LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 November 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Interhouse Girls’ Meeting. A meeting of the Wairarapa Interhouse Association girls’ committee will be held above Mr C. Spiers’s library, Church Street, Masterton, tonight. Armistice Day. In commemoration of Armistice Day the Mayor of Masterton (Mr T. Jordan) requests the public of Masterton to observe two minutes silence at 11 o’clock tomorrow morning.

No New Zealand Parcels Lost. Advice has been received from London that there were no New Zealand prisoner-of-war parcels included in the 1100 parcels lost when the Red Cross ship Padua struck a mine and sank in the Mediterranean. Y.M.C.A. Cricket Team.

The Masterton Y.M.C.A. has vacancies in its cricket team and anyone wishing to play and is not already playing club cricket is asked to communicate with Mr L. M. Johansen, general secretary. Council of Sport. A resolution has been adopted by the Council of the New Zealand Amateur Rowing Association stating that after full consideration of the constitution and objects of the proposed New Zealand Council of Sport, it has decided to take no action in regard to affiliation. Probably a Record. When R. J. Gilmour recently holed his tee shot at the seventeenth hole on the Queen’s Park golf links, Invercargill, he accomplished what is known as the perfect fluke for the eighth time. This record is probably without parallel in New Zealand golf. Tennis Club Opening. The Masterton Lawn Tennis Club will hold its official opening on Saturday afternoon, wet or fine, when a Yankee tournament vzill be held. Tennis balls will not be obtainable from the club but a supply later on is assured. The club extends a cordial invitation to visitors and members of other clubs to be present. Post-War Pacific Bases. “No discussions have actually taken place on the question of the provision of bases in the Pacific, and specially in New Zealand, for the use of the United States fleet after the war,” said the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, when references to the matter in recent cabled reports were referred to him for comment. “But,” added Mr Nash, “New Zealand would at all times be willing to discuss with Australia, the United States, the Netherlands and Great Britain the question of the mutual use of bases to provide economic transport and maintain security. Obviously these are matters that will have to be discussed in connection with the general peace and security arrangements.”