LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 13 December 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Auckland Burglary. Burglars who broke into the drapery premises of Flackson’s, in Karangahape Road, Auckland, on Friday night blew open a safe and decamped with £l5O in cash. Entrance was gained through an unlocked window on the roof.

Theft of Stockings. There has been scarcely a day in the last six months in which one Christchurch manufacturing and importing firm has not suffered some loss from pillaging, according to a report supplied by the firm to the Canterbury Manufacturers’ Association. The latest loss, last week, was 15 dozen pairs of women’s stockings from a case of hosiery consigned from Wellington. The firm stated that though there had had been a big increase of such thefts in the last six months, goods from the south were not tampered with. Odd Fellows’ Dance. The Masonic Hall, Masterton, was filled with dancers on Saturday night When the Masterton Odd Fellows’ Lodge held a most successful dance. The music was supplied by Mr J. Barnes’s Rhythm Boys and extras were played by members of the orchestra. Community singing led by the M.C., Bro. B. J. Seddon, was enjoyed and under Mr Seddon’s direction proceedings went with a swing. A Monte Carlo waltz was won by Miss N. Clay and Mr Mangham. Supper was served by a committee headed by Sisters Brader and Rickards. The lodge expresses its appreciation to all who assisted in making the dance a success. Bomb Falls in Street.

A practice bomb fell from an aircraft and blew a hole in a roadway in Herne Bay (Auckland). No one was injured and no structural damage was done, even a small tree about 10ft. from where the bomb landed being unmarked. The bomb, which weighed only a few pounds, blow a hole 4ft. deep and. about 7in. in diameter in the road, throwing debris high in the air. Some alarm was caused to nearby residents who were in their gardens. An Air Force official said the practice bomb contained only a light explosive charge designed mainly to release smoke and thus mark the fall of the bombs. Though smoke hung about in the still air for some time after the bomb exploded, many residents in the street were not aware that they had won the dubious honour of being in the first bombed area in New Zealand. A board of inquiry into the accident began its sittings yesterday.

Butter Rationing. The amount of butter saved by limiting the consumption of this commodity in New Zealand will be sufficient to give a 2oz„ ration to every man, woman and child in Great Britain for four and a half weeks. This statement was made by the Deputy-Prime Minister, Mr Nash, in an address last night. He said that the British ration of 2oz. of butter was a meagre one and New Zealanders were doing what they could to try to maintain it. That was why butter rationing was introduced in this country. The former British Food Minitser, Lord Woolton, who was now Minister of Reconstruction, had written stating that the introduction of butter rationing anfl„the readiness shown by New Zealand to help was deeply appreciated and a great encouragement to them at home. The people of Britain, said Mr Nash, were going short-of things of which this country had a surplus. New Zealand should be ready to do whatever Britain asked her to do.