LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 November 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Borough Health. No cases of notifiable infectious diseases were recorded in the borough of Masterton last.month. Drivers’ Licences, The Masterton Borough Council last month issued 39 drivers’ licences making the total number issued to date for the. licensing year 1969. . The Masterton County Council issued 13 licences making 1037 issued to date. Youth Killed. While James Arthur McQueen, aged 19, was riding a horse along a street in Dunedin on Friday afternoon the girth of the saddle broke and he was thrown heavily, sustaining injuries to which, he succumbed on Saturday morning. Local Body Elections. The Otago Harbour Board, when considering estimates for the year 1943-44, considered an item of £lOOO for the local body election next May. It considered that such an expense multiplied many times throughout the Dominion was not warranted, specially when deferment might enable returned service men to offer their services. The board decided to represent to the Government that the local body elections be postponed till 1945. Fight With Wild Boar. Using his pack in the best toreador tradition, a tramper knifed and killed a wild board which attacked him in the Tararuas recently. The tramper, Mr J. Milroy, was about half-way up Mt. Reeves when. the boar rushed at him. Warding off the boar with his pack, he plunged his knife in its side. He turned quickly as the boar came at him again’ and stabbed it a second time. After some minutes the boar fled but was pursued by Mr Milroy, who soon overtook and killed it. St. John Ambulance Dance. There was a very large attendance at a most successful dance held, in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, on Saturday night by the St. John Ambulance Brigade. The music was supplied by Mr Jack Barnes’s Rhythm Boys and extras were played by Miss B. Hawke. Mr K. Dean was M.C. A Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss McLachlan and Mr Jackson, and a lucky spot dance by Miss Stewart and Mr Delahunty, Supper was served by a ladies’ committee. The next dance will be held on November 13. A’ Paradox. The anomaly of a shortage of coal existing alongside valuable but unworked coal deposits in Golden Bay was emphasised by Mr R. W. Sparrow before executive members of the Nel-scn-Marlborough-West Coast League of Local Bodies at Murchison. The meeting decided to ask the Minister of Mmes to have immediate steps taken to open up some of the coal seams in the Collingwood district. At present, said Mr Sparrow,, only one mine, Westhaven, was working and the output from that was totally inadequate to supply the demand. The cement works and factory were using coal brought from the West Coast by sea. There were at least six coalfields in the Bay, but none of the seams had been fully tested. What was most required was an investigation to see where development could most profitably be undertaken. Mr C. T. Smith said it was a paradox that Golden Bay should have a shortage of coal when it was close handy for the mining.