LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Fall From Cart. William Scheliin, aged 7 years, of the Railway Settlement, Masterton, was admitted to hospital yesterday afternoon with a fractured left forearm which he received in a fall from a cart. Dance at Hastwells. The Hastwells Maori Tribal Committee held a well attended dance in the BEastwells Hall last night in aid of the Maori War Effort Funds. Mr R. Tamihana, secretary, was responsible for the arrangements and the gathering proved most enjoyable. The Kowhai Flood. The maximum flood of each year in olden days was known to coincide with the blossoming of the kowhai, whether late or early in September. Both Maori and pakeha referred to it as “Te Waipuke Kowhai.” With the early bloom this year, the Maoris say the danger has passed. Grant from Nuffield Trust. At a meeting in Wellington of the board of trustees of the Nuffield Trust for the Benefit of Crippled Children, provision was made for a grant of £2540 to the New Zealand Crippled Children Society (Inc.), which the society will distribute between its seventeen branches throughout the Dominion. Prime Minister at Dunedin. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, had an enthusiastic reception from an audience of 2000 in the Town Hall at Dunedin last night, when he delivered a political address in the course of his present campaigning tour. At the close of the meeting a vote of thanks and confidence in the Prime Minister and of continued confidence in the Labour Government was carried by acclamation. Minister in Charge of Aliens. The Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, announced at Timaru that matters appertaining to enemy aliens, particularly to their custody when interned as well as employment, would in future be administered by Mr Perry, who had been appointed Minister in Charge of Aliens. This arrangement would relieve MiMason, who had administered these duties with great credit, tact and ability. Mr Perry had been asked to assume these duties in addition to those he was already exercising as Minister of Armed Forces and War Co-ordination. Interhouse Dance. The Wairarapa Interhouse Association’s dance held in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, last night, was largely attended. The armed forces were well represented. The music was played by Mrs Ashton's Orchestra and an extra was played by Miss Ngaire Marsh. The M’s.C. were Messrs L. Askew and F. Stains. A Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss N. Stains and P.F.C. L. Stafford. of the Marine Corps. Supper was served by Hansell’s basketball team. On Monday night at 8 o’clock the annual meeting of the association will be held in the Y.M.C.A. rooms. Opposition Leader’s Tour. “Everywhere the policy of the National Party was-splendidly received,” said the leader, Mr Holland, in a brief review in Wellington yesterday of the first section of his North Island itinerary, which will be resumed on September 19. “Many believed some months ago that no interest would be taken in the general election campaign, but my experience has convinced me that the people are as deeply interested in political questions as in the days of peace. They have had eight years in which to form their judgment of Labour administration and more than three years of the Fraser Government, and the thousands of electors I have addressed so far have welcomed the National Party’s policy as a constructive plan of a party which has the will, and the capacity to put its plan for a better government and a happier coun-| try into operation.”