Ploughing Accident.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 December 1943, Page 2

Ploughing Accident.

William Taueki, aged 22 years, of Gladstone, was admitted to the Masterton Hospital yesterday afternoon with contusions to his face which he received when he fell under a roller while he was engaged in ploughing. Heavy Rain. Heavy rain, fell in Masterton for a brief period before noon today. The channels were unable to cope with the flow of water, which backed up over the roadways and paths in places. The rain will prove beneficial to gardens. War Insurance. Entire removal of the compulsory war damage insurance premium was advocated in a resolution of the council of the North Island Motor Union yesterday. The resolution drew attention to the war situation and the fact that the Government has already removed some restrictions imposed when * the country was in greater danger from the enemy. Parliamentary Library Books. After having been stored in Masterton for safety during the period of emergency following Japan’s entry in the war, books of' the Parliamentary Library are now being packed and despatched back to 'Wellington. Temporary shelving was erected to hold the books, and in the big earthquake of last year’ the shelves were overturned and the books scattered on the floor. No harm resulted to them, however, although the building itself suffered some damage. Ban Lifted. Commenting on the report at the annual meeting of the New Zealand Astronomical Society, held in Wellington on Wednesday night, that copies of the society’s journal posted to the U.S.S.R. Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries had been returned, in accordance with a censorship order, the Controller of Censorship, Mr G. McNamara, said yesterday that the restriction had recently been lifted. Mr McNamara said that early in 1941, following the practice adopted in the United Kingdom, restrictions had been imposed on the dispatch of aff communications by the post to certain neutral countries, particularly those which were adjacent to enemy or en-emy-occupied territories. The purpose of this was to prevent information contained in such publications which might be of value to the enemy from reaching an enemy source.