LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 June 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Indoor Bowls. The Masterton Indoor Bowling Club will hold a pairs competition at 7 o’clock tonight. Teams will be drawn and players are requested to be on time. Tomorrow night the club will entertain a team from Carterton to play for the Carl Larsen trophy.

Pilfering of Cargo. The Associated Chambers of Commerce have asked business houses suffering losses from pilfering of cargo to supply detailt to local councils, so that they may be collected and collated for use as publicity in the campaign to eliminate the trouble. It was explained to the council of the Canterbury Chamber that the detailed information would be treated as confidential and only the total losses and broad classes of goods quoted in propaganda.

Jockey Killed at Ellerslie. At the Auckland Racing Club’s meeting at Ellerslie on Saturday, Brian Evans, aged 19, was killed by a fall from his mount, Kaspian, in the Greenlane Steeples. During the running of the Great Northern Hurdles, Evan’s Head fell and injured his rider, A. E. Ellis. Ellis was admitted to hospital suffering from a fractured vertebra and dislocated hip. Ellis is in plaster, and it is unlikely that he'will make a quick recovery. The injuries sustained by Evan’s Head necessitated his being destroyed.

Shortage of Accommodation. A great influx of soldiers on weekend leave created an acute accommodation problem in Auckland on Saturday. All accommodation places were early booked out, and hostels, some of which are providing for nearly double the number of men usually accepted, were then compelled to turn away. The mayor, Mr Allum, said that warning should be given before such large numbers of men were given leave to spend the night in the city. “We cannot conjure beds, blankets and sheets out of the air,” he said. Also, it was impracticable, he declared, to use the Government House Services Club for sleeping purposes.

Hospital Maintenance. A resolution protesting against the transfer of social security funds for hospital maintenance was carried by delegates to a meeting of the National Council of the Labourers’ Federation in Wellington on Friday. The resolution complained that £600,000 was to be taken from the Social Security Fund for hospitals, whereas a more beneficial community use of the fund would have been to give a greater measure of relief to families, particularly in sickness benefits. Large property holdings were, the resolution stated, being relieved to the extent of £250,000 of a responsibility which belonged to property, at the expense of the rightful owners of the social security funds. The Return of the Messiah.

Last night at the Orange Hall, Masterton, Miss Waterston gave a lantern slide lecture on two visions of Esdras concerning Armageddon and the return of Jesus Christ. The last phase of this age was portrayed as a three-headed eagle, which would consume all the smaller nations, and then the three heads (Russia, Germany and Italy) would break each other, Germany being the first to be broken. The second vision showed all the Anti-Christ powers gathered to Palestine to take world rule, destroyed by the sudden return of Christ Jesus in power and glory. Miss Waterston’s next lecture will be on Wednesday night, the subject being “Proofs that the Anglo-Saxon Peoples are Modern Israel —the use of it.”