High Price for Strawberries.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 November 1943, Page 2

High Price for Strawberries.

New season’s strawberries, from Auckland, have made their appearance on the Wellington market. Good quality “Captain Cooks’’ were being sold retail yesterday at 6s 6d a large-size punnet.

Smoking in Taxi. A woman- taxi-driver, admitting in the Magistrates’ Court, Christchurch, that she had smoked in her cab while it was under hire, was ordered to pay costs. The traffic inspector who prosecuted, stated that it was the first case of its kind, but that there was an “awful lot of it going on."

Employment of Land Girls. The chairman of the Wairarapa Primary Production Council, Mr R. W. Kebbell, stated today that many local land girls were leaving the district for employment in other areas. He urged Wairarapa farmers to make use of the opportunity of employing in the district local girls.

Newspaper Wanted. The Masterton Women's Patriotic Committee will pack 2,330 parcels for soldiers overseas in the next few days. As there is now no waste paper depot in Masterton, the committee is short of newspaper. Three sheets are used in each parcel so that some 7,000 sheets arc required. Those having newspapers to spare are asked to leave them with the Town Clerk, Mr G. T. O’Hara Smith, at his office in the Municipal Buildings. , R.S.A. Social Gathering.

Al; a social gathering held in the Masonic Hall, Masterton, last night there was a large attendance of members of the Wairarapa Returned Services Association. The president, Mr H. J. Brass, who presided, welcomed the Dominion president of the N.Z. R.S.A., Mr B. J. Jacobs, and BrigadierGeneral Sir Herbert Hart, who had just returned from the Middle East. The Wairarapa Association’s rules were amended to enable members of the Merchant Navy to join the association.