LOCAL AND GENERAL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL

Christmas Carols. The Masterton Municipal Band will present a programme of Christmas carols interspersed with light dance music in the band rotunda at the Masterton Park tomorrow night, commencing at 7.15 o'clock. Onion for Influenza. A correspondent writes as follows to the Christchurch “Press”: —“Eating raw onion will save anyone from influenza. I cut a slice and nibble at it through the day, and since I knew' I have never had influenza. Before, I never by any chance escaped. I was in New York, long ago, during a terrible visitation. Many died from it. After it was over there were articles in the papers, saying how astonished the doctors were at having no cases from a low, marshy, poor quarter, where they had expected high mortality. They found the place was planted with onions and tjie people were living on them and eating them raw. The raw onion had made them immune from the infection.” Hampers for Seamen. On Monday the Navy League Committee in Masterton packed and forwarded two hampers of cakes, biscuits, tinned food, etc., to the Mission to Seamen in Wellington, as a contribution to the Christmas festivities provided by the Mission for all seamen who are in port during the Christmas season. For donations to the hampers, the committee wish to thank the following:— Lady Perry, Mesdames H. Mawley, S. R. Gawith, P. J. Borthwick, H. J. W. Lord, H. M. Boddington, O. A. Bunny, G. C. Williams, R. C. Drummond, H. Coom, W. H .Robieson, T. Jordan, G. Beard, Hugh Beetham, W. G. Lamb. D. Buchanan, the Misses Cameron, J. McLaren, Dakin, A. Sellar, J. Sellar, E. S. Heckler, and the anonymous donors of several gifts. Navy League and Schools. The school membership of the Navy League in Masterton in 1943 numbered 500, including the following schools:— Solway College 95 members, St. Matthew’s College 78, Lansdowne School 50, Hadlow Preparatory School 39, Te Ore Ore School 35, Newman School 27, Kopuaranga School 26, Tinui School 25, Fernridge School 23, Bideford School 22, Mauriceville West School 18, Alfredton School 15, St. Bride’s Convent 13, Ngahape School 10, Te Whiti School 7, Putara School 5, Masterton West School 4. miscellaneous 8. Six schools had 100 per cent membership—Bideford and Ngahape for the first time, and so gained flags, and Tinui for the second time, gaining a pennant. St. Matthew’s, Hadlow and Kopuaranga maintained their 100 per cent membership and gained a second star on their pennants.

Food at Holiday Resorts. “People spending their holidays at beach resorts and other holiday places are able to procure sugar and butter, from any licensed retailer by using the emergency coupons of Sheet 13 of the current ration book,” said the Food and Rationing Controller, Mr J. E. James, yesterday. “Full instructions concerning the procedure are set out in the book.” Retailers in such places are able to draw butter from their normal suppliers in such quantity as they may estimate they will .require to fill the increased demands of holiday custom, and customers will therefore be assured of obtaining their requirements. The procedure for the retailer is straightforward providing he collects the emergency coupons from his customers in the normal way. He will check up every four weeks with his supplier with these coupons. Sugar will also be obtainable at the resorts by use of the emergency, Sheet 13, coupons. Reserve stocks of both tea and sugar may be held by the retailer to meet such demands as may be met during the holidays. I

Swimming Events. The following events will be contested by the Masterton Swimming Club tonight:—Junior boys, 25yds and 50yds freestyle; junior girls, 25yds and 50yds I freestyle; intermediate boys, 75yds free- ; style; intermediate girls, 50yds free- : style; ladies, 50yds freestyle; men, 100 ■ yds freestyle. Dives for all grades. Waste Paper Collection. The usual free waste paper collection throughout the business area of 1 Masterton will be made on Thursdays in lieu of Mondays in the two weeks following Christmas Day and New • Year’s Day. Thief Sentenced. “You were in a position of trust and ; proved yourself unworthy of it,” said Mr Justice Kennedy in sentencing Leo ' Robert Higgins, aged 43, formerly clerk of the court at Gore, to six months’ reformative detention for the theft of , sums totalling £2lB 18s 6d from the Justice Department. Work on Waterfront. It is expected that the waterside workers in Wellington and Auckland will resume normal hours of work as , a result of the recent conferences in . Wellington, said Mr R. E. Price, chairman of the Waterfront Control Commission, who is in Auckland. Mr Price said the conferences had been between the Government, the national executive of the New Zealand Waterside Workers’ Union, and the commission. Land Sales Committee. Theo Wellington Land Sales Rural Committee reserved its decision oh Friday in the case of an application by Lizzie Spencer for approval of the sale of a house property in First Street, Lansdowne, at a price of £1240 to Helen Kate Malmo. Both the vendor and purchaser were agreeable to the price. The committee has approved of the sale of the property at £llBO, a reduction of £6O on the contract price. Child’s Body Found. The body of a male European child believed to have been between five and 10 days’ old was found by a railway surfaceman nine feet out from the railroad track and three and a quarter miles north of Mangaweka on Monday afternoon. The body, which was naked, was that of a well-nourished child with dark hair and sharp features. As the railway line is a considerable distance from the nearest road there is a possibility of the body having been thrown from a train. As yet it is not known whether the child was dead when left where the body was found. Electric Power Plants. Shortage of electric power was referred to in a report by the chairman, Mr R. N. White, at a meeting of the Waitemata Electric Power Board on • Monday. The report said the Minister of Works, Mr Semple, had undertaken to recommend to the War Cabinet the installation of two power plants, each ; of 30,000 k.w., one at Auckland and one at Wellington. The Minister undertook further to advise the supply authorities association of Cabinet’s decision at an < early date. i Visit to Buchanan Home. J The St. Vincent de Paul Society made ] its annual visit' to the Buchanan Home ] at Greytown last night, providing • the ; inmates with an excellent programme < of musical items which were greatly 1 appreciated. Those who contributed to j the programme were Mr Harry Hall, t Misses M. Stilburn, N. Doyle, M. Hou- 1 rigan, Whetton, Catherall, Patty Turner 1 and V. Saunders. The accompaniments 1were played by Miss Nee. The society f, provided morning tea for the inmates 1 today. The visitors were entertained I at supper prior to returning home. c