and Thursday, May 6, at 6.50 p.m., at Wairarapa College, Masterton; C Flight, Tuesday, May 4, and Thursday, Mar 3, at 6.50 p.m., at Carterton District High School. Syllabus, Monday, May 3: A Flight, Mathematics and Navigation; B Flight, Mathematics and Science; Tuesday, May 4, C Flight, Mathematics, Navigation and Science; Thursday, May 6, A and B Flights, Drill, Signals, Basic Fitting and P.T.; C Flight, Drill, P.T., Signals and Gas. Cadet R. L. Sayer has been awarded the Physical Training Instructor’s Badge. Cadet D. G. Shouler has been promoted to the rank of Corporal. New Post Office Site. The purchase by the Post and Telegraph Department of the Waldorf Building and site in Manners Street, Wellington, was announced on Saturday by the Postmaster-General, Mr Webb. He said the department intended to utilise the site when circumstances permitted for the erection of an up-to-date building with a post office on the ground floor and offices above. In the meantime, the Allied Services Club and other tenants would be allowed to continue in occupation. The former owner of the property was Mr Will Appleton. It was taken under the Pub lie Works Act, and it is understood that the price was about £40,000. The area is approximately one-quarter of an acre, with a frontage of 63ft. to Manners Street and a depth of 219 ft. For heavy Chest Colds — Woods’ Great Peppermint Cure. 25 W. E. Woods Ltd., Lambton Quay, Wellington.