Town Hall Not Available.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 21 July 1943, Page 2

Town Hall Not Available.

In reply to the Registrar of Electors the Masterton Borough Council has indicated that the Municipal Hall will not be available as a polling booth for the approaching election, on account of earthquake damage. Cost of Legal Questions. Laughter was raised at today’s meeting of the Wairarapa Hospital Board when Mr W. B. Martin, a member of the board, who is an LL.B, of Cambridge, stated that it did not pay to go into legal questions as it often cost a lot of money. Sportsmen’s Big Bag. Three sportsmen had a remarkably successful day at Turangi, Taupo County, recently. The country is reported to be full of deer and rabbits. Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. the party shot 10 deer, including a 12-pointer and a 10-pointer, and rabbits were so thick that 175 were shot in two hours and a quarter. A Bird Without Wings. “When you speak or a kiwi in New Zealand you mean an All Black or a soldier in the Second N.Z.E.F., but it is different in Australia,” said the Rev L. D. Fullerton, of Wagga Wagga, addressing the Auckland Optimists’ Club. “Over there a kiwi is an Australian Air Force administrative officer —a bird without wings.” Recent Diphtheria Outbreak.

The reason for the recent diphtheria outbreak in Masterton assuming such large proportions, reported Mr T. A. Russell, Borough Health Inspector, to the Masterton Borough Council last night, was the mildness of the attack and the failure of several parents to call in a doctor. In fact, one boy had been attending school in a highly infectious condition for a fortnight before discovery and others possibly for days. As soon as there was any indication that the outbreak was a school one, he and Miss Craig, of the Health Department, visited the school and took swabs of suspicious-looking throats and noses. As 50 per cent of the swabs taken were positive, it was decided to visit each home and take swabs of school children and preschool children.