Political Meetings.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 August 1943, Page 2

Political Meetings.

Mr G. H. Mackley. National Candidate for the Masterton seat, addressed a meeting of supporters at Eketahuna yesterday afternoon and one at Alfredton last evening. Both meetings were well attended.

Indoor Basketball.

The Wairarapa Interhouse Association's indoor basketball competition will be brought to a close in the Y.M.C.A. gymnasium on Monday night. Two of the matches, Rangers A v Codys and Lancers v Codys, will have a bearing on the championship result. The draw is as follows: Borthwicks v Hansells B, 7.0; McKenzies v Woolworths, 7.18; Rangers A v Codys, 7.36; Rangers B v Cathies B, 7.48; W.F.C.A. v Cathies A, 8.12; Sparklets v Hosiery Mills, 8.30; United v Macduffs, 8.48; Lancers v Codys, 9.6.

Free Kindergarten.

At the monthly meeting of the Masterton Free Kindergarten, Mrs C. J. Williams presided. It was decided to wrote to the Minister of Education with a view to obtaining information regarding the early erection of the Free Kindergarten building in Masterton. Mr Jacobsen has offered to move the present fence on the section in College Street to the footpath boundary and to erect a gate. Mr Davies has offered to trim the trees on the section. It was reported that good progress had been made with the making of children's garments for the shop day, and sewing afternoons will be held every third Tuesday and last Thursday in the month.

Dance In Masonic Hall. The Masonic Half, Masterton. was crowded last night when the Rangers Indoor basketball team and the staff at Masterton Hospital, combined to hold a most enjoyable dance. The music was supplied by the “After Beat” orchestra, and an extra was played by Miss B. Hawke. Mr J. Bruce was a capable M.C. A. Lucky Spot dance was won by Miss R. Kemp and Mr Huffman and a Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss J. Chamberlain and Mr L. Nation. By popular request Miss Waireka Nini contributed songs. Supper was served by a ladies’ committee. Special thanks are extended by the organisers of the dance for the assistance given by Messrs V. G. Davis, F. Stains and J. Bruce of the Wairapa Interhouse Association. Request to Stop Aggregation.

Believing it wrong in principle that farmers held on appeal or with sons so held should be allowed to buy more land, the New Plymouth Rehabilitation Committee was decided to ask the Minister of National Service, the Hon. A. McLagan, what steps he intended to take to stop such aggregation. “It would strengthen the hands of the district manpower officer if he had a ruling on the point,” a member commented. The subject was raised at an earlier meeting of the committee when it was decided to draw the attention of the No. 8 Armed Forces Appeal Board to three alleged instances of aggregation. One man sold 100 acres of freehold and purchased a valuable farm of 400 acres in another part of the North Island. Another farmer who purchased additional land held his son on appeal, the latter being unmarried. A third farmer held on appeal already had a substantial area of land, but purchased an extra 144 acres.

The Fruit Industry.

Private sales of fruit was the subject of a discussion at the fruit conference at Wellington yesterday. Mr M. Goldsbury (Canterbury) urged that the limit of two cases should be abolished. It was a private market and the most economic way of trading.' Moreover, many of the small traders depended on consumer trade for a livelihood. However, the conference endorsed the regulation imposing a limit. The view that the establishment of a nursery by the Federation was a definite step towards the stabilisation of the industry was expressed by Dr G. H. Cunningham, Director of the Plant Diseases Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. An area of nineteen acres had been obtained at Levin, and it was proposed to produce only trees of quality. The nursery would supply a much-needed commodity without competing with established commercial nurseries.