LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 July 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

4, Impounding Dams Full. The Auckland impounding dams in the Waitakere Ranges, which two months, ago were empty, are now nearing their maximum holding capacity and yesterday one was overflowing for the first time since early last spring. It is expected that within a few days the other dams will also overflow and the total water in storage will be nearly 1,600,000,000 gallons. Egg Supplies. Combined Distributors, Ltd., the authority for the Wellington city distribution of eggs, state that the supply for civilian requirements this week is 12j per cent (as last week) over and above the issues for preference registrations. The wholesale prices of eggs are unchanged, namely:—Heavy grade, 3s 3d a dozen; standard, 3s Id; medium, 2s lid; and pullets, 2s 6d. Sly Grog Seller Fined. “Had you been a younger man, I would have sent you to prison,” said Mr J. L. Stout, S.M., in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday in imposing a fine of £5O and costs on John Reginald Black, cafe proprietor, aged 61, for selling liquor without a licence. Senior-Sergeant A. Barnes said that accused had served two service men with an evening meal which had included a bottle of beer, for which he charged them 6s. He had also sold them six bottles of beer for 16s.

College Parents’ Shop Day. The committee of the Wairarapa College Parents’ Association met last night to complete arrangements for the forthcoming shop day which is to be held on Wednesday, July 28, in the premises in Queen Street formerly occupied by Mr W. H. Saunders. Reports received from the various committees indicated that the stalls would be well stocked. There would be on sale meat, vegetables, clothes, novelties, cakes, biscuits, toys, books, etc. The committee solicits the co-operation of all parents in the effort as the money raised will be used to provide facilities additional to those normally pro-, vided by the Government.

Sold to Salvage Company. After at least 50 years of active service the Government steamer Hinemoa has been acquired by a salvage company. The Hinemoa is actually 67 years old but for a number of years she lay idle at Wellington, and later at Stewart Island. The Hinemoa arrived in New Zealand in 1876, having been ordered in the previous year under Sir Julius Vogel’s £10,000,000 public works loan. It was the Hinemoa which rescued the crew of the barque Spirit of the Dawn, which went ashore on Antipodes Island (460 miles S.E: by E. of New Zealand) in 1893. Twelve years later she rescued the crew of the French ship Anjou, which had been stranded on Auckland Island, and two years later she discovered the crew of the Dundonald on Auckland Island after the men had succeeded in making the perilous crossing from Disappointment Island, on which.the Dundonald was wrecked.