LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

The Third to Marry a Marine. When a Wellington girl married a member of the United States Marine Corps recently she was the third daughter in the family to marry a marine. Married Irish Girls.

Two of the 62 members of the New Zealand Forestry Unit who married while in Britain married Irish girls. The other men found’ their brides in 13 different English .counties and in Wales. The Irish girls—two sisters —were nurses hailing from Roscommon, near Dublin. When the wives reach New Zealand one will be Mrs N. Aitchison, of Invercargil, ,and the other Mrs S. McCarthy, of the Wairarapa.

Charges Against Doctor. Mr Justice Fair, at Auckland yesterday, refused an application for bail for George Brownlee Isdale, medical practitioner, who is to be tried on further charges of procuring miscarriage, following the jury’s failure to agree in the first trial. Counsel made the application on the grounds that accused was not in good health and required a special diet not available in prison. The judge said that arrangements could be made through the gaol surgeon to see that accused had every comfort required by his health.

Facing a Heavy Loss. Two hundred tons of butter, it is estimated, will be added to the Dominion’s dairy production in a year through the prohibition of the sale of cream by the Wellington City Council’s milk department'. Most of the cream formerly consumed will be diverted to the manufacture of butter. The municipal milk department faces a loss running into thousands of pounds through the virtual cessation of its cream trade in the, city. Supply is now confined to hospitals, those eligible to purchase cream by medical certificate and to ice-cream manufacturers, who will be supplied with two-thirds of their former requirements.

No Room for Complacency. Changes in the international situation during the past year were referred to briefly by the Minister of Supply and Munitions, Mr Sullivan, in an address at the annual conference of the Associated Chambers of Commerce at Dunedin last night. “The hard slogging by that indomitable band of heroes—our Eighth Army, in association with the American Fifth Army—gives us an indicator which points to difficulties and hard fighting ahead,” said the Minister. “We have made substantial gains, but the end is not yet in sight. There is room for satisfaction but no room for complacency. There can be no letup in our efforts. Our primaTy task is to win the war. While we realise that fact we must also appreciate that a greater task will confront'us when iwe have subjugated our enemies. The winning of the peace will call for all the co-operation, understanding, and unity that can be brought to bear. This is why the Moscow agreements are such a mighty achievement, giving a foretaste of the will to achieve lasting peace which must eyer be the ultimate goal of the Allied Nations.”

Railway Staff Dance. At the Railway staff dance held in Masterton last month £l5 15s was raised and handed over to the local Red Cross organisation. Interhouse Dance. The Wairarapa Interhouse Association will hold another of its popular’ dances in the Masonic HaZC Masterton, tonight. Features will be the excellent music, novelty dances and a good supper. Bannockburn Rainfall. Mr F. T. Day, Bannockburn, Gladstone, reports that rain fell on 17 days in October, the total registered being 3.26 in. The quantity of rain measured so far this year is 38.23 inches. Self Denial Appeal. The announcement that £33,203 had been raised by the Salvation Army selfdenial appeal this year, aq increase of £2275 over the total for last year, was made by Commissioner J. Evan Smith in Wellington last night. Accident Cases. » Mr W. H. Harcombe, of Upper Plain, slipped while stumping and fractured a wrist. He was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday, and after treatment was discharged this morning. John Wilson, aged 12 years, of Rhodes Street, Carterton, was adrriitted to hospital yesterday with an ' injured leg, which he received when he fell off a fence. Armistice Day. Citizens and traffic control authorities throughout New Zealand are requested by the Government to observe the customary practice on Armistice Day, November 11, of two minutes’ silence from 11 a.m., with the suspension of all vehicular traffic during that period. Where services are held it is suggested they should be at local cenotaphs or war memorials. Notice to this effect appears in the Gazette issued last night. Manufacture of Tennis Balls. Five thousand dozen tennis balls will be made available to civilian players throughout the Dominion during the 1943-44 season, and a further 2000 dozen will be allocated to New Zealand and Allied servicemen. With the assistance of volunteer women workers from Auckland tennis clubs, production has commenced at the Penrose works of Reid New Zealand Rubber Mills, Ltd., but unforeseen delays have prevented the flow of production from reaching any large volume. Smoking in Non-Smoking Carriages. The Railways Department is anxious to check a tendency on the part of the travelling public to disregard the definition between smoking and nonsmoking carriages, and there are frequent complaints regarding smoking in non-smoking compartments. Railway guards and ticket collectors are constantly endeavouring to detect offenders, several of whom have recently been prosecuted. The Department states that for the most part offences of this nature occur at times calculated to escape official observation and it is by no means easy to acquire evidence in support of prosecutions.