LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 July 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fingers Lacerated. Frederick D. Todd, aged 19 years, a motor mechanic, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday with lacerated fingers which he received when he caught his hand between a motor car tire and a mudguard.

Mining Rights Case. The Court of Appeal adjourned yesterday till August 25 with the Onekaka iron mining rights case only partly heard. The hearing began a week before, and is expected to occupy the Court for another week.

A Long Journey. A letter written in Wellington, New Zealand, on Christmas Eve, 1941, arrived in a German prison camp last January, after a 13-month cruise round the world. Through being addressed to Stalag VII B, instead of Stalag VIII B, the letter was sent all round Germany, including a visit to the Fuehrer's own estate, finally reaching the prisoner for whom it was intended. Food Reserves. The fact that before Japan entered the war New Zealand had accumulated £750,000 worth of reserve foodstuffs was mentioned by the Food and Rationing Controller, Mr J. E. Thomas, in an address at Wellington yesterday. He said that the gradual release of those goods on the market as the need arose had softened the impact of shortages. The commercial community had done a wonderful job in that respect, keeping the goods on their shelves sometimes as long as 18 months. That had been done with rice, sago and tapioca, and the price had been kept down in consequence. Theft of Postal Packets. Thirteen charges of stealing postal packets of a total value of £l4 10s 3d, were preferred against Daphne Clara Bremner, postal officer, aged 39, in the Magistrates’ Court, Wellington, yesterday. Mr W. F. Stilwell, S.M., entered a conviction in each case, and fined her £5 on one charge and ordered her to come up for sentence on another if called on within 12 months. In respect of the others, she was discharged. De-tective-Sergeant W. McLennan said the offences were committed while she was working in the mailroom of the Wellington Post Office. Lost Virtues?

New Zealanders seemed to be losing the virtues of self-reliance and selfhelp, said the Mayor of Stratford Mr P. Thomson, in an address to the New Plymouth Victoria League. “For many years past,” Mr Thomson said, “our farmers have been running to the Government for help, and then aid having been given, they complain of Governmental interference. There is a flood or storm in one of our towns, and those business men who have been foolish enough to erect their premises in low-lying levels seek to make wiser men share in their loss.”

Air Training Corps. The weekly routine orders for No. 21 Squadron, Air Training Corps. Masterton, state, inter alia: Parades, A and B Flights, Monday, July 26, and Thursday, July 29, at 6.50 p.m., at Wairarapa College, Masterton. C Flight, Tuesday, July 27, and Thursday, July 29, at 6.50 p.m., King’s Theatre, Carterton. Syllabus: July 26, A flight, mathematics, science and navigation; B flight, mathematics and science. July 27, C flight, mathematics, science and navigation. July 29, A flight, drill, signals and P.T.; B flight, drill, basic fitting and P.T.; C flight, drill, P.T., signals and gas.