LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 64, Issue 1, 12 October 1943, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Applications for 83 tyres and 37 tubes were granted by the Ashburton Tyre and Tube. Rationing Committee last evening.

The returning officers for the Temuka and Mid-Canterbury electorates to-day publish the result of the official counts of votes polled in the recent General Election. These figures are subject to amendment on account of outstanding service votes.

Sunday school anniversary services will be held at Willowby, Ealing and Waterton during the coming quarter, it was announced at the quarterly meeting of the Willowby Methodist Circuit. Trust collections will be held at Hinds and Tinwald. A youth report was given by Miss MAM. Dill.

Eulogistic reference to the 40 years’ service as a teacher of Mr E. S. Chambers, of New Brighton, a former headmaster of the Allenton School, was made by the Allenton School Committee. The secretary was instructed to convey these sentiments to Mr, Chambers.

The following message has been sent by the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. P. Fraser) through Mr Wang Feng (Consul-General for China) to Marshal Chiang Kai-shek on the occasion of his inauguration as President of the National Government of China: “The Government and people of New Zealand extend their wannest congratulations to you on your inauguration as President of the Chinese Republic. We have watched with distress the miseries of China’s peoples, and with admiration their refusal to submit, in spite of heavy odds. But the reward of China’s sacrifices will be assured by the vigour of her. own arms, joined with those of the forces of the United Nations ”-~P.A.

Compulsory saving was Imposed by the Chief Justice, Sir Michael Myers in the Supreme Court, Wellington, on Thursday, on a youth, who, although earning about £6 a week, broke into an office. He is to live on £2 10s a week for tlie next three years. “A youth of 18 whb is earning £ 6 a week has no need to go breaking into other people’s premises with a view to stealing their money,” his Honor said. “The trouble probably is you have had too much money, too much money for your own good, and you have simply wasted it and then decided to get more, and this is your method of trying to get it.” Prisoner was granted probation for three years on condition that he gave an order on his wages for all in excess of £2 10s a week to be paid to tlie probation officer for payment into a National Savings Account in the joint names of the probation officer and the youth, the probation officer to have discretion to pay the youth more if it was required for legitimate purposes, and to pay the amount saved to him at the end of the probation period.

There lias been no change in the condition of Plight-Sergeant H. A. Boniface, who was reported yesterday to be dangerously ill as a result of injuries to his back received when he was knocked down by a motor-car in East Street on Sunday evening.

A Napier taxi driver made a special trip to Palmerston North, the beginning of this week to purchase a 1938 model car. After the transaction had been carried out he took the car round to a well-known hotel, leaving it outside while he carried his luggage into the building. Although he was absent for only three minutes the car was missing when he again came out of the building.

“The sooner the Education Act is reconstructed and re written the better for education generally in New Zealand,” said the chairman, Mr G. A. Maddison at a. meeting of the Hawke’s Bay Education Board. He Quoted the fact that if a teacher is absent for four days, five days’ wages are deducted. If the teacher is absent five days, the deduction is seven days’ wages. “There is no rhyme or reason in it,” he said. “The whole thing is stupid.”

“I believe all our schools should have assembly halls,” said Dr. J. D. Salmond, in an address on “Christian Order and Education” at Dunedin on Friday. “A school assembly hall plays an important part in educating the emotions of our young people in inculcating in them that community feeling which is so essential if society is to hold together.” After the war, he added, s there should be enough military buildings available to provide all schools with assembly halls.

The presentation by the Danish Association in New Zealand of an ambulance to the Royal New Zealand Air Force was made in Parliament grounds on Sunday afternoon. The Dominion president of the association, Mr C. Langkilde, of Auckland, made the presentation, stating that he hoped the ambulance would get very little use. Accepting the vehicle on behalf of the Government, the Minister of Defence (the Hon. F. Jones) said the gift was a sign of the donors’ humanitarian feeling, and it was appreciated because the Air Force had already, been greatly expanded. It would be a reminder to members of the Air Force that Denmark was still in the hands of the aggressor, and they would not relax till the military might of their enemies was totally destroyed.—P.A.

No special supplies of honey to cover medical certificates will be issued to grocers after October 30, said the Acting-Director of Internal Marketing (Mr R. P. Fraser) yesterday. As at pi'esent, honey would be distributed regularly to all grocers in Auckland and Wellington, and in accordance with the scheme which they had voluntarily adopted' they would continue to give priority of supply to persons, and invalids. However, the whole method by which they distributed their allocations to the public was left to the discretion of the individual grocers, said Mr Fraser. They would be unable to guarantee supply, but the public could rest assured that, as in the past, they would do their best for the most deserving cases.-—P.A.